Aug 11, 2026

The Past, Present & Future of Programming Languages • Kevlin Henney • YOW! 2025

Kevlin Henney explores the slow but profound evolution of programming languages, revealing how many 'new' features are decades-old concepts. He analyzes language popularity rankings, highlighting the dominance of 20th-century languages and the impact of the "von Neumann bottleneck." The talk delves into historical innovations from Fortran to Algol, coroutines to functional programming, and concludes by examining how Large Language Models (LLMs) are becoming clients of existing languages, further entrenching the mainstream rather than causing radical change, often due to their training data favoring established codebases.

Aug 06, 2026

A Long Spring: 19 Years of Living with Your Past Mistakes • Arjen Poutsma • GOTO 2025

Arjen Poutsma, a Spring Framework veteran, reflects on 19 years of evolving the framework. He shares insights on API design from XML to functional programming, detailing anecdotes like bubble sort in MVC and the challenges of HTTP method enums. Poutsma emphasizes the critical role of diversity, empathy, humility, and restraint in open-source stewardship to maintain developer trust and foster innovation under constraints.

Apr 20, 2026

State of the Art of Java in 2026 • Ben Evans • GOTO 2026

Java Champion Ben Evans provides a data-driven analysis of Java's health in 2026, arguing against its perceived decline. He covers its robust ecosystem, the core tension between dynamism and integrity, its evolving role in AI, and a detailed roadmap including Project Valhalla and the Vector API.

Apr 09, 2026

Building Agentic Applications with Spring AI • Matthew Meckes • GOTO 2025

Matthew Meckes from AWS makes a compelling case for Java's central role in the future of enterprise AI. This talk explores how Spring AI empowers developers to build robust, production-ready agentic applications by integrating LLMs with existing Java services, moving beyond proofs-of-concept to solve real-world business problems.

Feb 20, 2026

Spring Then & Now: What’s Next? • Rod Johnson, Arjen Poutsma & Trisha Gee

A panel discussion with Spring Framework creator Rod Johnson and veteran Arjen Poutsma, moderated by Trisha Gee. They discuss the evolution of Spring, the future of reactive programming in the age of virtual threads, their new AI agent framework Embabel, and the essential AI skills modern Java developers need to acquire.

Feb 03, 2026

Quarkus in Action • Martin Stefanko, Jan Martiska & Holly Cummins

Authors Martin Štefanko and Jan Martiška discuss their book "Quarkus in Action," detailing the framework's powerful developer experience, the trade-offs between JVM and native compilation, and its cloud-native capabilities. They explore the book's structure, which guides readers through building a complex microservices application to showcase over 29 different extensions, from REST and gRPC to reactive messaging and cloud deployment.