I just finished my talk at JCON—When Greed is Good: Understanding Java Stream Performance. The title attracted a good crowd. Slides at https://horstmann.com/pr...

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My article "Nice and Naughty Cases of Pattern Matching" has been published in the JVM Advent Calendar: https://www.javaadvent.c...

Finally recovering from JCON in Cologne. Great conference! I gave two well-attended talks. horstmann.com/presentation... horstmann.com/presentation... Keynote surprise: I got a "Java Community Lifetime Achievement" award. For having survived 30 years of Java. Looking forward to many more years...

I'll be talking at the free online jChampionsConference today at 16:00 UTC on "Java for Small Coding Tasks". Register at jchampionsconf.com