Articles and news¶
February 27, 2025
Manfred Moser and Cole Bowden are joined by Jan Waś in "Trino Community Broadcast 71: Fake it real good" to learn about the new Faker connector and the Datafaker library. You can find the episode here:
https://trino.io/episodes/71.html
July 16, 2024
Roman Rybak published an article titled "Datafaker Gen: Leveraging BigQuery Sink on Google Cloud Platform". You can find it here: https://dzone.com/articles/datafaker-gen-leveraging-bigquery-sink-on-google
May 31, 2024
Michael Vitz had a talk at Spring I/O which was a perfect fit for Datafaker, related to Advanced Testing Techniques for Spring Boot applications. The reference to Datafaker can be found 19 minutes into the presentation, but it's recommended to watch the whole presentation, it contains a lot of great content related to testing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn9P38o03TQ&t=1124s
May 15, 2024
Elias Nogueira had a talk at Devoxx UK called "Datafaker: the most powerful fake data generator". You can find the talk here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6Z7vB5zc0g
Feb 22, 2024
Roman Rybak published an article about Flexible Data Generation With Datafaker Gen, which you can find here: https://dzone.com/articles/flexible-data-generation-with-datafake-gen
December 4, 2023
Datafaker: Simplifying Test Data Generation for Java and Kotlin article by Nexus Blog, which you can find here:
June 15, 2023
We published an article on DZone about major release of Datafaker 2.0, which you can find here: https://dzone.com/articles/datafaker-20
June 9, 2023
Christophe Vaudry started writing a French series about Datafaker, which you can find here:
October 20, 2022
Eugene Kovko wrote an excellent getting started guide for Baeldung, which you can find here:
https://www.baeldung.com/java-datafaker
October 11, 2022
Jaap Coomans, who also helped contribute data to Datafaker, updated his excellent presentation which now features Datafaker to help in generating real looking test data:
https://youtu.be/HZoHzp4Rb3E?t=730
July 17, 2022
Philip Riecks updated his Javafaker article by using Datafaker instead:
https://rieckpil.de/howto-generate-random-data-in-java-using-java-faker/
May 22, 2022
We published an article on DZone to demonstrate some of the new features of Datafaker:
https://dzone.com/articles/datafaker-a-solid-alternative-to-using-production
March 5, 2022
We were mentioned as featured library of the day, by The Artifact Podcast:
The Artifact: Multicloud vs polycloud, Jakarta EE and other news (Ep 3) on Apple Podcasts (24:40)
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-artifact/id1609827559?i=1000553024398
February 13, 2022
Coffee and Tips wrote a tutorial about how to generate random data using Datafaker:
https://www.coffeeandtips.com/post/how-to-generate-random-data-using-datafaker-lib
February 11, 2022
Piotr Minkowski was one of the first people to tweet about Datafaker:
https://twitter.com/piotr_minkowski/status/1491780736847810560/photo/1
January 4, 2022
The first article by Jworks which is about how to use Datafaker to be an alternative for using production data.
https://jworks.io/datafaker-an-alternative-to-production-data/