Podcasts 102
I love a good Java conversation. Over the years I joined a handful of podcasts as a guest, and since September 2022 I organize, record, edit, and most of the time host the Foojay Podcast. The full archive lives here, one page per episode, with a short summary and a link to the original show notes.
Foojay Podcast #98: The End of JNI Pain, How WebAssembly Is Quietly Replacing Native Libraries in Java
JNI has been the standard answer for calling native code from Java for almost three decades. It also brings most of the headaches anyone who has wrestled with it remembers: brittle …
Foojay Podcast #97: From Scripting Language to AI Powerhouse with BoxLang
If you write Java day to day, the AI tooling conversation often defaults to Python. BoxLang takes a different route. It runs on the JVM, treats AI as a first-class concern, and …
Foojay Podcast #96: Local AWS Development Without LocalStack: Meet Floci, the GraalVM-Powered Alternative
Running AWS services on your laptop usually means waiting for a heavy emulator to boot, watching memory fill up, and hoping the API behavior matches the real cloud. Floci takes a …
Is Your Java App Actually Secure, Or Does It Just Look That Way?
Your Java app passes the build, the tests are green, and the dashboard looks fine. But are the libraries underneath still maintained, or are they quietly collecting …
Foojay Podcast #94: More Than a Blog: How Foojay Connects, Sustains, and Evolves the Java Community
What keeps a developer community alive after six years, and what does it take to stay relevant while AI reshapes how we write code? For Foojay’s sixth anniversary, we …
JCast: Van Commodore 64 tot Java Champion: code begrijpelijk maken
Code only helps people when they can read it, run it, and understand what it does. That same idea applies to documentation, to teaching kids how to program, and to the way …
Foojay Podcast #93: Update Your JDK, Read More Code, and Talk to Your Users: Interviews From VoxxedDays Amsterdam
A hallway at a Java conference often teaches you more than the talks. People share what broke in production, which JDK version finally pushed them off Java 8, and what tools …
Foojay Podcast #92: Java 26 Is Here: What's New, What's Gone, and Why It Matters in 2026
Java 26 lands on March 17 with ten JEPs, a mix of cleanups, performance work, and new language features. Teams running on older LTS releases face a familiar question. What changes …
Foojay Podcast #91: 25 Years of IntelliJ IDEA: The IDE That Grew Up With Java
IntelliJ IDEA launched in 2000 and grew into the daily workbench for millions of Java developers. Twenty-five years later, the IDE still drives how we refactor, debug, and now pair …
Foojay Podcast #90: Highlights of the Java Features Between LTS 21 and 25
Wondering if the jump from Java 21 to Java 25 is worth the effort? Four years of releases stack up to a long list of changes, and picking the ones that actually affect your code is …
Foojay Podcast #89: Quarkus and Agentic Commerce
Picking a Java framework shapes everything from cold-start times to your cloud bill, so it pays to understand what each one optimizes for. We also looked at a question that hits …
Foojay Podcast #88: From Code to Stage: Organizing Conferences and Finding Your Voice as a Speaker
What turns a nervous first-timer into a confident conference speaker? Plenty of developers have a story worth sharing, but the path from idea to stage feels foggy. In this …
The Human Side of Development: Career Growth, Staying Healthy, and Why People Matter More Than AI
Work-life balance often sounds like a slogan, but the day-to-day reality of a developer career rarely fits a clean template. Health, family, growth, and leadership all pull at the …
Foojay Podcast #86: Agents, MCP, and Graph Databases: Java Developers Navigate the AI Revolution
AI tools keep landing on Java teams faster than anyone can evaluate them. The real question is not whether to use them, but how to keep production code reliable when agents start …
Foojay Podcast #85: Code, Community, and Opportunity: Making Tech Accessible for Everyone
Talent shows up everywhere, but the chance to use it does not. Kids in underserved schools, students without a laptop, and developers outside the usual hubs all hit walls the rest …
Foojay Podcast #84: Developing Performant, Cost Efficient, and Eco-friendly Code
Cloud bills keep growing and so does the energy footprint of the software we run. Tuning code often has a bigger impact than chasing a cheaper cloud contract. In this conversation …
Foojay Podcast #83: OpenJDK Evolutions plus Tips and Tricks
Two of Europe’s biggest Java conferences in one autumn brought together developers with very different stories about the platform. We grabbed a few of them between sessions …
Foojay Podcast #82: OpenJDK Projects (Leyden, Babylon, Panama) and TornadoVM
Java keeps picking up speed, and a lot of that momentum comes from a handful of OpenJDK projects most developers have only read about in release notes. Leyden trims startup time, …
Foojay Podcast #81: Maven 4 – The Future of Java Build Automation
Maven powers millions of Java projects, so a major version bump touches almost every team in the ecosystem. Maven 4 brings performance gains, cleaner plugin APIs, and changes to …
Foojay Podcast #80: AI4Devs Interviews – Part 2
The first AI4Devs conference in Amsterdam brought together developers, data scientists, conference organizers, and even a student to share how AI shifts their daily work. We …