The second edition of dev2next was a fantastic experience. Located in beautiful Colorado Springs and with a speaker lineup other conferences can only dream of, this conference is the place to be. If you only can pick one conference to attend, dev2next should definitely be on your radar. I did...
As the Adoptium Program Manager, I’m thrilled to shine a spotlight on Bloomberg’s journey with us . Their story is a powerful example of what makes our community so special and a clear blueprint for other enterprises using open source Java. Bloomberg, a global leader in financial services, relies on...
Welcome to issue number three hundred and one of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I am now in Colorado Springs waiting for my flight to Orlando. The dev2next conference was an amazing experience. So many great speakers, talks, and conversations. A blog post from the event is coming up shortly. The next...
The results are in! The State of Enterprise Java: 2025 Jakarta EE Developer Survey Report has just been released, offering the industry’s most comprehensive look at the state of enterprise Java. Now in its eighth year, the report captures the perspectives of more than 1700 developers, architects, and decision-makers, a...
Come To Code is a fantastic community event organized by a very dedicated Linux User Group in beautiful Pignola in the south of Italy. Despite the remote location, it gathered 180 eager attendees. This alone is an impressive accomplishment. The conference had two parallel tracks, as well as track dedicated...
Welcome to issue number three hundred of Hashtag Jakarta EE! In the beginning of this week I was in Madrid speaking and attending at Open Source Community Day 2025 before I continued to Italy for Come To Code in Pignola. I will soon publish a post of the last one...
I had the pleasure of being invited to speak at Open Source Community Day 2025 in Madrid. This two-day event gathered attendees and speakers involved in EU research projects all over Europe. It is not my usual crowd, so it was interesting to see how this community works. I must...
A few years ago, I noticed that things were changing in the Eclipse Foundation's (EF) IT operations: we were adding servers, and lots of them. Trays of 3U mega-machines, packing 14 compute units each, with on-board switches, immense fans and drawing much electrical power, providing our community with CPU cycles...
The global software ecosystem runs on open source infrastructure. As demand grows, we invite the businesses who rely on it most to play a larger role in sustaining it. Open source infrastructure is the backbone of the global digital economy. From registries to runtimes, open source underpins the tools, frameworks...
Welcome to issue number two hundred and ninety-nine of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The discussions regarding inclusion of new specifications in Jakarta EE 12 continued in this week’s Jakarta EE Platform call. Jakarta Query and Jakarta NoSQL are the most likely candidates. In addition, potentially fold the Jakarta Debugging Support for...