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Foojay Podcast #102: Why Foojay Walked Away From WordPress for Static Sites

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Six years of WordPress plugin updates, security patches, and slow page loads were enough for me, as I wrote about in The New Foojay.io: Generated by Hugo, Maintained by Java. For Foojay Podcast #102, I talk with Andy Damevin and Holly Cummins, both from the Quarkus team at Red Hat, about that move away from WordPress and various static website generator tools.

Foojay Podcast #101: Java 27 in Practice: Smaller Heaps, Smarter Defaults, and Valhalla on the Horizon

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

JDK 27 arrives on 15 September 2026, and it is a feature release rather than a Long-Term Support one. That distinction matters less than it sounds. As Simon Ritter, Deputy CTO at Azul and a Java Champion, points out, every OpenJDK release is delivered the same way, and “long-term support” is a property of the binary distribution you install rather than of the platform itself. I sit down with Simon for Foojay Podcast #101 to walk through all nine JEPs in the release.

Foojay Podcast #100: Java Podcasters on Why They Started, What Broke, and What They Learned

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Foojay Podcast hits episode 100. No plan, no roadmap, it just happened. To mark the occasion, I turned the microphone around and invited other podcasters from the Java community to answer the same three questions I usually ask my guests: why did you start, what broke, and what did you learn?

Foojay Podcast #99: Testing the Untestable, LLM Security for Java Developers with Tiberius

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Unit testing assumes that the same input gives the same output. Large language models break that assumption on purpose, which leaves Java developers wiring LLMs into their applications without a clear way to test for security issues, bias, or prompt injection. Tiberius is an open-source library that tackles exactly this problem, treating non-determinism as part of the design rather than a bug to work around.

Foojay Podcast #98: The End of JNI Pain, How WebAssembly Is Quietly Replacing Native Libraries in Java

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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 bindings, crashes that take the JVM down with them, painful cross-platform builds. WebAssembly quietly changes the shape of that problem. You get a sandboxed runtime, a portable binary format, and a far gentler integration path into the JVM.

Foojay Podcast #97: From Scripting Language to AI Powerhouse with BoxLang

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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 lets you mix dynamic templating with the libraries you already trust.

Foojay Podcast #96: Local AWS Development Without LocalStack: Meet Floci, the GraalVM-Powered Alternative

Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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 different path. It spins up 35 AWS services in about 25 milliseconds with 13 megabytes of memory, using a single Docker command. In this episode we sat down with Hector Ventura, the creator of Floci, for Foojay Podcast #96.

Is Your Java App Actually Secure, Or Does It Just Look That Way?

Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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 vulnerabilities? In this episode we dig into “zombie dependencies”, the CVE process, and the small habits that make a real difference. I host Steve Poole and David Welch from HeroDevs for Foojay Podcast #95.

Foojay Podcast #94: More Than a Blog: How Foojay Connects, Sustains, and Evolves the Java Community

Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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 gathered a crowd of voices from across the Java world to answer those questions in their own words. We talked with Sharat Chandar, Markus Westergren, Iryna Dohndorf, René Schwietzke, Gerrit Grunwald, Catherine Edelveis, Jago de Vreede, Annelore Egger, Buhake Sindi, François Martin, Dominika Tasarz-Sochacka, and Geertjan Wielenga in Foojay Podcast #94.

JCast: Van Commodore 64 tot Java Champion: code begrijpelijk maken

Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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 developers talk about their work. On JCast, hosts Viktor Van Steenweghen, Oumaima Zerouali, and Maarten Casteels sit down with guest Frank Delporte for a Dutch-language conversation about Java, writing, and the people behind the keyboard.

Foojay Podcast #93: Update Your JDK, Read More Code, and Talk to Your Users: Interviews From VoxxedDays Amsterdam

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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 changed their workflow last month. At VoxxedDays Amsterdam we grabbed fifteen of those conversations on tape with Ko Turk, Johannes Bechberger, Lutske de Leeuw, Aicha Laafia, Marit van Dijk, Adele Carpenter, Patrick Baumgartner, Sohan Maheshwar, Jeroen Egelmeers, Erwin Manders, Alexander Shopov, Maarten Verburg, Arjan Tijms, Joost Kaan, and Stephan Janssen for Foojay Podcast #93.

Foojay Podcast #92: Java 26 Is Here: What's New, What's Gone, and Why It Matters in 2026

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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 matter today, and what can wait? In this conversation with Simon Ritter and Loïc Mathieu, we go through every JEP in Foojay Podcast #92 and talk about what each one means in practice.

Foojay Podcast #91: 25 Years of IntelliJ IDEA: The IDE That Grew Up With Java

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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 with AI assistants. To mark the anniversary, we sat down with Marit van Dijk, Anton Arhipov, and Dmitry Jemerov from JetBrains for Foojay Podcast #91.

Foojay Podcast #90: Highlights of the Java Features Between LTS 21 and 25

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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 hard. We walked through the highlights between the two LTS versions, from virtual threads to ahead-of-time features, and looked at what each one solves in practice. I hosted this conversation with Jakob Jenkov for episode #90 of the Foojay Podcast.

Foojay Podcast #89: Quarkus and Agentic Commerce

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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 closer to home for many of us. How do open-source authors and content creators actually get paid for the work they put out? In this conversation with Michal Maléř and Holly Cummins, we dig into both topics in Foojay Podcast #89.

Foojay Podcast #88: From Code to Stage: Organizing Conferences and Finding Your Voice as a Speaker

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 conversation we hear from organizers, coaches, and speakers at every stage of that path. We talk with Stephan Janssen, Martin Smelt, Brian Vermeer, Annelore Egger, Daniël Floor, Berwout de Vries Robles, and Susanne Pieterse in Foojay Podcast #88.

The Human Side of Development: Career Growth, Staying Healthy, and Why People Matter More Than AI

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 same hours, and AI tools add another layer of pressure on top. In this season finale, we step away from frameworks and benchmarks to talk about the people behind the code. We sit down with Bruno Souza, Patricia Lenten, Georgios Diamantopoulos, and April Schuppel for Foojay Podcast #87.

Foojay Podcast #86: Agents, MCP, and Graph Databases: Java Developers Navigate the AI Revolution

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 writing parts of it. For this episode we gathered short interviews from Devoxx and JFall, with Marianne Hoornenborg, Viktor Gamov, Baruch Sadogursky, Stephen Chin, Mario Fusco, Jeroen Benckhuijsen, Martijn Dashorst, Maarten Mulders, and Simon Maple in Foojay Podcast #86.

Foojay Podcast #85: Code, Community, and Opportunity: Making Tech Accessible for Everyone

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 of us never see. In this episode we talk with Daniel De Luca, Kenny Schwegler, Cassandra Chin, and Igor De Souza about the work they do to lower those walls, in Foojay Podcast #85.

Foojay Podcast #84: Developing Performant, Cost Efficient, and Eco-friendly Code

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 we look at concrete techniques Java developers can apply today to ship faster, cheaper, and greener applications. I host Daniel Witkowski, Ko Turk, Ronald Dehuysser, and Jan Ouwens for Foojay Podcast #84.