The Stackd Podcast Kito Mann, Daniel Hinojosa, and Ian Hlavats

Overview
Kito and Danno welcome Edwin Derks, a fellow Java Champion, MicroProfile and Jakarta EE contributor, and Principal Consultant at Team Rockstars IT, as their special guest. They delve into the new Jakarta Data specification, explore the Eclipse Starter for Jakarta EE, and discuss integrating JMS with Kafka. The conversation then shifts to the resurgence of server-side rendering (SSR) for web applications, the latest enhancements in Angular, and the impact of ElementInternals support in Safari for building HTML form-friendly and accessible Custom Elements. They also cover updates on Kotlin, JDK 22, Google’s innovative #AI Generative Interactive Environments (Genie), and energy-hungry LLMs and water, alongside discussions about high-profile security breaches and Edwin's journey into open-source contributions.
About Edwin Derks
Principal Consultant, Team Rockstars IT
Solving complex and strategic IT challenges is my passion. I've helped many customers modernize their software stack, increase their software release processes, and adopt cloud infrastructure. In these projects, I've also been building teams and coaching colleagues to realize the right and innovative solutions for the task at hand.
Having a Java developer background, I specialize in Java-related software solutions. As a Java Champion, I'm passionate about gathering and sharing knowledge about anything related to the Java ecosystem and cloud-driven development in general. Therefore, I’m a contributor to open-source projects MicroProfile and Jakarta EE. I'm also a fervent and regular conference speaker, learning and sharing knowledge. In my spare time, I can often be in the gym or have a good time at dance parties or metal concerts.
Global and Industry News
Server Side Java
 - Jakarta EE 11 lookout 
 - Jakarta Data (https://github.com/jakartaee/data)
 - Eclipse Starter for Jakarta EE (https://start.jakarta.ee/)
 - Is Server Side Rendering (SSR) dead or alive? Is one of the two options preferred? ;)
 - JMS Client for Confluent Platform (https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/clients/kafka-jms-client/index.html)
 - Old school Java EE descriptors (https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/mrel/jsr077/index.html)
Frontend 
 - Angular Developer Survey 2023 (https://blog.angular.io/angular-developer-survey-2023-86372317c95f)
 - ElementInternals and Form-Associated Custom Elements (https://webkit.org/blog/13711/elementinternals-and-form-associated-custom-elements/)
Tools
 - Kotlin 2.0 Beta 3 (https://kotlinlang.org/docs/whatsnew-eap.html)
AI/ML
 - LLMs: our future overlords are hungry and thirsty (https://microservices.io/post/generativeai/2023/10/09/our-future-overlords-are-hungry-and-thirsty.html)
 - Genie: Generative Interactive Environments (https://sites.google.com/view/genie-2024/home)

Java Platform
 - JDK 22 Update (https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk/22/)
Security
 - Mother of All Breaches Exposes 773 Million Emails, 21 Million Passwords (https://gizmodo.com/mother-of-all-breaches-exposes-773-million-emails-21-m-1831833456)
 - UnitedHealth hackers say they stole 'millions' of records, then delete statement (https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/unitedhealth-hackers-say-they-stole-millions-records-then-delete-statement-2024-02-28/)
Picking Edwin’s brain
Developer career and what to do with it
 - Developer Career Masterplan: Build your path to senior level and beyond with practical insights from industry experts (https://www.amazon.com/Developer-Career-Masterplan-practical-insights-ebook/dp/B0CFLBHZXZ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3BGLOBFO11D0X&keywords=developer+career+masterplan&qid=1694763002&sprefix=developer+career+masterplan%2Caps%2C158&sr=8-1)
 - Jakarta EE Application Development - Second Edition: Build enterprise applications with Jakarta CDI, RESTful web services, JSON Binding, persistence, and security (https://www.amazon.com/Jakarta-Application-Development-applications-persistence/dp/1835

Overview
Kito, Josh, Danno are joined by microservices guru, author, and Java Champion Chris Richardson. They discuss spring-boot-testjars, Jakarta EE 11, OpenRewrite, Chris’ Eventuate project, microservice architecture patterns, Kafka, Repanda, AI and software development, the early days of cloud computing and Spring, and much more.
About Chris Richardson
Chris is a software architect and serial entrepreneur. He is a Java Champion, a JavaOne rock star and the author of POJOs in Action, which describes how to build enterprise Java applications with frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. Chris was also the founder of the original CloudFoundry.com, an early Java PaaS for Amazon EC2.
Today, he is a recognized thought leader in microservices and speaks regularly at international conferences. Chris is the author of the book Microservice Patterns.
Chris helps organizations improve agility and competitiveness through better software architecture.
He delivers consulting and training that helps organizations successfully adopt and use the microservice architecture.
Chris is the founder of a startup that is creating a platform that simplifies the development of transactional microservices.
He maintains a comprehensive set of resources for learning about microservices.
Global and Industry News
 - Google layoffs 2024: Hundreds of employees on hardware, engineering teams lose jobs  https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/01/12/google-layoffs-2024/72201031007/

Server Side Java
 - CVE-2024-22233: Spring Framework server Web DoS Vulnerability (https://spring.io/blog/2024/01/22/cve-2024-22233-spring-framework-server-web-dos-vulnerability)
 - GitHub - spring-projects-experimental/spring-boot-testjars (https://github.com/spring-projects-experimental/spring-boot-testjars)
 - Jakarta EE 11 Update (https://jakarta.ee/specifications/platform/11/)
 - Tomcat migrator (https://github.com/apache/tomcat-jakartaee-migration)
 - OpenRewrite (https://docs.openrewrite.org/)
 - Eventuate (https://eventuate.io/)
 - Transactional Outbox pattern (https://microservices.io/patterns/data/transactional-outbox.html)
 - Enterprise Integration Patterns (https://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/)
  - https://www.google.com/books/edition/Enterprise_Integration_Patterns/qqB7nrrna_sC?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover
 - Redpanda (https://redpanda.com/)
AI/ML
 - LLMs: our future overlords are hungry and thirsty (https://microservices.io/post/generativeai/2023/10/09/our-future-overlords-are-hungry-and-thirsty.html)
Java Platform
 - The One Billion Row Challenge - Gunnar Morling (https://www.morling.dev/blog/one-billion-row-challenge/)
Picks 
 - jChampions Conf Recordings (Josh) (https://www.youtube.com/@JChampionsCon)
 - TV Show: Young Sheldon (Kito) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6226232/)
Other Pubhouse Network podcasts 
 - OffHeap (https://javaoffheap.com)
 - Java Pubhouse (https://javapubhouse.com)
Events
 - Devnexus 2024 - April 9-11 - Atlanta, GA, USA (https://devnexus.org/)
 - Great International Developer Summit - April 23-26th - Bangalore, India (https://developersummit.com/)
 - JNation 2024 - June 4-5th - Coimbra, Portugal (https://jnation.pt/)
 - dev2next
 

Kito Mann, Josh Juneau and special guest Grace Jansen, Java Champion and Advisory Developer Advocate at IBM, chat about Broadcom’s Acquisition of VMWare, Jakarta EE 11 and the revamped Jakarta EE tutorial, Lit 3.0, JoinFaces, Liberty Tools for IntelliJ, JetBrains AI Service, Quarks and LangChain4J, and JDK 22. They also pick Grace’s brain about how she got into IT, developer advocacy, getting an MBA, mentoring women in tech, and more.
About Special Guest Grace Jansen
Grace Jansen is a Java Champion, Software Engineer and Advisory Developer Advocate at IBM. Her interests include Java, open source, cloud technologies and developer experience. Especially excited about driving more diversity and inclusivity in the tech industry.
Global and Industry News
 - Broadcom Acquisition - VMWare Complete (https://investors.broadcom.com/news-releases/news-release-details/broadcom-completes-acquisition-vmware)

Server Side Java
 - Jakarta EE 11 (https://jakarta.ee/specifications/platform/11/)
 - New Jakarta EE Docs Live (https://jakarta.ee/learn/docs/jakartaee-tutorial/current/index.html)
 - Ways to contribute to Jakarta EE (https://youtu.be/VdJ-H2VNusw?si=OdybmgW6y80P7cfl)
Frontend 
 - Lit Launch Day: Lit 3.0, Labs graduations, a compiler and more! (https://lit.dev/blog/2023-10-10-lit-3.0/)
 - JoinFaces (http://joinfaces.org/)
Tools
 - Kotlin Advent of Code:  (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlFc5cFwUnmzk0wvYW4aTl57F2VNkFisU)
 - Java Advent Calendar (https://www.javaadvent.com/calendar)
 - JakartaOne Livestream on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_FqLnyGQEY&list=PLutlXcN4EAwDNN2lVNlfV3u2rBvJMOFCn)
 - Liberty Tools for IntelliJ (https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/14856-liberty-tools
 - Apache Netbeans 20 Released (https://github.com/apache/netbeans/releases/tag/20)
 - JetBrains AI Service and In-IDE AI Assistant (https://www.jetbrains.com/ai/)
AI/ML
 - LangChain4J (https://github.com/langchain4j/langchain4j)
 - When Quarkus meets LangChain4j (https://quarkus.io/blog/quarkus-meets-langchain4j/)
Java Platform
 - JDK 22 (https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk/22/)
Picks 
 - SnagIt (https://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.html)
 - VisionOS Developer Tools (https://developer.apple.com/visionos/)
Other Pubhouse Network podcasts 
 - OffHeap (https://javaoffheap.com)
 - Java Pubhouse (https://javapubhouse.com)
Events
 - FOSDEM - 3-4 Jan 2024 (https://fosdem.org/2024/)
 - Codemash - Jan 9-12, 2024, Sandusky, OH, USA (https://jchampionsconf.com/https://codemash.org/)
 - Geekle Java Dev Summit - Jan 16-17, 2024, online (https://events.geekle.us/java24/)
 - VoxxedDays Cern - Jan 22nd-23rd, 2024, Switzerland (https://cern.voxxeddays.com/)
 - JChampionsConf - Jan 25-30, 2024, online (https://jchampionsconf.com/)
 - Jfokus - Feb 5-7 2024, Sweden (https://www.jfokus.se/)
 - VoxxedDays Zurich - 7th March 2024 (https://voxxeddays.com/zurich/)
 - DevNexus - Apr 9-12, 2024, Atlanta, GA, USA (https://devnexus.org/)
 - dev2next Conference - September 30 to October 3, 2024, Lone Tree, Colorado (https://www.dev2next.com/)
 
 

Kito, Josh, and Danno are joined byJava Champion, trainer, NFJS speaker and book author Ken Kousen. They discuss Broadcom’s Pivotal acquisition, layoffs, AI regulation, Kotlin Multi-platform Mobile, Structured Concurrency, Angular 17, Next.js Server Actions, Mockito, LangChain4J, Semantic Kernel, AI tools, and much more.  
About Ken Kousen
Ken is a Java Champion, JavaOne Rock Star, developer, technical trainer, and regular speaker on the No Fluff, Just Stuff tour, as well as the author of the books Making Java Groovy, Modern Java Recipes, Gradle Recipes for Android, Kotlin Cookbook, Help Your Boss Help You, and Mockito Made Clear. He is the President of Kousen IT, Inc., a training company based in Connecticut. 
Blog (https://kousenit.org/)
Tales from the jar side (https://kenkousen.substack.com)
Tales from the jar side - YouTube (https://youtube.com/@talesfromthejarside)
Global and Industry News
 - What the hell is going on with the layoffs? ()
 - AI is already linked to layoffs in the industry that created it | CNN Business (https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/04/tech/ai-tech-layoffs/index.html)
 - U.S. AI Chips Export Controls - How is that relevant
 - Updated October 7 Semiconductor Export Controls (https://www.csis.org/analysis/updated-october-7-semiconductor-export-controls)
 - Analysis: AI summit a start but global agreement a distant hope | Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/technology/ai-summit-start-global-agreement-distant-hope-2023-11-03/)
 - Three things to know about the White House's executive order on AI (https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/30/1082678/three-things-to-know-about-the-white-houses-executive-order-on-ai/)
 - Broadcom’s acquisition of VMWare and Pivotal (https://investors.broadcom.com/news-releases/news-release-details/broadcom-completes-acquisition-vmware)
 
Server Side Java
 - Spring (6.1) and Spring Boot (3.2) releases coming this month
   - https://calendar.spring.io/
   - New RestClient
 - Kotlin Multi-platform Mobile finally released (https://www.jetbrains.com/kotlin-multiplatform/)
 - Coroutines basics | Kotlin Documentation (https://kotlinlang.org/docs/coroutines-basics.html)
 - JEP 462: Structured Concurrency (Second Preview) (https://openjdk.org/jeps/462)
 - Brian Goetz distaste for async keyword (https://www.infoq.com/articles/java-virtual-threads/)
 - RXJava Marble Diagrams are Best (https://reactivex.io/documentation/operators/flatmap.html)
Frontend 
 - Angular 17 announced (https://blog.angular.io/meet-angulars-new-control-flow-a02c6eee7843)
 - Next.js server actions (https://twitter.com/AdamRackis/status/1717607565260124613)
 - Vitest (https://vitest.dev/)
 - NPM Workspaces (Node 16+) (https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v7/using-npm/workspaces)
 - Deno (https://deno.com/)
Tools
 - AI Assistant in IntelliJ (Copilot Chat in VS Code)
 - GitHub Copilot
 - Sourcegraph Cody
 - Tabnine
 - Canva (several)
 - Descript (several)
 - Claude
 - Wiremock
 - Mockserver
 - https://letmegooglethat.com/
AI/ML
 - Temporary policy: Generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT) is banned - Meta Stack Overflow (https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/421831/temporary-policy-generative-ai-e-g-chatgpt-is-banned?cb=1)
 - Orchestrate your AI with Semantic Kernel | Microsoft Learn (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/semantic-kernel/overview/)
 - OpenAI API and conference
 - LangChain4J (https://github.com/langchain4j/langchain4j)
 - Spring AI (Spring AI Reference) (https://docs.spring.io/spring-ai/reference/)
 - Microsoft announced MS Copilot ($30/user, min 300 employees, yikes)
 - Suno Chirp
 - Descript (https://www.descript.com/)
 - DALL-E 3 release
 - Ars Tecnica - Bing Chat reads Captcha (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/10/sob-story-about-dead-grandma-tricks-microsoft-ai-into-solving-captcha/)
Picking Ken’s Brain
 - Mockito Made Clear coupon code: kkmockito35 → 35% discount (https://pragprog.com/title

Kito, Josh  and Danno have a great discussion with Jeanne Boyarski and cover a few headlines. Jeanne Boyarsky is a Java Champion and has grown from an entry developer to a tech lead. She also volunteers at Coderanch in her free time.
Blog: https://www.selikoff.net/
Author of several Java certification books with co-author Scott Selikoff: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8489218.Jeanne_Boyarsky
Server Side Java
 - Jakarta EE 11 Release Plan/Timeline
https://newsroom.eclipse.org/eclipse-newsletter/2023/august/jakarta-ee-11-next-major-jakarta-ee-update-shaping
Tools
 - NetBeans 20 RC: (https://github.com/apache/netbeans/releases/tag/20-rc1)
 - Oracle VS Code Extension (https://github.com/oracle/javavscode)
 - Writerside - a new technical writing environment from JetBrains. (https://www.jetbrains.com/writerside/)
 - PMD (https://pmd.github.io/)
 - Sonar (https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube/9.9/analyzing-source-code/languages/java/)
AI/ML
 - Oracle Guardian AI Open Source Project (https://github.com/oracle/guardian-ai)
 - GPTZero (https://gptzero.me/)
Java Platform
 - JDK 21 LTS is out! (https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/21-relnote-issues.html)
   - Record Patterns, Virtual Threads, Pattern matching for switch
   - What's new in Java 2023 - examples of new features (https://github.com/dhinojosa/whats-new-java)
 - The Java Playground (https://dev.java/playground/)
Picking Jeanne’s Brain
 - Background
 - Same job for 21 years!?? 
 - What are your favorite Java language features?
 - What attracted you to certification books?
 - Which is the hardest certification?
 - How should Java compete with other languages like Python and JS/TypeScript? Or should it?
 - What do you see from younger developers?

Picks 
 - Buffer.com (Kito) - social media posting app
 - Oracle APEX REST Data Sync (Josh) (https://blogs.oracle.com/apex/post/synchronize-data-from-rest-services-to-local-table-with-no-code-at-all)
Developer Career Masterplan Book (Josh) (https://www.amazon.com/Developer-Career-Masterplan-practical-insights-ebook/dp/B0CFLBHZXZ)
https://www.ticketsource.us/ - free alternative to  eventbrite (didn’t meet all our needs for nyjavasig, but looks promising (Jeanne) (https://www.ticketsource.us/)
 - Wiremock.io (Danno) (https://github.com/dhinojosa/next-gen-testing-tools-java)
Other Pubhouse Network podcasts 
 - Breaking into Open Source (https://www.pubhouse.net/breaking-into-open-source)
 - OffHeap (https://www.javaoffheap.com)
 - Java Pubhouse (https://www.javapubhouse.com)
Events
 - DevOps Vision December  - Dec 4-6, 2023, Clearwater, FL, USA (https://devopsvision.io/)
 - TechLeader Summit - Dec 6-8, 2023, Clearwater, FL, USA (https://techleadersummit.io/)
 - DevRel Experience - Dec 6-8, 2023, Clearwater, FL, USA (https://devrelexperience.io/)
 - ArchConf December - Dec 11-14, 2023, Clearwater, FL, USA (https://archconf.com/)
 - JakartaOne Livestream - December 5, 2023 (https://jakartaone.org/2023/)
 - First Virtual Payara Conference - Dec 14th, 2023 (https://www.crowdcast.io/c/virtualpayaraconference)
 - Codemash - Jan 9-12, 2024, Sandusky, OH, USA (https://jchampionsconf.com/https://codemash.org/)
 - JChampionsConf - Jan 25-30, 2024, online (https://jchampionsconf.com/)
 

Danno and Kito are back for an engaging chat with two Java Champions, who are co-authors of the Visual Recognition Machine Learning API for Java (JSR #318): Frank Grecko (consultant, enterprise architect, NYJavaSIG chairman), and Zoran Sevarac (AI researcher, creator of Neurograph and CEO and Co-founder of Deep Netts). They dive deep into all things AI with the creation of JSR 318, using Java for machine learning, DeepNets, LLMs, Stack Overflow’s OverflowAI, JetBrains’ AI Coding Assistant, Stable Diffusion, ChatGPT, OpenJDK Panama Project, Llma 2, Prompt Engineering, Stable Diffusion, Apache Zeppelin, Tensorboard, H2O.aiI, Spark, Deep Java Library. They also touch on JavaOne’s resident band, the NullPointers, as well as the evolution of the NYJavaSIG, and much more!
We Thank DataDog for sponsoring this podcast!
https://www.pubhouse.net/datadog

Server Side Java
 - Netflix Conductor (https://conductor.netflix.com/)
Tools
 - AI Coding Assistant - IntelliJ IDEs Plugin | Marketplace (https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/20724-ai-coding-assistant)
 - Announcing OverflowAI - Stack Overflow Blog (https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/07/27/announcing-overflowai/)
AI/ML
 - JSR 381: Visual Recognition (VisRec) Specification (https://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=381)
 - JavaVisRec · GitHub (https://github.com/JavaVisRec)
 - Deep Netts (https://www.deepnetts.com/)
   - Community Edition (https://github.com/deepnetts/deepnetts-communityedition)
 - Neuroph (https://neuroph.sourceforge.net/)
Daniel Hinojosa's (https://github.com/dhinojosa/machine-learning-data-pipelines)
 - Jcuda.org: Java bindings for NVIDIA CUDA (http://www.jcuda.org/) 
 - OpenJDK Panama Project (https://foojay.io/today/project-panama-for-newbies-part-1/)
 - Llama 2 - Meta AI (https://ai.meta.com/llama/)
 - Prompt Engineering (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prompt_engineering)
 - Stable Diffusion (https://stability.ai/blog/stable-diffusion-public-release)
 - Open AI (https://openai.com/)
 - Apache Zeppelin (https://zeppelin.apache.org/)
 - Tensorboard (https://www.tensorflow.org/tensorboard)
 - H2O.ai (https://h2o.ai/)
 - Spark (https://spark.apache.org/)
 - Deep Java Library (https://djl.ai/)
 - Comedian Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta over copyright infringement (https://nypost.com/2023/07/10/sarah-silverman-sues-openai-and-meta-for-copyright-infringement/)

Java Platform
 - JDK 21 LTS (https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/21-relnote-issues.html)
   - Record Patterns, Virtual Threads, Pattern matching for switch
Picks 
 - Antora (Kito) (https://antora.org/)
 - GitHub - TheoKanning/openai-java: OpenAI API Client in Java (Frank) (https://github.com/TheoKanning/openai-java)
 - Apache Groovy (Zoran) (https://groovy-lang.org)
 - Worldle - Danno (https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/)
 - Java Almanac (Danno) (https://javaalmanac.io/)
   - Similar: (https://foojay.io/java-20/)
 - Add carets to end of each line in IntelliJ (Danno) (https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/multicursor.html#add-carets-to-the-end-of-each-line-in-the-selected-region)
Other Pubhouse Network podcasts 
 - Breaking into Open Source (https://www.pubhouse.net/breaking-into-open-source)
 - OffHeap (https://www.javaoffheap.com/)
 - Java Pubhouse (https://www.javapubhouse.com/)
Events
 - NYJavaSIG (https://www.javasig.com/)
 - JAX London - Oct 2-5, 2023, London, UK (https://jaxlondon.com/)
 - Devoxx Belgium - Oct 2-6, 2023, Antwerp, Belgium (https://devoxx.be/)
 - Central Ohio Software Symposium - Sep 29 - Oct 1, 2023 Columbus, OH, USA (https://nofluffjuststuff.com/columbus)
 - Northern Virginia Software Symposium - Oct 13-14, 2023, Reston, VA, USA (https://nofluffjuststuff.com/reston)
 - Twin Cities Software Symposium - Oct 20-21, Minneapolis, MN, USA  (https://nofluffjuststuff.com/minneapolis)
Salt Lake Software Symposium - Nov 3-4, 2023, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA (https://nofluffjuststuff.com/saltlakeci