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Java 14 features: Switch Expressions, JFR Event Streaming and more

This is the third post in a series of blog posts highlighting some features and improvements that will be introduced in Java 14, expected to go GA in a couple of days. In this post, We will have a look into Switch expression, JFR streaming, as well as some various

Skaffold, OKE & OCIR!

If you're working on cloud-native apps and containers, you probably already noticed that, amid all features that containers offer, they added somehow a new later of complexity to the development workflow! We spend a great amount of time building container images, pushing them across registries, updating Kubernetes manifests, redeploying the

5 reasons to attend DevNexus 2020

We are writing these lines from 2 different beautiful cities; Brussels for me where I'm attending, for the first time the amazing FOSDEM; and Copenhagen for my dear friend, java champion and boss Badr El Houari after participating in jspirit unconference, as he likes to describe himself lately: unconference advocate!

Java 14 new features: Records

This is the second article in the blog post series discussing the new features introduced in java 14. Today's article is focused on Records that aims to provide a compact & concise way for declaring data classes. Java 14 rew features articles: * Pattern Matching for instanceof, jpackage & helpful NPEs * Switch Expressions,

Tweets Sentiment Analysis using Stanford CoreNLP

We're living in an era where data become the most valuable resource! Nearly every app in the market now, tries to understand its users, their behaviours, preferences, reactions and words! How many times, just after mentioning a watch ⌚ in a private conversation with your friend on messenger, your Facebook feed

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