How to Build Java Applications Today: #56
Tags: java, bpf
Published: 2021-10-04 21:47:07

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## TL;DR
This newsletter switches from weekly publication to a monthly one.

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## README
Welcome to my newsletter “How To Build Java Applications Today”! I read all the Java newsletters so **you** don’t have to! And it’s “Java news with a smile”.

If you like my newsletter, then [subscribe to it on Substack](https://bpfnl.substack.com)! Or read it on [dev.to](https://dev.to/ksilz/series/11995) or [Medium](https://ksilz.medium.com). Even better: Share it with people who may be interested.

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## What is Changing?
This is a special issue as there's **no content** today: I switch this newsletter **from weekly publication** (every Monday) **to monthly publication** (first Monday of the month). The **next issue is due Monday, November 1, 2021**.

## Why is it Changing?
For more than a year, I published a newsletter every Monday night. There are two reasons why I don't want to do this anymore.
**Time**
Between [my start-up](https://yourhomeingoodhands.co.uk/), [my writing at InfoQ](https://www.infoq.com/profile/Karsten-Silz/) and [my conference talks](https://betterprojectsfaster.com/learn/#conference-talks), I don't want to take the 4-5 hours **every** Monday evening to write this newsletter. And that time includes at least half an hour of overhead: Putting the newsletter on [Substack](https://bpfnl.substack.com), [dev.to](https://dev.to/ksilz/series/11995), and [Medium](https://ksilz.medium.com), broadcasting it on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Xing. By going monthly, I cut down this overhead by 75%.

**Quality**
I try to have 1-2 articles each week that where I mix reporting the news with my opinions. For instance, [last week](https://bpfnl.substack.com/p/how-to-build-java-applications-today-f2c) I discussed Oracle’s Ron Pressler's opinion on why we Java developers don't upgrade quickly to newer Java versions. But sometimes the 1-2 hours I can devote to such an article aren't enough - like last week: I missed at least one crucial point there. I want to write better articles - and publishing just once a month gives me more time to do this.

## What is Next?
The next issue of this newsletter is due **Monday, November 1**, 4 weeks from today. 

If you need to know about Java library & tool releases weekly: Follow the **[Java news on InfoQ](https://www.infoq.com/java/news/)** for the weekly round-up every Monday morning. Here's [this week's issue](https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/10/java-news-roundup-sep27-2021/?topicPageSponsorship=ef2f32ea-8615-496e-9ac7-58dffbfe1766).

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## About
Karsten Silz is the author of this newsletter. He is a full-stack web & mobile developer with 22 years of Java experience, author, speaker, and marathon runner. Karsten got a Master's degree in Computer Science at the Dresden University of Technology (Germany) in 1996.

Karsten has worked in Europe and the US. He co-founded a software start-up in the US in 2004. Karsten led product development for 13 years and left after the company was sold successfully. He co-founded the UK SaaS start-up "[Your Home in Good Hands](https://yourhomeingoodhands.co.uk/)" as CTO in 2020. Since 2019, Karsten also works as a contractor in the UK.

Karsten has [this newsletter](https://bpfnl.substack.com/), a [developer website](https://betterprojectsfaster.com/), and a [contractor site](https://ksilz.com/). He's on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ksilz/), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/karsilz), and [GitHub](https://github.com/ksilz). Karsten is also an [author at InfoQ](https://www.infoq.com/profile/Karsten-Silz).