Amsterdam JUG Meetup at AWS

This Amsterdam JUG meetup will be hosted by AWS in their office at Mr.Treublaan 7, 1097 JS Amsterdam, and sponsored by AWS and Azul.

Logistics

• The AWS office is known as AMS13 and locally the building is referred to as The Cloud. The event will take place on the 4th floor.
• There is no free parking, but there is a parking place at Ringdijk 99, 1097 AH, Amsterdam, operated by ParkBee (link to pre-book) but you can also scan the QR code to start a parking session at the entrance.
• There are many public transportation options to access AMS13. The closest metro and train station is Amsterdam Amstel.
• Catering will be inclusive for vegetarians and vegans.

Agenda

• 18:30 Doors open, food, and welcome to AWS!
• 19:00 Talk 1: Simon Ritter (Deputy CTO at Azul and Java Champion) presenting “30 Years of Java - How Did We Get Here?”
• 19:45 Break
• 20:00 Talk 2: James Ward (AWS Developer Advocate, Java Champion) and Josh Long (Spring Developer Advocate at Broadcom, Java Champion) presenting “Building AI Agents with Spring & MCP”
• 20:45 Networking
• 21:30 End

Information about the talks:

Talk 1: Simon Ritter (Azul) presenting “30 Years of Java - How Did We Get Here?”

May 23rd, 1995, saw the launch of not just a new programming language but an entire development and deployment platform. Initially targeted at the brand-new world of browsers and the World Wide Web, it quickly became the de facto standard for internet-scale enterprise applications.

Remarkably, thirty years later, it is still always in the top three most popular languages in use by developers. How did this happen?

In this session, we'll take a whirlwind tour of the history of Java, recalling many of the milestones along the way. I started working for Sun Microsystems in February 1996, roughly the same week JDK 1.0 was launched. Through fourteen years at Sun, five at Oracle and nearly ten at Azul, I'll bring plenty of anecdotes about Java's history (and some souvenirs).

Be prepared for some serious developer nostalgia!

Talk 2: James Ward (AWS) and Josh Long (Broadcom) presenting “Building AI Agents with Spring & MCP”

AI is here, but is it working for you? The name of the game is to give these AI models access to our enterprise systems and services and let 'er rip!

But it's not always easy. We have a friend whose stress level trying to build production-worthy Python AI services was so high that his hairline receded TWELVE INCHES!

Or that might have just been natural aging...

Either way: he should've used Spring AI!

Join us, AWS developer advocate James Ward and his trusty sidekick and Spring developer advocate Josh Long, and we'll look at how to build MCP-enabled, RAG-ready, vibe-free, agentic systems and services in no time at all.