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Jonas Bonér is an entrepreneur, public speaker, and open-source pioneer, best known as the creator of Akka and the Reactive Manifesto, and founder and CTO of Akka, building agentic AI platforms for distributed systems at scale.
James Turner (Turnerj) is a programmer and entrepreneur with a passion for technology, building software products and running a development business, backed by years of hands-on experience in web development and startups.
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Bartłomiej (Bartek) Płotka is a Senior Software Engineering Tech Lead at Google Cloud, expert in Observability, Go, Prometheus, and distributed systems, author of Efficient Go.
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Gunnar Morling is a Java Champion and open-source software engineer specializing in Java and data streaming. He works at Confluent, contributes to projects like Hibernate and Debezium, and shares his expertise through blogs, talks, and conferences.
Phil Eaton is a staff engineer working on Postgres and software internals, sharing insights on databases, systems engineering, and life deep in the software stack.
Drew DeVault’s blog features sharp commentary on open source, software engineering, programming languages, ethics in tech, and the social impact of technology.
Paweł Chudzik is a programming blog covering practical how-tos and deep dives into Docker, Java, Python, Git, testing, and software architecture.
Kevin Avignon is a software engineer and writer embracing the focused generalist mindset, sharing thoughtful insights on engineering, developer productivity, performance, system design, and the human side of building software through in-depth articles and essays.
Alex Merced — Developer and technical writer sharing in-depth insights on data engineering, Apache Iceberg, data lakehouse architectures, Python tooling, and modern analytics platforms, with a strong focus on practical, hands-on learning.
Milan Jovanović — Software Architect and Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies, helping engineers master .NET and software architecture through practical guidance, newsletters, and videos based on real-world enterprise experience.
Ioannis (Giannis) Kyriakidis — Senior Software Engineer from Greece with 20+ years of coding experience, PhD in Artificial & Computational Intelligence, educator, and problem-solver passionate about building scalable systems, mentoring developers, and continuous learning.
Morling.dev is the personal blog of Michael Morling, a software engineer and architect with deep expertise in Java, Spring, JVM internals, architecture, performance, and developer tooling. His writing focuses on practical and detailed explanations of topics such as Spring framework internals, microservices design, JVM garbage collection, performance tuning, clean architecture, Gradle builds, and language features that matter in real projects. Michael often breaks down subtle behaviors of the JVM and Spring ecosystem, helping developers understand why things work the way they do and how to improve reliability and efficiency in production systems.
AlexDeBrie.com is the blog of Alex DeBrie, an AWS Data Hero and one of the most recognized experts on Amazon DynamoDB and NoSQL data modeling. He writes in depth articles on DynamoDB concepts such as partitions, single table design, transactions, costs, consistency, and one to many relationships, always backed by clear mental models, examples, and tradeoff analysis.
