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LLMs and Java Standards, BCE, JFR and Testing Strategies--138th airhacks tv: 📎

The 2025.09 edition of airhacks.tv with the following topics:
JFR and JMC for production monitoring, event-based logging instead of traditional logs, CloudWatch anomaly detection, log less with more meaningful events, BCE architecture for LLM-friendly code generation, package-info.java importance for LLMs, zero-dependency approach benefits, infrastructure as code with Java, serverful vs serverless architectural differences, MicroProfile and Jakarta EE standards advantage with LLMs, component-based architecture, domain-driven naming conventions, configuration management strategies, end-to-end testing practices, Visual Studio Code setup for Java development

and these answered questions:

  1. What is the best way to search your Q&A to find topics covered before?
  2. Is there a log analyzing framework that you would recommend for real-time monitoring?
  3. What do you recommend as a best practice to monitor an application?
  4. Does it matter how the logs are formatted (XML, JSON versus raw text)?
  5. How will you organize configuration classes like logger produces, custom beans and helper classes in the BCE architecture?
  6. What plugins do you recommend for Visual Studio Code?
  7. When you write an end-to-end test, in general, do you write those in separate projects?
  8. When performing an end-to-end test, how specific do you like the
...is ready to watch: