Women are underrepresented in the tech sector —myth or reality? In addition to the Women in Tech survey, we also launched a diversity series aimed at bringing the most inspirational and powerful women in the tech scene to your attention. Today, we’d like you to meet Alisa Dammer, backend developer and data scientist.

At the beginning of each week, we take a step back and take a look at all the cool stuff that went down during the previous week. It has been another busy week in the tech world with the list for JEPs targeted to JDK 11 getting longer, the release of IntelliJ IDEA 2018.2 EAP, the JAXenter survey on frameworks results coming out and much more.

Do you know where your data is moving? Dr. Alan Nichol and Ricardo Wölker will show you how to build and run your own GDPR-compliant Natural Language Understanding (NLU) service with the open-source Rasa NLU  library. You can query it over HTTP without Python knowledge and it leaves you fully in charge of your data.

Designed from the ground up for microservices, Micronaut is a framework for lightweight and reactive development on the JVM. In this article, Sergio del Amo and Ralf D. Müller explain how Micronaut’s minimal footprint can help speed up your microservices implementation.

Have you heard about Eclipse JDT Language Server (a.k.a. jdt.ls)? In this article, Fred Bricon explains all the changes to this open source Java language specific implementation of the Language Server Protocol.

The GDPR provides for the privacy of EU citizens regardless of where in the world their data is stored and used, so today’s CDO will need to have the ability to manage data collection, storage, and usage accordingly. Maggie Kimberl explains how this regulation complicates data collection.

If Java is unfamiliar territory for you or you are migrating from another language to Java, this article should help you understand what you need and what you don’t.

It’s time for another programming pub quiz! This week, we’re testing your knowledge about Akka. Do you know everything there is to know about this toolkit for building concurrent applications on the JVM?

Each Agile team is a cycling gear; a threaded organization is a humming machine. Implementing a Digital Thread means you will have access and agency over your full process information. Without one in place, your Agile approach is limited to the team level.

Visual development allows you to build and design mobile apps without having to write all of the UI and business logic code from scratch. In this article, Nate Frechette explains why you should treat it as an ally.

As competition around algorithms will remain the most heated battleground for ad tech companies, excellent results all start with the quality of data. The old adage, ‘garbage in, garbage out’ has never been more apt. As it turns out, first-party data is not only the new gold standard for advertising, it’s set to become the legal benchmark too when the GDPR is enforced.

At last month’s JAX conference, Wolfgang Pleus talked about the growth of the Agile movement and the trends that are particularly exciting right now. We caught up with him to dive deeper into the Agile topic.

Open source components are present in an enormous percentage of applications in numerous firms. What does the security overview of open source look like just moments before the GDPR enforcement?

Organizations doing continuous integration correctly are all following a few basic rules. In this article, Brian Dawson, DevOps evangelist at CloudBees presents the 7 core principles of Continuous Integration.