simpligility – Manfred Moser

    Author: manfred

    • Sooo many Maven dependencies!

      Sooo many Maven dependencies!

      So you know how to read a Maven pom.xml for your Java project and locate the declared <dependencies> and even understand their scope. Maybe you even know that you can use mvn dependency:tree to list all dependencies and all the transitive dependencies. Nice, so you know the dependencies of your project.

      Or not, did you ever wonder what dependencies you need to actually build that project? I did, and built a tool that allows you to find out for your project as well. Try it out, I promise you will be surprised.

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    • A new chapter – your support makes a difference

      I honestly don’t remember my first open source contributions. I was involved in some of the early days of hacking, modding, and working on shareware and freeware before the internet and then in newsgroups – remember those? From there I just continued my software development and community work – we didn’t even call our work open source. Over the many years I have become heavily involved in the Java, Android, DevOps, security, and other communities and projects like Apache Maven, Jenkins/Hudson, Trino, and many others.

      For years, I’ve dedicated myself to building, maintaining, and improving projects that are critical to developers and organizations globally. The commitment has definitely varied and sometimes included parts of that open source work in my job description, but even then it always included many late nights. Now I am finding myself in a different situation again and I am trying something new…

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    • Six months a Chainguardian!

      Wow .. has time ever flown by! It’s is now just over 6 month ago that I became a Chainguardian and let you all know with a fun public service announcement video. Joining Chainguard has been an amazing experience so far, and also a weird mixture of getting back to things I did a long time ago, continuing to use my skills and experience, working with new people and technologies, and taking on new tasks and responsibilities. Last week I joined my first company-wide meeting, and had a truly great surprise. But more about that later, let’s see what I have been up to.

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    • Wrapping up my 2024 with Trino

      What happened? Did another year really just whizz past me? I am still typing 2024 dates, but it is true. 2025 is here, and soon we will also switch to the new lunar year, so it is time to look back and recapture my year with Trino and Commander Bun Bun.

      In a nutshell, my 2024 was a very good year for Trino, Commander Bun Bun, and the Trino contributor and user community. Check out my recap blog post for the Trino project itself for some overall stats and information, and then let’s see what I got done.

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    • Google doubling down on AI

      We just came back from our visit to Mountain View to attend Google IO 2024 in person. For Manfred it has been a flashback to the days of regular IO attendance as GDG leader and heavily involved Android developer and open source community member. For Lukas it was the first bigger conference as university student, and his first visit to the Googleplex, thanks to our friend, host, and guide Matthew McCullough.

      Two days of attending keynotes and sessions, and numerous chats with our peers left us with lots of impressions that we discussed and talked about and want to share with you all.

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    • It’s showtime, it’s IO time

      It has been a long time that spring time has marked the moment to get ready for the Google IO developer conference for me. Its been many years since I last went to the conference. It started with IO 2009 and many presentations and lightning talks at AnDevCon conferences for me. The buzz and vibe in these beginning days Android is full of fond memories for me. Now in 2024, and it’s time to go back.

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    • Recap about DET meetup and Open Source Summit in Seattle

      It has already been over week since I got back from Seattle, where I attended the Open Source Summit NA in the beautiful convention centre. In the same trip I also presented at the Data Engineer Things group’s inaugural meeting in Bellevue. Both events were very successful for Starburst as sponsor of my trip, Trino as the open source SQL query engine I talk about, and myself as a learning participant in many talks and great conversations.

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