This was my second time speaking at IBM TechXchange. First time was at the inaugural event in 2023 located in Las Vegas with around 2000 attendees. At this year's event in Orlando, it had grown to around 9000 attendees. New this year was that the Java community track was organised by JCON. We had a room at prime location near the registration area.

The second edition of dev2next was a fantastic experience. Located in beautiful Colorado Springs and with a speaker lineup other conferences can only dream of, this conference is the place to be. I…

Welcome to issue number three hundred and one of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I am now in Colorado Springs waiting for my flight to Orlando. The dev2next conference was an amazing experience. So many great speakers, talks, and conversations. A blog post from the event is coming up shortly. The next event will be different. IBM TechXchange is significantly bigger and located in Orlando, Florida.

Come To Code is a fantastic community event organized by a very dedicated Linux User Group in beautiful Pignola in the south of Italy. Despite the remote location, it gathered 180 eager attendees. This alone is an impressive accomplishment. The conference had two parallel tracks, as well as track dedicated to human skills. I did a talk about how to…

Welcome to issue number three hundred of Hashtag Jakarta EE! In the beginning of this week I was in Madrid speaking and attending at Open Source Community Day 2025 before I continued to Italy for Come To Code in Pignola. I will soon publish a post of the last one. Next week, I am will go to Colorado Springs for…