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In this Foojay Podcast, we're exploring a critical topic that's becoming increasingly important in our industry: developing sustainable software that is both performant and environmentally friendly.
At the Devoxx and JFall conferences, I had fascinating conversations about how we as Java developers can make a real impact on both our cloud costs and our carbon footprint. And it's interesting to learn how these two goals are often perfectly aligned: what's good for your budget is usually good for the planet too.
We start with Daniel Witkowski. He published an article on Foojay that takes us on a deep dive into performance tuning. He explains why optimizing your code can have a thousand times more impact than saving 30% on cloud costs, and walks us through his journey of turning a simple integer validation challenge into a masterclass on Java performance optimization.
Next, I caught up with Ko Turk, who shares his passion for sustainable engineering and space exploration. He introduces us to Kepler, a tool for monitoring the energy consumption of your applications, and explains how performance optimization naturally leads to sustainability improvements.
Then Ronald Dehuysser, founder of JobRunr, reveals how his open-source job-scheduling library now enables carbon-aware job processing. He explains how JobRunr can automatically schedule non-time-critical jobs to run when renewable energy is most available.
And finally, Jan Ouwens joins us to discuss practical strategies for reducing both costs and CO2 emissions in your applications. He explains why cloud spending is actually a good proxy for your carbon footprint.
00:00 Introduction of topic and guests
02:07 Daniel Witkowski
29:46 Ko Turk
32:46 Ronald Dehuysser
37:36 Jan Ouwens
45:14 Outro
Welcome to another episode of the Foojay Podcast! Just like in the previous episode, I bring you conversations from two of Europe's premier Java conferences - Devoxx in Belgium and JFall in the Netherlands.
At these conferences, I had the opportunity to speak with members of the Java community about topics ranging from the evolution of Java itself to mobile development, performance optimization, and even automotive security.
My first guest is Johan Vos, a Java Champion who takes us on a journey through Java's history - from porting Java to Linux in 1995 to his current work on bringing Java and JavaFX to mobile and embedded devices through the Java On Mobile project.
Then we'll hear from Stephen Chin, author of "The Definitive Guide to Modern Java Clients with JavaFX," who shares insights on building cross-platform client applications and reflects on how his daughter has followed in his footsteps to become a published author and technology educator.
From JFall, Joseph Phillips joins us to discuss Java's evolution, the differences between REST and gRPC, and whether virtual threads have replaced the need for async implementations in modern Java applications.
Next, François Martin walks us through the world of Java performance benchmarking with JMH - the Java Microbenchmark Harness - and explains why it's so valuable for comparing different implementations and optimizing code.
Wouter De Geus shares his inspiring journey from finance and mathematics into Java development, and how his employer, the Dutch Tax Authority, supports open-source contributions and the Java community.
And finally, Roald Nefs demonstrates something truly unique - using Java and the Foreign Function & Memory API to hack into automotive systems, revealing important security considerations for both hardware and software.
Content
00:00 Introduction of topics and guests
02:11 Johan Vos
19:04 Stephen Chin
23:22 Joseph Phillips
27:49 François Martin
33:30 Wouter De Geus
39:33 Roald Nefs
46:29 Outro
In this Foojay Podcast, we're diving deep into some of the most exciting developments happening within the OpenJDK and TornadoVM projects.
At the Devoxx and JFall conferences, we spoke with several speakers and visitors about some of the major themes that are shaping the future of Java development. The first guest is Moritz Halbritter from the Spring Engineering team. He provides us with more insights into Project Leyden and how it's improving Java startup times through ahead-of-time compilation and profiling. We'll learn how Spring Boot developers can already take advantage of these improvements today.
Next, we'll hear from John Cecerralli at Azul about performance optimizations, the evolution from x86 to ARM64 architectures, and how OpenJDK Projects bring improvements to the JVM itself at levels we couldn't achieve before.
Then, Balkrishna Rawool will guide us through the world of vector databases and explain how Java's Vector API from Project Panama is perfectly positioned for AI use cases, despite its development beginning years before the current AI boom.
And finally, we'll meet some of the team members behind TornadoVM - Christos Kotselidis and Michalis Papadimitriou from the University of Manchester - who will explain to us how Java developers can now harness the power of GPUs for AI workloads, running large language models in pure Java without leaving the Java ecosystem. They also explain the connection between TornadoVM and the OpenJDK Project Babylon.
00:00 Introduction of topics and guests
01:58 Moritz Halbritter
* https://www.linkedin.com/in/moritz-halbritter-9301a1b1/
* Project Leyden and how it can already be used with Spring
* Difference between the approach of Project Leyden and CRaC
11:02 John Cecerralli
* https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-ceccarelli-95b7041/
* OpenJDK evolutions in Project Leyden
* Startup time improvements in Azul Prime
* Java performance
* ARM Graviton
17:08 Balkrishna Rawool
* https://www.linkedin.com/in/balkrishnarawool/
* Vector API, project Panama
22:44 Christos Kotselidis, Michalis Papadimitriou
* https://www.linkedin.com/in/michalis-papadimitriou/
* https://www.linkedin.com/in/kotselidis/
* https://www.tornadovm.org/
* https://www.tornadovm.org/gpullama3
* https://github.com/beehive-lab/TornadoVM
* TornadoVM status update, Java on GPU
* How TornadoVM relates to Project Babylon and Project Panama
33:42 Outro
Maven 4 is approaching its release, bringing many improvements to the build tool powering millions of Java projects.
In this Foojay Podcast episode, we talk about Apache Maven 4, a significant milestone that has been years in the making. Maven has been the backbone of Java dependency management and build automation since the early 2000s; however, the road to version 4 has been a long and deliberate one. With significant performance improvements, a modernized API for plugin developers, and changes that affect how we think about project structure, Maven 4 represents both an evolution and a revolution. What does this mean for the millions of developers who depend on Maven daily? How should teams prepare for the transition? And what's the story behind the Maven Central Repository changes that have been making headlines? To answer these questions and more, we're joined by a few of the many contributors who are actually building Maven 4 and stewarding its ecosystem.
Guests
Hervé Boutemy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hboutemy/
Guillaume Nodet
https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillaumenodet/
Maarten Mulders
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mthmulders/
Content
00:00 Introduction of the topic and guests
04:23 Status of Maven 4 release
https://maven.apache.org/whatsnewinmaven4.html
https://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-migration-to-mvn4.html
07:57 Why we needed a new Maven version
https://maarten.mulders.it/2020/11/whats-new-in-maven-4/
https://maarten.mulders.it/2021/03/introduction-to-maven-toolchains/
https://www.javaadvent.com/2021/12/from-maven-3-to-maven-5.html
12:37 You can already start using Maven 4
14:35 Some benefits of switching to Maven 4
18:52 Changes in the pom file, and yes, still XML
20:30 Changes for Maven plugin developers and integrators
22:24 Changes for Maven users, for instance, the need for Java 17
28:34 Maven The Tool versus Maven The Repository
34:51 Reasons for the change in authentication for uploads to Maven Central
36:01 The one and only Maven Central URL to use
https://central.sonatype.com/
38:04 About the very first "server" hosting the Maven repository
40:32 The importance of setting up your own caching repository
https://www.sonatype.com/blog/maven-central-and-the-tragedy-of-the-commons
https://openssf.org/blog/2025/09/23/open-infrastructure-is-not-free-a-joint-statement-on-sustainable-stewardship/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t74ClffSUW0
44:04 The relationship between POM, BOM, BOM-POM , and SBOM
49:43 Gradle versus Maven
57:54 How to contribute to Maven or any other open-source project, and how to get the support of your company to do so
01:05:23 How to upgrade your projects from Maven 3 to 4
https://maven.apache.org/tools/mvnup.html
This is part 2 of the interviews recorded on September 19th, 2025, at the first AI4Devs Conference (https://amsterdam.ai4devs.io/) in Amsterdam. In Part 1, we explored many AI-related topics as libraries, security, infrastructure, use cases, and more. In this second part, we'll dive into data science, tools for better AI development, Java in the cloud, and get a behind-the-scenes look at how the conference came together.
I also asked these guests the same opening question: 'What's your name, and what brings you to this conference?'
00:00 Introduction
00:43 Eileen Kapel
Data Scientist, building an evaluating a model, taking the enduser into account
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eileenkapel/
06:13 Jonathan Ellis and Ryan Svihla
Coding with AI with Brokk, AI-native code platform, Java language improvements while keeping stability
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbellis/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-svihla-096752182/
https://brokk.ai/
https://foojay.io/today/indexing-all-of-wikipedia-on-a-laptop/
16:24 David Parry
Qodo, AI developer tools, empowering engineering teams to standardize code quality and move fast with AI
https://www.linkedin.com/in/daviddryparry/
https://www.qodo.ai/
28:46 Alessandro Stefouli-Vozza
Java in the cloud, Impact of our job on the environment and our future, Green Software Foundation, Dutch Cloud Native meetup and conference
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessandrovozza/
https://cloudnative.amsterdam/
https://greensoftware.foundation/
Article by Miro about energy usage: https://foojay.io/today/research-measuring-energy-consumption-in-programming-languages-for-ai-applications/
35:02 Sushant Shekhar
Using Java and AI, Moved from Java to other languages and back, Building your own models versus tweaking
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sushant-shekhar-2b43ba17/
39:09 Arno Koehler
Organisator, Ai code experiments versus production use, Schiphol POC, Kotlin versus Java versus Scala, The power of the JVM
https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnokoehler/
45:37 Joost Kaan
About organizing the conference, Python and Java driving AI forward
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joost-kaan/
50:45 Coen de Waal, Samantha Burattini, and Luis San Martin
Conference sponsor, Use of AI in a banking environment
https://www.linkedin.com/in/coen-de-waal/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/samantha-burattini/
54:51 Nahir Vila
Student, How the youth is using AI
57:33 Jonathan Vila
AI4Devs Organizer, How the conference started and a lookback at the end of the day, How AI can be used when writing articles
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanvila/
01:05:58 Outro
On September 19th, 2025, the first AI4Devs conference (https://amsterdam.ai4devs.io/) took place in Amsterdam. I grabbed my camera and microphone to talk with speakers and attendees about the revolution in AI-powered coding and application development. In this first part, we'll explore Spring libraries, security, infrastructure and scaling, real-world use cases, event streaming, JetBrains tools, and more...
I asked all my guests the same opening question: 'What's your name, and what brings you to this conference?' Let's get started!
00:00 Introduction
00:44 Christian Tzolov and Josh Long
Spring AI, Spring MCP, Spring Security
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshlong/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tzolov/
17:07 Brian Vermeer
AI and security and the responsibility of the developer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianvermeer/
27:57 Camille Nigon and Maarten Vandeperre
Quarkus, Scaling AI applications, the cost of using LLMs
https://www.linkedin.com/in/camille-nigon/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/maarten-vandeperre/
36:15 Luca Berton
Infrastructure for AI applications
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucaberton/
https://www.youtube.com/@BertonLuca
41:15 Soham Dasgupta
Real life AI use cases
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dasguptasoham/
https://github.com/marketplace?type=models
48:03 Mary Grygleski
Event driven agents to handle complex flows
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-grygleski/
55:04 Anton Arhipov
Java and Kotlin at JetBrains, Junie AI
https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonarhipov/
01:06:07 Outro
Episode 78 of the Foojay Podcast. All info, show notes, and links are available at https://foojay.io/today/category/podcast/.
We're excited to present the first episode of the Foojay Podcast's fifth season, marking the release of OpenJDK 25!
For the first time, an OpenJDK release is aligned with the year, and we can welcome release 25 in 2025. As usual in the release podcast, I have my regular guest, Simon Ritter. And in this episode, we are joined by Balkrishna Rawool to talk about all the new features in this new OpenJDK version.
Guests
Simon Ritter
https://www.linkedin.com/in/siritter/
Balkrishna Rawool
https://www.linkedin.com/in/balkrishnarawool/
Content
00:00 Introduction of topic and guests
01:21 How important is release 25 and upgrading your runtimes?
https://jdk.java.net/25/
06:00 Process of releasing a new OpenJDK version and looking forward to version 26
08:16 What are JEPs and OpenJDK projects
09:20 Project Leyden
https://openjdk.org/projects/leyden/
JEP 514: Ahead-of-Time Command-Line Ergonomics
https://openjdk.org/jeps/514
JEP 515: Ahead-of-Time Method Profiling
https://openjdk.org/jeps/515
11:28 Leyden compared to other solutions
16:21 Project Valhalla
https://openjdk.org/projects/valhalla/
17:06 JEP 519: Compact Object Headers
https://openjdk.org/jeps/519
17:40 JEP 508: Vector API (Tenth Incubator)
https://openjdk.org/jeps/508
18:58 Why Vector API is taking a long time to get finalized
21:04 JEP 502: Stable (Immutable) Values
https://openjdk.org/jeps/502
23:17 Project Loom
https://openjdk.org/projects/loom/
23:30 JEP 506: Scoped Values
https://openjdk.org/jeps/506
24:13 JEP 505: Structured Concurrency (Fifth Preview)
https://openjdk.org/jeps/505
29:22 How Java evolved over 30 years
33:34 Project Amber
https://openjdk.org/projects/amber/
34:28 JEP 507: Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch (Third Preview)
https://openjdk.org/jeps/507
35:59 JEP 512: Compact Source Files and Instance Main Methods
https://openjdk.org/jeps/512
37:36 JEP 511: Module Import Declarations
https://openjdk.org/jeps/511
38:36 JEP 513: Flexible Constructor Bodies
https://openjdk.org/jeps/513
39:12 What's next in Project Amber
43:25 What you can learn from JEPs, OpenJDK projects, and mailing lists
44:21 JEP 521: Generational Shenandoah
https://openjdk.org/jeps/521
Trash Talk by Gerrit Grunwald
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlwDe-hlSdI
48:16 JEP 510: Key Derivation Function API
https://openjdk.org/jeps/510
49:30 JEP 470: PEM Encodings of Cryptographic Objects (Preview)
https://openjdk.org/jeps/470
51:28 About Java Flight Recorder
52:27 JEP 509: JFR CPU-Time Profiling (Experimental)
https://openjdk.org/jeps/509
52:44 JEP 518: JFR Cooperative Sampling
https://openjdk.org/jeps/518
53:15 JEP 520: JFR Method Timing & Tracing
https://openjdk.org/jeps/520
53:38 More about JFR and comparing with GC logs
57:04 JEP 503: Remove the 32-bit x86 Port
https://openjdk.org/jeps/503
58:54 Looking forward to the following versions
01:00:58 Conclusion
This is the first Foojay podcast in Spanish. It's also the shortest one and the final of season 4 ;-) Jonathan Vila "highjacked" the microphone from Geertjan Wielenga (See episode 76, https://foojay.io/today/foojay-podcast-76-devbcn-report-part-1-learn-from-the-community/) during the DevBcn conference in Barcelona and interviewed a few of the participants for this first Spanish-only edition of the podcast.
Stay tuned and subscribe to the podcast in your favorite app or on YouTube. We're taking a short break and will be back in September with the launch of Java 25!
00:00 Introduction
00:39 Marlene Maldonado, DevBcn Organization
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marlene-maldonado-de-s%C3%A1
02:10 Barbara Teruggi, Speaker, Threat Modelling
https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbara-teruggi/
05:04 Santiago Rincon, CFP Member and Attendee
https://www.linkedin.com/in/santiago-rincon-martinez
07:56 Marlene Maldonado, Vicente Soriano, Volunteers
https://www.linkedin.com/in/visomar
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marlene-maldonado-de-s%C3%A1
10:25 Alvaro Navarro, Speaker, API Design
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anavarro
12:37 Vicente Cabanes, Sponsor, Grupo Castilla
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vicente-cabanes/
In early July, the DevBcn conference in Barcelona featured a diverse lineup of speakers, covering topics across multiple technology domains. Geertjan Wielenga took the camera and microphone with him to Spain. Together with Nacho Cougil and Jonathan Vila, two of the organizers, he spoke with many visitors about what they like most in Java, how AI influences their work, and what is important to them in the work they do.
We have more than 20 people who are passionate about the Java community and are eager to share their knowledge with you.
00:00 Introduction
00:45 Nacho Cougil and Jakub Marchwicki talk about the history of the DevBcn conference.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/icougil
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kubamarchwicki
02:45 Bert Jan Schrijver is excited about the people in the Java community.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bjschrijver/
03:06 Ricardo Romero Benítez has a Spanish YouTube challenge about Java and is surprised by the experience of junior developers.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardo-romero-ben%C3%ADtez-b4a4048a/
https://www.youtube.com/@programando_en_java
05:43 Christoph Neumann discusses closure and a database created using it.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christoph-neumann-6089438/
08:03 Victor Rentea gives Java workshops about architecture, performance, maintainable code, etc.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/victor-rentea-trainer/
09:46 Justin Reock measures developer productivity and talks about improving the development experience.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinreock
17:44 Will Fleury accelerates coding by integrating AI in IDEs and compares different solutions.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/willfleury
23:38 Kamesh Sampath handles big amounts of data for AI and other processing.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kameshsampath
26:19 Cedric Clyburn shares his experience with Linux and Kubernetes and is fascinated by open-source AI.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cedricclyburn
28:33 Brian Vermeer helps to make Java applications and AI tools secure.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianvermeer
31:53 Andrey Sitnik promotes local-first privacy versus the user-data-selling approach.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sinik
35:59 Isabel Garrido Cardenas about cognitive load when working with a lot of microservices and the right way of testing with AI.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/isabelgarridocardenas
38:59 Isabella Sohlman is a student, joining the conference to learn how she can grow her career and to meet people from the Java community.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/isabellasohlman
40:13 Ruben Cordeiro shares his experience with volunteering at the conference and what he learned from the talks.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rubencordeiro
42:36 Horacio Gonzalez about simple to use cloud services by developers for developers.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/horaciogonzalez
44:46 Jonatan Sempere about communication and network APIs to prevent fraud for banking.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jsempere95
47:36 Luis Majano and Cris Escobar talk about BoxLang, a new dynamic JVM language.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lmajano
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristobalescobarh
https://www.boxlang.io
59:42 Miguel Xoel García Balsa about observability and the difference with monitoring.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/miguelxoel
01:03:32 Silvia Bellmunt shares her experience with the Java community, the DevBcn conference, and data science.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-bellmunt-36220aa3
01:06:15 Rijo Sam talks about framework- agnostic development, using plain Java as much as possible.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rijosam19
01:09:37 Nacho Cougil and Jonathan Vila invite you to the DevBcn conference next year.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/icougil
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanvila
01:11:33 Outro
This is the final part of the JCON 2025 interviews with a lot of tips and tricks!
In the three previous podcasts, we featured interviews from the JCON conference on "Being a better Java developer," "Evolutions in Java," and "How to use AI with Java." However, we talked to many more people during the conference, so this podcast focuses on tips and tricks. Let's learn from the many other experienced visitors of JCON.
00:00 Introduction
00:34 Merlin Bögershausen - OpenRewrite and Azul Intelligence Cloud
https://www.linkedin.com/in/merlin-boegershausen
07:08 Eberhard Wolff - Measure developer productivity
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eberhardwolff
12:28 Annelore Egger - Dealing with bad code, it's not your fault
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anneloredev
15:21 Michael Vitz - Unexpected things you can do with Java
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelvitz
18:40 Michael Simons - Neo4J database models
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-simons-196712139
https://motherduck.com/duckdb-book-brief
23:13 Stefan Böhringer - Building a project for education from scratch with Quarkus
https://www.linkedin.com/in/datenschauer
28:14 Johannes Rabauer - Learned from earlier projects
https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannes-rabauer
30:33 Roland Weisleder - ArchUnit, testing architecture with unit tests
https://www.linkedin.com/in/roland-weisleder
34:26 Simon Martinelli - htmx, full stack, Vaadin, JOOQ
https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonmartinelli
37:02 Loïc Magnette - Web development, Angular, React, Java community versus others
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lomagnette
40:41 Tanja Obradovic - Eclipse Foundation, JakartaEE
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanja-obradovic-095604
49:19 Syed Usman Ahmad - Grafana, Prometheus, monitoring tools, OpenTelemetry
https://www.linkedin.com/in/usmanlinux
55:38 François Martin - Tools, chaos testing, Toxyproxy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fran%C3%A7oismartin
01:01:31 Conclusion
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