A Java Geek weekly 4

Twitter Lost Over 600 Million visitors in September

Despite my long investment in Twitter, I’m experiencing the exact definition of Schadenfreude.

Beyond Loom: Weaving new concurrency patterns. VirtualThreads, structured concurrency, and scoped values in Java 21

Mandatory read for JVM developers.

Rethinking job ads. Why most job ads today are rather pointless

A two-part series:

We invested 10% to pay back techdebt; Here’s what happened

Apart from the usual comments on tech debt, the author mentions how they implemented tech debt repayment in their organization.

NGINX Modules Can Now Be Written in Rust

Amazing news, even if foundations are not stable yet.

Public Money, Public Code

Why is software created using taxpayers’ money not released as Free Software?

We want legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software licence. If it is public money, it should be public code as well.

Code paid by the people should be available to the people!

A case for sanity!

Was Rust Worth It? From JavaScript to Rust, three years in

Though I do love Rust, it’s good to hear feedback from people using it in production at scale.

How to Generate Unique IDs in DistributedSystems: 6 Key Strategies

Handy list with pros and cons.

Maximizing Scalability - Apache Kafka and Open Telemetry

Despite the post being a bit too shallow, adding unnecessary Kubernetes complexity and having a typo in the code, the message is important: multiple layers of OpenTelemetry Collectors make sense.

Nicolas Fränkel

Nicolas Fränkel

Developer Advocate with 15+ years experience consulting for many different customers, in a wide range of contexts (such as telecoms, banking, insurances, large retail and public sector). Usually working on Java/Java EE and Spring technologies, but with focused interests like Rich Internet Applications, Testing, CI/CD and DevOps. Also double as a trainer and triples as a book author.

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