The Artifact

Link to GitHub for Sinan's book https://github.com/sinanuozdemir/quick-start-guide-to-llms Sinan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sinan-ozdemir/ In this episode, I engage in a compelling conversation with Sinan Ozdemir, a seasoned expert in AI and LLMs who shares over a decade of experience. We navigate the fascinating progression of large language models (LLMs), discussing their deter...

Dan Vega is a Spring Developer Advocate at VMware Tanzu. Dan is also a prolific YouTube content creator, course creator, and has spoken in several conferences. He also hosts the Spring Office Hours show and podcast weekly. In this episode, I talk to Dan about his journey to being a Spring Developer Advocate and what his job actually entails. We also chat about all things Spring - the scope of the...

Roland's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roland-weisleder/ Devoxx talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef0lUToWxI8 I happened to see a Devoxx talk a month ago, which was titled Unit Test, your Java Architecture by Roland Weisleder. And I found that to be super interesting because unit testing is something that I've always attributed to code, something more objective. And arc...

Links:  Get a Solace Cloud account:   https://console.solace.cloud/login/new-account   Spring Cloud Stream code lab:  https://codelabs.solace.dev/codelabs/spring-cloud-stream-basics   Jonathan's LinkedIn profile:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-schabowsky   Event driven microservices are gaining a lot of traction these days due to their ability to decouple...

Madeline's website: http://madelinemann.com Self Made Millenial YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/SelfMadeMillennial  In this episode of The Artifact, I talk to Madeline Mann, who is a career and job search coach. She is the creator of the Self Made Millenial. She has a coaching program and a Youtube channel with some amazing content with a lot of value.  In this interview, I ta...

Microservice patterns website: http://microservices.io Chris' consulting website: http://chrisrichardson.net  It's really simple. When you think microservice patterns, you think Chris Richardson. Chris is a very popular and authoritative voice in the microservice space - he runs the website: microservices.io which is a go-to resource for anyone trying to architect microservices and needs to l...

JDK 18 is released, there's controversy over Google Cloud's price increase, a new look for MDN, a mysterious npm package that does nothing but has over 700 thousand downloads. And a walk through of the Java developer productivity report from JRebel. All this and more in this episode of the Artifact. Java 18 is here https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2022-March/006458.html https://blog...

There's a point in every software engineers career, where they think "What's next?" Do they consider the role of an architect? Do they make a switch to a managerial role? Or deep dive into an individual contributor role?  In this episode, I talk to Lee Atchison, who's not only an author and a video course trainer, he has been in the architect role for 20 years!  I pick his brain on quest...

Jakarta EE 10 is coming up. GitHub codespaces is becoming fast, like really fast! Dynamo DB turns 10. There is a library that I recommend for faking data. And what the heck is the difference between multicloud and poly cloud? Welcome to episode three of the artifact. This is a solo episode. We don't have a guest here that I can interview, but I have a lot of good stuff for you to share, including...

Getting started in the software industry as a backend Java developer used to be about learning a programming language and a couple of frameworks to build applications. And you were all set. These days, it's no longer the case. With the rise of DevOps, and more importantly, the cloud, the learning journey that a new software developer has to go through has gotten more and more exansive. In this vid...

What is the Artifact? Setting aside the general meaning of the word artifact, in software world, an artifact is anything that's a byproduct produced during the development of software. A build or an executable is an artifact. A design document is an artifact. A packaged library is an artifact. All these are artifacts, but when you are developingf software for many years as many of us have, there's...