Episode 30: Ben Evans on the State of Java

On the latest episode of the New Relic Modern Software Podcast, we welcome Java guru Ben Evans—who recently joined New Relic’s European Development Center in sunny Barcelona, Spain—to take a close look at the current state of the world’s most popular programming language, New Relic’s support of Java and open source, optimizing Java in a microservices world, Java anti-patterns, and much, much more. Ben is a Java Champion, three-time JavaOne Rock Star speaker and, a prolific author of Java books, including The Well-Grounded Java Developer, and co-author of Optimizing Java and the new edition of Java in A Nutshell. He spent six years as a member of the Java Community Process Executive Committee (aka the JCPC) helping define standards for the Java ecosystem. Leading Ben’s interview is Modern Software Podcast co-host Tori Wieldt, a Java expert in her own right, who managed Oracle’s Java community for five years. You can read an edited transcript of the entire podcast on the New Relic Blog: https://blog.newrelic.com/engineering/java-ben-evans-modern-software-podcast/