Foojay Podcast #33: J-Fall Report, Part 1

A Java conference hallway is where the real conversations happen, so we brought the microphones to one. We set up a Foojay Broadcast Room right in the entrance of the Pathé cinema in Ede, in the middle of J-Fall. Speakers and attendees walked by, sat down, and shared what they care about in Java right now. Our guests in this first round are Brian Vermeer, Pratik Patel, Grace Jansen, Mark van der Walle, Ko Turk, Ionut Balosin, and Deepu Sasidharan, in Foojay Podcast #33.

What we talked about

• The J-Fall conference and its community
• How the Java language keeps evolving
• Cloud-native Java applications
• FinOps and keeping cloud spend under control
• EcoOps, sustainability, and green engineering
• Passkeys and modern authentication

What stood out

Seven guests, one afternoon, and a clear pattern across the conversations. Java developers care about more than the language itself. Cloud cost, energy use, and user security all sit on the same plate as new language features.

See the Foojay Podcast #33 for all info, shownotes, links, etc.