06.06.2026 –, ZKM Vortragssaal Sprache: English
Bagels are bread rolls with a hole, or pretzels with fewer holes, and are wonderful baked goods. Whether they are served with cream cheese and lox or hummus, there is probably nothing better than a fresh bagel. But did you know that bagels have a truly interesting history? From medieval German monasteries to Poland, and from the Jewish diaspora in New York and Montréal.
So in this talk, I'll be covering the important questions of our time: Where does the Bagel come from? Where do you get the best Bagels (Montréal or New York)? And how do all these doughnuts with rigor mortis differ? And of course, you'll learn how to bake a proper bagel.
Come by and learn more than you ever wanted to know about Bagels, after you hopefully ate a delicious Bagel at the WOC (from 12 am to 3 pm).
For a full list of my sources and even more Bagel knowledge: https://pad.mostlynerdless.de/s/8MqudkmgM
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Johannes Bechberger is a JVM developer working on profilers and their underlying technology in the SapMachine team at SAP. This includes improvements to async-profiler and its ecosystem, a website to view the different JFR event types, and improvements to the FirefoxProfiler, making it usable in the Java world. His work today comprises many open-source contributions and his blog, where he regularly writes on in-depth profiling and debugging topics. He also works on hello-ebpf, the first eBPF library for Java. His most recent contribution is the new CPU Time Profiler in JDK 25.