Featured ChurConf Talks
Teaching AI Agents to Speak Quarkus - Phillip Kruger (Red Hat)
Augmenting AI with the Power of Jakarta EE - Ivar Grimstad (Eclipse Foundation)
Scotty I need Warp Speed: Ways to improve the JVM startup/warmup - Gerrit Grunwald (Azul)
Thinking in Tables: Replacing Hibernate Magic with Exposed Logic in Spring Boot - Frederik Pietzko (JetBrains)
Your REST API Already Speaks AI: Building MCP Servers in Java - Varsha Das (Amazon)
JFR Hearts AI: Ultimate Combo for Troubleshooting - Ram Lakshmanan (yCrash)
Unlocking Java’s Code Maze - Mihaela Gheorghe-Roman (Systematic)
Code Your AI Agent Can Actually Read: Explicit Function Orchestration in Spring Boot - Daniel Sagenschneider (OfficeFloor)
Data, Streaming & Search
A Diskless Experience on Cloud: Running Apache Kafka KIP-1150 - Guang Zhao
"From Now On, I Want Every Single Message" - Ming-Yen Chung
How Apache Kafka handles CPU/Memory in New Consumer Protocol - PoAn Yang
YARN MCP: AI Agent Integration - Bence Kosztolnik, Peter Szucs
Fast Optimistic Concurrency Control with Apache Ozone S3 Conditional Requests - Chu Cheng Li
Impala 5.0: Where lakehouse meets lower latency and better observability - Quanlong Huang
Scaling Parquet Metadata for Wide Tables: Selective Loading, Decoding, and Caching - Bharathwaj G, Arpit Bandejiya
Teach Your AI Agents What the Data Means: A Semantic Layer with Apache Ossie and Iceberg - Sho Tanaka
Workload and topology aware scheduling with Apache Yunikorn - Wilfred Spiegelenburg
Emerging Technologies
Quantum-Safe Web Servers: Transitioning to ML-KEM and ML-DSA - Jean-Frederic Clere
Our Augmented Future Needs To Be Open - Patrick Catanzariti
Modern JVM & Enterprise Technologies
Groovy 6 features for humans and AI agents - Paul King
Lessons from HBase in high-perfomance Java - Charles Connell
Breaking the JVM Barrier - Arpit Bandejiya, Bharathwaj G
Open Source Culture & Community
Three New Committers and a Half-Finished Rewrite - YONGJAE LEE
From Contribution to Innovation: Building an Open Source Program That Scales - Sheriff Manzoor F
The Unseen Pull Request: The Crisis We Don’t Measure - joyce lokko
Software Engineering Craft
Snapshots: It’s Just a Copy, Right? - Sadanand Shenoy
It’s Just String Comparison... How Hard Could It Be? Collations in Apache Spark - Uroš Bojanić
We Bent Jenkins Until It Broke. Here’s What Apache Airflow Fixed. - Hrithik Kumar
Shipping Airflow DAGs: From Folders and Fat Bundles to Build-Graph-Aware Artifacts - Sumit Maheshwari