Ready or not, Nashorn JavaScript Engine will be deprecated once JDK 11 is here. The “massacre” of this youngling sent a shockwave across the industry. What’s the consensus on the deprecation? What alternatives are there? Should someone take over Nashorn? We talked to David P. Caldwell about all this and more.

From the principle of Getting Things Done, to DevOps and agile practices, automation is the number one word in everyone’s mouth. Here we take a look at the most interesting results of The Pervasive Automation Report by Puppet and how the picture of automation adoption among enterprises looks like.

Given the possibilities of IoT and the enthusiasm of its proponents, one would imagine people lining up to get their hands on the latest IoT devices. Unfortunately, that is not (yet!) the case. So what’s stopping people from adopting technology that promises to make life so much easier for everyone? Here are a few thoughts and solutions.

Time to check in on IntelliJ IDEA 2018! The second Release Candidate of IntelliJ IDEA 2018.2 is out, which can only mean one thing: 2018.2 is right around the corner.

What are the current and future challenges of Jakarta EE? In this article, Dmitry Kornilov explains why making sure everything transfers over to the Eclipse Foundation is taking a lot longer than you’d think.

The awesome ngx-charts library is based on D3.js, so it is possible to use D3.js with Angular. In this article, Stephan Rauh of Beyond Java explains how to use D3.js with Angular correctly without driving yourself nuts.

Go 1.11 is expected to be released in August 2018 and guess what? It will add experimental support for a new concept called “modules.” Let’s take a look and see what this means for Go developers.

Gradle is here with the newest release 4.9 and it impresses us with an extensive list of new features, improvements, issue fixes, and a couple of breaking changes!

Women are underrepresented in the tech sector —myth or reality? Last year, we 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 Liat Palace, Director, Delivery Technology Office DevOps Coaching Team at Amdocs and speaker at JAX London 2018.

Let’s discuss test-driven development. Some say it’s a waste of time. Others liken it to a magic spell that will instantly find bugs in their code. So, what is the truth? We take a look at just some of the opinions in the vast ocean of TDD debate. What do you think?

Since summer is well upon us, how about taking a quick trip to exotic Madagascar to meet some sweet asity birds? Or, we can just build universally reusable web fragments on the JVM with Asity, a lightweight abstraction layer for various web frameworks on the Java Virtual Machine that makes the long-lived “Write Once, Run Anywhere” concept a fascinating reality!

Nagini, except for being the… massive friend of he-who-must-not-be-named, is also a static verifier for Python, built on the Viper verification infrastructure. Is it me or did a lot of snakes just started hanging around?

The Facebook incubator team is at it again. This time, they’ve hatched a new kind of way to distribute self-contained executables with a new archive. Never worry about distributing at scale with XARs!

Our IDE series continues with Kotlin! This pragmatic language for the JVM has a number of options for developers, which might explain why it’s on the rise. Today, we take a look at some of our favorite IDEs and text editors.