Yolande Poirier
Yolande Poirier manages the online experience for the world's biggest IT community. She empowers developers to successfully grow their projects, businesses, and careers. Telling the story of how people use technology, she curates technical content, interviews IT professionals around the world, and write blogs about Java technologies and projects. She is a speaker at international conferences and JavaOne Rock Star, this year's track lead of the developer community day and a long time member of @jduchess, a network of women in Java. She manages @Java, a network of over 350,000 developer enthusiasts.
Recent Blogs
Prepare for the Migration to JDK 9
The release date is proposed for September 21, 2017 and it’s time to make sure your code will work with JDK 9. As you probably know, you will still be able to use the classpath and code with any official Java SE APIs and supported JDK-specific APIs. You will run into problems if your code uses certa...
The Pirates of DevOps: Delivering Software
Do you have issues with long deploy cycles? Your updates require some form of downtime. Are you losing money by keeping code already developed collecting dust in repositories instead of providing value and functionality for your users? Delivering the best software fast is what separates software com...
Reactive Java on the Blockchain with web3j
In this article we’re going to have some fun with the Ethereum blockchain, RxJava and web3j. Background During the past year, the technology and financial press has been full of talk about blockchain and it’s disruptive potential. A blockchain is an decentralised, immutable data store. As it is immu...
Streamlining JDK 9
Java SE 9 is feature complete. As part of the modernization of the Java SE platform, Jigsaw project and many features will be added to this next release. Part of improving the platform also means removing features, that have become obsolete or would slow development and deployment down. Iris Clark a...
Machine Learning and Java
“Machine Learning is about finding patterns in the data” explains Joel Lucas, a data scientist at TailTarget. Joel specializes in Deep Learning, a sub category of Machine Learning that includes defining and modeling data to get the right answers. He shows a demo where the program was trained to writ...