Matt and Richard talk again about the mess that is Java versions, plus a bit about what we're working on and what's coming next at Virtual Pair Programmers

Richard came into the office this morning in a real mood, had a rant, and so we decided to do a podcast today! It's all about Apache Spark this time.

It's been a while but the latest podcast is now here... just after the official releaes of Java 11. Find out whether Java 11 is worth paying for, and whether you should be rushing to upgrade. We'll also mention what we're working on (SparkSQL and Spark Machine Learning)...

Java news - will Oracle sue us for using the Java name? Java 10 is live with a big new feature (local variable type inference) and JavaEE is now JakartaEE.

Plus some talk about upcoming courses - Kotlin Programming and Kubernetes.

Should VirtualPairProgrammers do more front end work, particularly JavaScript frameworks like Angular (A: yes)

Here's the link to the survey we discuss: The State of Java in 2018

Matt’s alone in the studio today – Richard is busy working on updating our courses, so Matt took the opportunity to interview Jon Humble, principle engineer at Sky Betting and Gaming. Find out about the technology stack Jon uses to support systems dealing with huge volumes of data and how they decide whether to use Scala or Java for different jobs.

 

Our special guest for this podcast is Matt Wood from IT recruitment firm www.fruitionit.co.uk/

Matt and FruitionIT run "The JVM Thing", a community of Java Full stack developers - twitter.com/The_JVM_Thing

What Java/JVM Stack skills are in demand?

Matt and Rich get round the fireside to talk about anemic domain models, and discuss the news of a proposal to include data classes in Java.

In this episode Richard attempts to break the world record for the uses of the word "exactly" within an hour. He won't be saying it again next time around.

Hacker News discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15606250

Proposal: cr.openjdk.java.net/~briangoetz/amber/datum.html

Martin Fowler's Paper: www.martinfowler.com/bliki/AnemicDomainModel.html

 

Richard and Matt talk about their previous experience with UML and wonder if it still has a relevance for modern Agile projects.

Despite Matt's valiant attempts, Richard fails to have a rant this week. But, he does manage to somehow squeeze in a reference to the "Comprehensive Super Mario Bros. Disassembly" which is quite an achievement on a UML talk (gist.github.com/1wErt3r/4048722).

We had a faulty microphone on this podcast so we're sorry about the sound quality - will be improved next time!

Matt and Rich run through what they think are the exciting features of Java 9, but they're not allowed to mention Jigsaw.

What will Richard find to moan and rant about most this week? Java's new genius numbering system? Or people who want to keep their lists mutable?

This week Richard has a rant about everybody's favourite design pattern. You won't believe which one it is. This podcast is slightly more entertaining than the Gang of Four book. Even Grady Booch gets a mention!