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OffHeap 88. Of Smart Agents that help you code better…or worse?

November 19, 2024 Freddy Guime AI / LLM, Open Source 0 Comments

So Coding Agents are here to stay. And they are hitting everywhere we go! (at a cheap price!). So what do we make of them. Do they help? do they hinder? Do we like using them? or, is it risky to use them? There are now practical questions we ponder with as Github Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Intellij AI Assistant and others are accessible at the click of a button!


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📰 News

💬 Discussion Topic

State of AI and the Developer Experience

🎤 Conferences

  • Jakarta EE Livestream: December 3, 2024
  • jChampions: January 23, 24, 27, 28, 2025
  • DevNexus: March 4-6, 2025

OffHeap 86. Of striking crowds and independence

August 14, 2024 Freddy Guime Microsoft, Open Source 0 Comments

So last time we recorded we still have a running windows operating system and we haven’t seen the Crowdstrike meltdown happen yet. We also hear of JRuby achieving independence, Quarkus moving into CommonHaus and Intel letting go people (are they losing the AI battle?).

An interesting episode, drop in for a listen!

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OffHeap 85. The (Economic?) Future of Open Source?

July 9, 2024 Freddy Guime JCP, Linux, Open Source, Red Hat 0 Comments

Allright, so in the middle of summer, and what better way to fight the summer heat than to have a cold one and talk about tech, right? We got together again and discuss the cool things that are happening (Java 22, Kotlin 2.0), and then we take a detour on looking at what’s happening in the open source space (RedHat prunes Middleware, OCI Stops Funding Grails), and we try to figure out where would it end.

So come and take a listen as we try to read the tea leaves and figure out where open source is going!

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OffHeap 84. DevNexus 2024! (oops, we did it again!)

April 25, 2024 Freddy Guime Uncategorized 0 Comments

Yes! So we are back at THE best conference for Java in the US (DevNexus!) to record a live episode! We had Andy and Sascha talk to us about Quantum security and where the world is heading (spoilers, we better address our security before the quantum boogeyman shows up).

In all, like all DevNexus episode we also have a GAME! Come play with us as well, and see if you can tell if an AI company is real… or fake!

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OffHeap 83. Happy New Year! (and start dusting that resume)

February 22, 2024 Freddy Guime Interviews, Soft Skills, Uncategorized 0 Comments

Hopefully we are all rested and ready to tackle this 2024. There is already a ton going on with AI, but front and center has been the current job market news (it’s dire). Even so, when a new door closes, a new (shiny AI-ish) door opens.

Here we dive into what it means to be an java developer in this job market (should you learn AI’s darling language, python? we ponder), and our collection of tips / tricks to navigate it.

In addition we tackled some of the stuff we learned over the holiday, including the One Billion Row Challenge! (an exciting view of where Java is headed and the things it’s doing). So start on those new year resolutions and let’s get rolling with the new OffHeap episode!

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OffHeap 82. FINALLY JAVA 21 is HERE

November 14, 2023 Freddy Guime Cloud, Microsoft, Open Source, Oracle 0 Comments

Old enough to drink Java 21 is officially released! This is the one we have all been waiting for! With Project Loom, structured concurrency and being the Long Term Support release, this is the beginning of another incredible era for Java and Java development!

So we dive into it and start charting out WHERE does Java fit as we embark in the incredible AI and LLM world (yeah, it’s not a fad… large language models are eating the world and we should get onboard quickly w/it!).

Take a listen, and explore with your most favorite (and usual suspects) the new world of the Java language!

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News
JDK 21
https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/ocw-oracle-releases-java-21-2023-09-19/

Oracle Java Extension for Visual Studio Code
https://inside.java/2023/10/18/announcing-vscode-extension/

Jakarta EE 11 Release Plan and Timeline
https://jakartaee.github.io/platform/jakartaee11/

Microsoft Releases its own distro of Java 21
https://thenewstack.io/microsoft-releases-its-own-distro-of-java-21/

The Java Playground
https://dev.java/playground/?elq_mid=247681&sh=1712819176132226615152131013&cmid=DEVT230612P00024C00004

Google Antitrust Trial
https://time.com/6324490/google-antitrust-trial/

Discussion
Java’s positioning in the latest AI Wave

Conferences
JChampions 2024 Thursday, Jan 25 & Friday, Jan 26 & Monday, Jan 29 & Tuesday, Jan 30, 2024
https://jchampionsconf.com/

JFall Nov 9th:
https://jfall.nl/

JCON World 2023 Nov 21st (Online):
https://world.jcon.one/

DevTernity 2023 12/7-12/8 (Online):
https://devternity.com/

JFokus Feb 5th:
https://www.jfokus.se/

Devnexus April 9 – 11
https://www.devnexus.com

OffHeap 81. Is the guilded age of open source over?

August 15, 2023 Freddy Guime Uncategorized 0 Comments

ElasticSearch, Akka, Hashicorp, and Red Hat are starting to change their licensing models. What used to be considered open source (Apache, GPL, MIT) is morphing (with an asterisk) for the large open source projects that we know and love.

But what does that mean? Is open source over? or are we transitioning to a new reality? Is legislation going to help or hinder (like the EU CRA proposed laws)? Come take a listen as we dive deep into the open source ecosystem and how is it changing right before our eyes!

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Java Specialist Newsletter (hi Dr. Heinz!)
https://www.javaspecialists.eu/

Netbeans 18
https://github.com/apache/netbeans/releases

Corretto is most popular JVM
https://devclass.com/2023/05/02/amazon-now-the-most-popular-java-development-kit-vendor-for-production-according-to-observability-survey/

Layoffs at Redhat
https://wraltechwire-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/wraltechwire.com/2023/04/24/red-hat-cutting-hundreds-of-jobs-ceo-says-in-letter-to-employees/?amp=1, Sonatype https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/10/sonatype_job_cuts/

Videos for KotlinConf 2023
https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2023/05/kotlinconf-2023-recordings/?_ga=2.192371426.99327395.1684372006-290954218.1684372006&_gl=1131l38a_gaMjkwOTU0MjE4LjE2ODQzNzIwMDY._ga_9J976DJZ68*MTY4NDM3MjAwNi4xLjAuMTY4NDM3MjAwNi4wLjAuMA..

SpringOne @ Explore Las Vegas (Aug 21-24)
https://springone.io/

Community Over Code (Apache) in Halifax (Oct 7-10)
https://communityovercode.com/

OffHeap 80. The invasion of the virtual programming robots!

June 26, 2023 Freddy Guime Career, Predictions 0 Comments

It IS time…and everyone is talking about it! With the new Large Language Models like OpenAI and Github Copilot, and Bard (and all the others), what does it mean for developers? Is it an existential threat? a doomsday scenario? or is all being blown out of proportion? Well, we start diving into the question on this episode with the usual suspects! Come, listen to this episode before we are all replaced by generative AI!

(This podcast recording is human certified!)

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Netbeans 18
https://github.com/apache/netbeans/releases

Corretto is most popular JVM
https://devclass.com/2023/05/02/amazon-now-the-most-popular-java-development-kit-vendor-for-production-according-to-observability-survey/

Layoffs at Redhat
https://wraltechwire-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/wraltechwire.com/2023/04/24/red-hat-cutting-hundreds-of-jobs-ceo-says-in-letter-to-employees/?amp=1, Sonatype https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/10/sonatype_job_cuts/

Videos for KotlinConf 2023
https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2023/05/kotlinconf-2023-recordings/?_ga=2.192371426.99327395.1684372006-290954218.1684372006&_gl=1131l38a_gaMjkwOTU0MjE4LjE2ODQzNzIwMDY._ga_9J976DJZ68*MTY4NDM3MjAwNi4xLjAuMTY4NDM3MjAwNi4wLjAuMA..

SpringOne @ Explore Las Vegas (Aug 21-24)
https://springone.io/

Community Over Code (Apache) in Halifax (Oct 7-10)
https://communityovercode.com/

OffHeap 79. DevNexus 2023! With Brian Fox (CTO of Sonatype)

April 27, 2023 Freddy Guime Conference 0 Comments

We are at it again! We went to DevNexus in Atlanta, and we have the WHOLE GANG showing up! It has been great catching up in person and oh boy, there’s so much tech to talk about!

For this episode we have Brian Fox (@Brian_Fox), CTO of Sonatype talk about the importance of security across the supply chain. With new legislation coming regulating security and software pipelines it is the right time to discuss what is our role as developers in this.

An incredibly fun episode, with a quiz at the end (Powered by none other than ChatGPT) is an episode you don’t want to miss!

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OffHeap 78. Starting the year kicking ON Spring! (tee-hee get it?)

February 16, 2023 Freddy Guime Java EE, Open Source, Pivotal 0 Comments

So there it is! We go deep covering the interesting news of Spring Boot 3, and Spring Framework 6… and looking at the BASELINE requirement of Java 17… what does that mean for the industry? Are we now becoming more proactive in upgrading? (or do we still upgrade only when we need to?). This is a great episode where we explore what does it mean to have a high cadence, and what it also means to have our dependencies require an upgrade. We are much more dynamic now!


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