Podcasts

InfoQ Java Trends Report 2024 - Discussing Insights with Ixchel Ruiz and Gunnar Morling

In this episode, Ixchel Ruiz and Gunnar Morling sat down with podcast host Michael Redlich, Lead Editor of the Java topic at InfoQ, to discuss the recent publication of the InfoQ Java Trends Report. Topics covered included: the advantages of the Java six-month release cadence; Project Lilliput and compact object headers; nullability in Java; the impact of Python; and the One Billion Row Challenge.

InfoQ Java Trends Report 2023 - Discussing Insights with Mike Redlich

In this episode, Michael Redlich and Daniel Bryant discussed the recent publication of the InfoQ Java Trends Report. Topics covered included the release of Java 21, the adoption of Java virtual threads, the evolution of the Jakarta EE and Spring projects, and the development of community and ecosystems projects.

Lucas Cavalcanti on Using Clojure, Microservices, Hexagonal Architecture and Public Cloud at Nubank

In this episode of the InfoQ podcast, Charles Humble talks to Lucas Cavalcanti about Nubank’s early architectural choices, including starting with Clojure and microservices. They discuss the challenges of using public cloud for financial services in Brazil, Nubank’s use of Alistair Cockburn's Hexagonal Architecture and immutable architecture, and lessons learnt as the startup scaled.

Java’s Project Loom, Virtual Threads and Structured Concurrency with Ron Pressler

In this podcast Ron Pressler, technical lead for Project Loom at Oracle, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Charles Humble to discuss the project and its forerunner Quasar. Topics include the differences between concurrency and parallelism; what virtual threads are; current issues with JVM concurrency; the Loom developer experience; pluggable schedulers; structured concurrency; and more.