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Java at 30, the birthday episode

June 03, 2025

Pete Farrell is joined by our CTO, Chris Kelly, and Technical Architect Karl Stoney to discuss Java's origins in 1995 and its impact throughout the past three decades. They chatted about how Java code has moved with us through website rewrites, moving to the cloud, and running over 750 microservices and whether they think Java will still be around in another thirty years.

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