Devnexus 2025 is a wrap!. This conference, run by Atlanta Java User Group is one of my absolute favourite conferences. There is so much going on and the hallway track is so fun. It has to be with such an amazing speaker lineup.

This year, as the previous years, we had a track entirely dedicated to Jakarta EE as well as a Jakarta EE booth. My amazing Eclipse Foundation colleagues, Carmen and Shabnam, did an exceptional job making sure that everything with the booth went smoothly. In addition to this, Eclipse IDE and Eclipse GlassFish were also represented with a booth on their own.

I had the pleasure of having a talk together with Rustam where we talked about how to leverage CRaC with Jakarta EE. It was a fun talk with lots of bad jokes and really cool technology. Everything backed up by a hands on demo. Check out the slides for more about the talk

As always, we went out for a #runWithJakartaEE morning run both days of the conference. This is the best way to get started before a long conference day. Some complain that it is early to go for a run at 6:30 am, but usually they thank me afterwards. The afternoons at conferences are usually so packed with activities so it is rarely possible to make it happen then.

Another cool thing at this year’s Devnexus was to participate in a live recording of an episode the Off Heap podcast. The topic for this episode was Open Source Foundations, and we had a panel consisting of Erin from Commonhaus Foundation, Bob from Apache Software Foundation, and me from Eclipse Foundation. We had some great discussions, so make sure to listen to the episode when it airs.