Foojay.io, the Friends Of OpenJDK!
The podcast of foojay.io, a central resource for the Java community’s daily information needs, a place for friends of OpenJDK, and a community platform for the Java ecosystem — bringing together and helping Java professionals everywhere.
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 76
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
DevBcn Report, Part 2 – Spanish Knowledge Sharing (#77)
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.…
DevBcn Report, Part 1 – Learn from the Community (#76)
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 …
JCON Report, Part 4 - Tips and Tricks for Java Devs (#75)
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," "E…
JCON Report, Part 3 - AI, ChatGPT, LLM, ML, RAG, MCP, GenAI, and more! (#74)
Let's have an AI Bingo and talk about ChatGPT, LLM, ML, RAG, MCP, GenAI, and more!
This is part 3 of the interviews recorded at the JCON conference in May. In the previous parts, you learned more abou…
JCON Report, Part 2 – Evolutions in the Java Language and Runtime (#73)
In the second part of our JCON interviews, recorded at the conference in May, we focuses on general evolutions within the Java world and how they influence how we write code and develop applications.…
JCON Report, Part 1 - Grow your career, public speaking, 30 years of Java, greener coding,... (#72)
On May 13th and 14th, Foojay attended the JCON conference in Köln, Germany, where we did over 30 live-stream interviews. In this episode, we present to you the first set of these interviews, in which…
Celebrating 30 Years of Java with James Gosling (#71)
We are celebrating Java's 30th anniversary this May!
This is a very special anniversary episode of the Foojay Podcast! As we approach May 23rd, marking exactly 30 years since Java's first beta release…
Celebrating 5 Years of Foojay! (#70)
On April 25, 2020, Geertjan Wielenga published the first Foojay post. Yes, we are celebrating 5 years since the Friends Of OpenJDK website launch! Today, more than 1,600 posts are on the site, writte…
All Things Java at VoxxedDays Amsterdam (#69)
On April 3rd, the first VoxxedDays event in Amsterdam took place. VoxxedDays are tech events organized by local community groups, with support from the Devoxx team. Geertjan Wielenga brought along a …
Welcome to OpenJDK (Java) 24 (#68)
We serve you a podcast about the new Java version every six months.
Our regular guest, Simon Ritter, Deputy CTO of Azul, is known on social media as "speakjava." He is part of the OpenJDK vulnerabilit…
Writing a book. Does it make you rich and famous? (#67)
Let me share a personal story. I started experimenting with Java on a Raspberry Pi about five years ago and blogged a few articles about it. But the more I experimented, the more I wrote down, and ev…
Let's Talk About Java Code! Diving into Foojay blog posts... (#66)
In this Foojay podcast, we dive into a few articles that were published recently and focus on code. Igor Kulakov of JetBrains gives us his insights into the tool he created to find duplicate content …
Boost Your Career in 2025! (#65)
With the first Foojay podcast of 2025, we want to help you to boost your career! By now, you've likely had your year-end performance review with your manager and set some goals to advance in the comi…
Interviews at JFall about opensource, OpenJDK evolutions, Project Loom, JVM,... (#64)
Let's wrap up this year with more interviews from the JFall conference. In this episode you'll learn more about Foojay, JVM internals and writing your own programming language, Project Loom and struc…
How do we keep our Java applications up to date and secure (#63)
Last month, I published a Foojay blog post about the risks in systems that are stuck on old or outdated Java versions and got a lot of feedback from developers. Most of them want to move on but get s…
Better Coding with AI: Friend or Enemy? (#62)
AI, LLMs, ChatGPT—these are just a few of the buzzwords of the massive revolution unfolding right now. These tools are reshaping how we work, but they come with a catch: while they help us work faste…
As a developer, how do we keep our body and mind healthy? (#61)
Foojay Podcast published in November 2024
All info, show notes, and links: https://foojay.io/today/category/podcast/
At Devoxx and JFall, we talked with Georgios Diamantopoulos, Lutske de Leeuw, To…
Proud Of Belgium: Devoxx, JobRunr, Timefold, OpenJDK Mobile, OpenJFX, Thymeleaf, htmx (#60)
Belgium might be tiny, but we have a strong Java Community! As I was doing interviews at Devoxx in October, I met several of these people, and we talked about their projects, how you can get involved…
DevRel Explained and How to Become a Conference Speaker
What do people who have Developer Relations as their job description do? And how do you become a conference speaker? You'll learn in this Foojay podcast!
At Devoxx in Belgium, I got to talk to Josh L…
How Java Developers Can Secure Their Code (#58)
Three years after Log4Shell caused a significant security issue, we still struggle with insecure dependencies and injection problems. In this podcast, we'll discuss how developers can secure their co…