Boston Java Users was the last stop of my mini-tour of US East Coast JUGs. Quite a crowd gathered at Oracle’s premises in Burlington for pizza and tech talks. The event started with a lightning talk about LLMs by Srijha Kalyan. She even did a demo of DeepSeek on her local computer.

After the lightning talk, it was my time to take the stage with my talk about Boosting Performance and Developer Productivity with Jakarta EE. I even threw in a demo of how to integrate with LLMs with Jakarta EE at the end of the presentation.

One of the personal highlights was to meet Scott Marlow in person. We have been working together for years with Jakarta EE and been in numerous zoom calls, but never met in person before. Scott is one of the project leads of the Jakarta EE TCK project and is leading the efforts of refactoring the TCK to use more modern technologies in order to make it more suitable to onboard new contributors.