JCON Report, Part 4 - Tips and Tricks for Java Devs (#75)

This is the final part of the JCON 2025 interviews with a lot of tips and tricks!

In the three previous podcasts, we featured interviews from the JCON conference on "Being a better Java developer," "Evolutions in Java," and "How to use AI with Java." However, we talked to many more people during the conference, so this podcast focuses on tips and tricks. Let's learn from the many other experienced visitors of JCON.

00:00 Introduction
00:34 Merlin Bögershausen - OpenRewrite and Azul Intelligence Cloud
https://www.linkedin.com/in/merlin-boegershausen
07:08 Eberhard Wolff - Measure developer productivity
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eberhardwolff
12:28 Annelore Egger - Dealing with bad code, it's not your fault
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anneloredev
15:21 Michael Vitz - Unexpected things you can do with Java
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelvitz
18:40 Michael Simons - Neo4J database models
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-simons-196712139
https://motherduck.com/duckdb-book-brief
23:13 Stefan Böhringer - Building a project for education from scratch with Quarkus
https://www.linkedin.com/in/datenschauer
28:14 Johannes Rabauer - Learned from earlier projects
https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannes-rabauer
30:33 Roland Weisleder - ArchUnit, testing architecture with unit tests
https://www.linkedin.com/in/roland-weisleder
34:26 Simon Martinelli - htmx, full stack, Vaadin, JOOQ
https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonmartinelli
37:02 Loïc Magnette - Web development, Angular, React, Java community versus others
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lomagnette
40:41 Tanja Obradovic - Eclipse Foundation, JakartaEE
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanja-obradovic-095604
49:19 Syed Usman Ahmad - Grafana, Prometheus, monitoring tools, OpenTelemetry
https://www.linkedin.com/in/usmanlinux
55:38 François Martin - Tools, chaos testing, Toxyproxy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fran%C3%A7oismartin
01:01:31 Conclusion