Meet Jos Roseboom

JavaZone 2026 At the beginning of September, I participated in JavaZone for the third time and had the privilege of meeting a lot of passionate software developers willing to share their knowledge with the community. In the first conference day, I attended a very good talk about JPA performance tuning that was delivered by Jos Roseboom and since I enjoyed his talk, I proposed him to gave an interview for this blog. Therefore, in this article we have the pleasure of getting to know Jos and take opportunity of learning about Spring… Read More

60 years of COBOL – past, present, and future

Introduction 60 years of COBOL, and, most likely, it’s here for the future. In this article, we have the pleasure of interviewing Adrian Tot about the past, present, and future of this technology that still has a very significant impact on our day-to-day business operations. As software developers, we dream of using the latest technologies to solve various business use cases. However, lots of software systems still run on COBOL, a 60-year-old English-like data processing language inspired by Grace Hopper’s idea of having a programming language that’s machine-independent. Every now and then,… Read More