The Keys to Developer Productivity: Collaborate and Innovate

In the JVM track at QCon SF, the speakers talked about the role of collaboration and innovation and how this is impacting their business. Netflix talked about their architecture and tech stack as they grow into one of the biggest film studios with more systems, services and teams involved and growing scale, how they evolve their Java tech-stack, using Java frameworks, developer tooling and Micro Services. LinkedIn talked about their use of a high-performance distributed database. ASML talked about their platform's architecture, the Java technologies that power it, and using AI and Java together for chip manufacturing. IBM discussed how with the increased cloud adoption and micro services, the role of the JVM has become increasingly significant, including startup and warmup time.

All of these evolutions and pivots are possible due to collaboration and innovation in the Java community ecosystem. The Java innovation pipeline is stronger than it has ever been, and the collaboration is higher than ever before. A new release of Java, Java SE 21, just came out a few weeks ago, and so much was delivered in this new release, with over 15 Java Enhancement Proposals (JEP) via OpenJDK and the Java Community Process (JCP). Virtual threads, string templates, record patterns, pattern matching for switch, generations ZGC, structured concurrency, and more are included in Java 21. Work is already well underway for Java 22, to be released in March 2024, and there are many contributors working on projects in OpenJDK to deliver more innovation from projects such as Panama, Valhalla, Loom, Amber, ZGC, Leyden, and more.  Learn how you can adopt the latest technology, innovate and contribute to the future evolution of the Java platform and ecosystem in this session.