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The audience voted for loops ("for") instead of Streams in multiple examples at Voxxed Days Amsterdam last week. See the slides with the vote histograms embedded here: drive.google.com/file/d/1L0agFD…

Presentation Tips, Tools, and My Sound Effects: victorrentea.ro/blog/presentat… Perhaps this helps more bright engineers step into the light and assume the role of mentors.

Streamtoxication: in many use-cases, 'for' loops were consistently voted to be cleaner than the Streams version by participants at Voxxed Days Amsterdam conference 2 weeks ago. Watch my talk here: youtube.com/watch?v=qGecMw…

Let's publish events instead of calling a REST API. What can possibly go wrong? Join the next Amsterdam JUG Meetup (onsite) on May 8 to brainstorm this topic with me and many other passionate seniors. RSVP here: meetup.com/amsterdam-java…

Would you join me at DevTalks conference in Bucharest on June 4-5? If you can make it, here are several free tickets (please use only if really planning to attend): myconnector.ro/devtalks-2025/…

ScreenBrush - a MUST-HAVE MacOS application for any trainer or speaker that wants to increase their audience engagement. Absolutely fantastic features, and yet simple to use. Also, amazing support team. apps.apple.com/ro/app/screenb…

Don't miss the Codecamp Festival on May 8th in Bucharest, where you can meet some heavyweight thought leaders in software craftsmanship. Use this link to get a 35% discount off the ticket price for the European Software Crafters community: registration.socio.events/e/codecampfest…

Psychology of Code - the recording of my ending keynote at VoxxedDays Bucharest is online. youtu.be/aRWkmyspfpY?si…

Devvox always has great content. If you regularly build REST(ful) APIs in Java you should definitely checkout this great talk by @victorrentea youtube.com/watch?v=arUOVF…

Join my two talks at Devoxx UK next week about REST API Pitfalls and Functional Programming Code Smells. And if you're not yet at the conference, use SEEMESPEAK25 code to get -25% discount tickets.devoxx.co.uk/event/devoxx-u… using the promo code

Slides of REST API Pitfalls of my talk coming up DevoxxUK 🇬🇧 drive.google.com/file/d/1cKOp7Q…

You switched from calling REST APIs to sending Messages (Rabbit, Kafka..). What pitfalls await you? What async communication patterns must you master? Join the online workshop and share your own war stories with the community: meetup.com/european-softw…

Awesome Artem Victor Rentea and Mollie Payments at Code Nomads this evening, excellent food, topics, and networking.

💡 Refactoring is your daily superpower! Join Victor Rentea (Victor Rentea) at #devbcn25 for his hands-on Refactoring Playbook workshop. Level up your clean code and design chops! 👉 buff.ly/w4vEWfF

I will explain integration testing best practices (if you're sick of mocks) on May 27 in Bucharest. In the same evening, Playtika will explain their excellent OSS wrapper of Testcontainers: github.com/PlaytikaOSS/te… Join for free: events.playtika.com/java_meetup_bu…

YouTube Live-Stream starting in 10 minutes: youtube.com/live/8Un-ojvH-…

I will speak about Microservice Resilience Patterns in Bucharest on June 25 after working hours at Kambi, who will share patterns of high-scale Event-Driven Architectures using Kafka in the sportsbook industry. Join this event (🎙️🍺🍕) for free here: info.kambi.com/bucharest-care…

🎉 Just got rated #1 talk at Spring IO (Barcelona), a conference with a super strong audience and heavyweight speakers. See you next year!!

Diagrams. Let’s take a terrible diagram and improve it. Then talk about the C4 model, the lead tools in diagramming, and some hidden gems you should add to your toolbox. Join this community event to engage with brilliant developers worldwide (free): meetup.com/european-softw…

Next Wed after-hours I will speak about Microservice Resilience Patterns in Bucharest. The host (Kambi) will share patterns of Event-Driven Architectures at scale using Kafka in the sportsbook industry. Join this community event (🎙️🍺🍕) for free here: info.kambi.com/bucharest-care…