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When Product Owners Commit Code: Small Steps, Big Impact

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:01:52 +0000

Disclaimer: No Product Owners were harmed in the making of this story.
Spoiler: They survived. In fact… they thrived.

We never planned to tell this story.. and certainly not six years later. Back when it happened, it didn’t feel revolutionary. It felt… practical. A small fix to a small annoyance. The sort of thing teams do every day just to make life a bit easier.

But today, in a world where AI blurs boundaries and workflows become more fluid, the lesson behind this tiny experiment has become surprisingly relevant again. Because even before the age of “AI copilots”, our Product Owners had to leap across a much wider gap and yet what unfolded wasn’t about tools at all. It was about mindset. About curiosity. About empathy. And about what happens when teams stretch just a little bit beyond the edges of their roles.

Will AI Replace Me? Understanding Our Value in the AI Era

Wed, 20 May 2026 07:00:00 +0000

If you tried to keep up with all the content that’s flooding the internet on the topic of “Will AI replace software developers?”, you’d probably found a new full-time job. Social media posts, vlogs or entire channels, even CTO keynotes… not a day goes by without new content.

This article cannot predict the future. But it can offer some orientation in a messy debate by structuring it and making its implicit (and often false) assumptions visible. Because the biggest fallacy may not be overestimating AI - but underestimating what software engineering actually is about.

04-2026 | Java in the Age of AI - Special Edition

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:50:36 +0000

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▪️A Big Screen Experience for Java Developers & Architects

CORE JAVA
▪️A Big Screen Experience for Java Developers & Architects
▪️Effective Pattern Matching 2026 Edition
▪️Data Oriented Programming with Java
▪️Java 26 adopts HTTP/3 with the Evolution of the HttpClient
▪️Java 26 GC: Making Data Streaming Faster and More Reliable in Containers
▪️1BRC – The First 80%
▪️Building GPU Accelerated LLM Inference Libraries with TornadoVM
▪️Reactor Has Died, Long Live REACTOR!

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Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:05:02 +0000

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03-2026 | From Coder to System Designer

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:50:02 +0000

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▪️Architect Your Own Experience: Creating Your Individual JCON 2026 Journey

CORE JAVA
▪️The Foundations of Data-Oriented Programming in Java
▪️Lazy Constants in Java 26: Deferred Immutability and JVM Trust
▪️Final Is No Longer a Hint in Java 26
▪️Java 26 in Practice: How the JVM Is Changing the Way We Write Code
▪️Reverse Engineering Java: Backtracking Native Crashes

API & FRAMEWORKS
▪️Paketo Buildpacks: Ready for Java 26 & More!
▪️Stop Writing YAML: How to Define, Test, and Deploy Your Cloud in Pure Java
▪️Beyond REST: Rethinking APIs with GraphQL and Java
▪️Solving Spring AI’s UI Challenge with AG-UI’s Java SDK

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Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:20:13 +0000

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02-2026 | Engineering Intelligence

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:07:31 +0000

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▪️Engineering Intelligence Live: JAVAPRO Benefits for JCON 2026

CORE JAVA
▪️Building Low-Latency Event Pipelines With Java 25
▪️Achieving Microsecond Latencies With Java: Practical Techniques for Building Ultra-Fast Systems

API & FRAMEWORKS
▪️API Development: Implementing POST and SSE Events in Jakarta REST
▪️Open J Proxy: A Modern Open-Source Approach to Database Connectivity for the Java Ecosystem
▪️From Tables to JSON: Handling Unstructured Data in RDBMS Systems With Spring Boot
▪️Java 26 and Spring Boot 4: From Certification Skills to Production-Ready Applications
▪️From Cron to Carbon and Cost-Aware: Modernizing Java Background Jobs
▪️Why Struts 1.3 Still Matters in 2026
▪️The Jakarta Cliff: Why Modern Java Leaves Struts 1 Behind