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This talk humorously examines Java's frustrating quirks and design choices, its evolution, and influence on other languages. It discusses controversia...

This talk explores how AI, including GPT-3 and Github Copilot, can enhance digital accessibility. It covers types of disabilities to consider when cod...

This talk explores the transformative impact of AI coding tools on developer workflows, sharing insights from using over 30 AI agents. It covers how A...

This session demonstrates how GitHub Copilot can assist throughout the entire development cycle—not just code completion, but backlog creation, planni...

This session examines AI-assisted software development tools in environments with strict data restrictions, such as government and financial instituti...

Join us for an insightful talk that navigates common and costly pitfalls in Java development.

From subtle stream mistakes to critical concurren...

The talk emphasizes maintaining long-term service health over chasing perfect architectures. Drawing on years of legacy system experience, it offers p...

AI agents don’t have to be black boxes—or written in Python. In this session, we’ll build one from scratch in Kotlin using Koog, a lightweight framewo...

This session demonstrates how to easily build robust, enterprise-ready AI services using Spring AI. Led by experts from AWS and Spring, it covers inte...

This keynote reframes accessibility as a foundation for sustainable engineering. By designing for users with diverse needs, developers create calmer,...

Accessibility Resilience Sustainability Engineering

This demo presents an AI-driven approach to estimating and reducing the energy and CO₂ footprint of mature Java code. Using detailed code analysis, pr...

This talk applies behavioral psychology, including Kahneman’s “fast” and “slow” thinking, to coding. It offers research-based strategies for conservin...

It depends…

Ever struggled to articulate why one design choice feels better than another?
Most design debates in teams aren’t really about r...

The A/B test! We've all thought it: "What's the point? How much configuration do we need?" If you're familiar with the scientific method, those steps...

This talk explores Ted Nelson’s visionary 1974 book Computer Lib/Dream Machines, his advocacy for user empowerment, open knowledge, and hypertext, and...

This talk explains how Kotlin’s ‘inline’ functions enable early returns, breaks, and continues across function boundaries, making constructs like ‘for...

Do you want to build your own emulator to run old software, or do you need to mimic hardware which is no longer produced? Then this talk is for you!

The Java language is known to be performant, easy to use, and with great IDE support, but Java build tools like Maven or Gradle don't always live up t...

This talk demonstrates setting up and using an IncusOS desktop server for running AI applications locally, highlighting benefits like privacy, cost co...

The abstract explores why all software eventually becomes legacy, despite good intentions. It proposes strategies to slow system decay by distinguishi...

The text contrasts greenfield and legacy projects, noting that every system eventually becomes legacy. It explores why software degrades over time and...

This session shows how to use AI in Elastic to enhance SRE operations by correlating observability data through Agent Builder and Workflows. With RAG-...

Java was once this slow-moving language, but not anymore. It seems to be unstoppable now. With incremental and frequent releases, Java is evolving not...

The session highlights GraalVM 25’s enhancements for migration, performance, and security, including new profiling tools, ML optimizations, and defaul...