Welcome to the “Locked Down Dependencies” remote recorded using Squadcast.fm whilst both Greg and I are stuck in a national COVID-19 lockdown.

Full links to topics discussed can be found in the shared bookmark folder on Raindrop, but during tonights episode we discuss:

• How lockdown is affecting us
• The Release of Java 14
• Beyond Java 8 and the Java Module System - a discussion over two recent streams/videos from Nicolai Parlog on new features in Java 9-14, and issues with the module system.
• Maven Dependency Pop Quiz
• Managing Technical Debt at scale, and designing large scale systems.
• Improving communication among teams in a work-from-home/remote-work world.
• Guides to writing technical documentation, test plans, better emails and bug reports.