Java

JDK 11 is the open-source reference implementation of version 11 of the Java SE 11 Platform as specified by JSR 384 in the Java Community Process.

JDK 11 reached General Availability on 25 September 2018. Production-ready binaries under the GPL are available from Oracle; binaries from other vendors will follow shortly.

Position on the Adoption Curve

Presentations about Java

Lead Engineer @StarlingBank Jason Maude

Building a Reliable Cloud Based Bank in Java

Chief Scientist, Java Technologies and Software Hardware Co-Optimization @AlibabaGroup Kingsum Chow

Brewing Java Applications in Sigma Managed Clusters

Android Engineer @Google Jake Wharton

Kotlin: Write Once, Run (Actually) Everywhere

Spec Lead, Java Language @Oracle Alex Buckley

The JDK in 2018: What's Here, and What's Next

Lead Developer @AzulSystems Ivan Krylov

Assisted Warmup with the Zing JVM

Advisory Platform Architect @pivotal Anand Rao

Microservices Full-Day Build Spring

Advisory Platform Architect @Pivotal Adib Saikali

Microservices Full-Day Build Spring

Java Performance Expert & Java Champion Kirk Pepperdine

Java Performance Workshop

Interviews

Lead Engineer @StarlingBank

Jason Maude

Featured Interview

Building a Reliable Cloud Based Bank in Java

When you selected Java to build a modern, cloud-based architecture for Starling, is it correct to say that you went for the guarantee of Java's longevity rather than for the rapid iteration cycle you might get from a smaller, more opinionated language?

Yes, absolutely. Our aim and focus are much more long-term than many startups, and because of that, we are prioritizing the aspect of reliability. This goes to the heart of my talk. We want to guarantee stability because we will be around in years to come.

Why Java in particular?

There were two key reasons that we chose Java.

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