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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...

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 event...

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. Next...

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...

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 Other...

The second edition of the Jalapeño unconference was held in Cancun, Mexico September 13-14. The intention by having it this weekend was to get the Mexican Java community to be able to bring their family for the long weekend since September 15 is a holiday in Mexico. This didn’t really...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and ninety-eight of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week I attended Community Over Code 2025 in Minneapolis. And, as I am writing this, I am in Cancun for this year’s edition of Jalapeño. Jakarta EE 12 moves forward toward the first milestone. We are still in...

Community Over Code is a very community oriented conference, and the 2025 edition was no exception. It is by and for the ASF committers and projects. The usual greeting phrase is not “What is your name?” , “Where are you from?” ,or “Where do you work?”, but rather “What (Apache)...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and ninety-seven of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week I was in Norway for JavaZone 2025 where I presented the talk titled The Past, the Present, and the Future of Enterprise Java. I have done this talk a couple of times, and even if the overall...