Track Overview
Solutions Track III
Industry practitioners and technical product managers from leading vendors demonstrate solutions to some of today's toughest software development challenges in the areas of performance monitoring, Big Data, software delivery, scalability, and more.
From this track
Moving Towards JDK 12: New Features in Java
The new six-month release cadence for the JDK has seen more major releases of Java in the last eighteen months than in the previous ten years. In this session, we’ll look at how Java is changing, both from a technical perspective and from that of changes to release schedule, binary...
Simon Ritter
Deputy CTO @Azul
Containers for Java: Optimizing Your Applications
Are you curious of how you can package your Java applications as containers? Do you have concerns as to whether Java applications are fit for containers? Maybe you’ve already played around with putting a Java application in a container but you’ve noticed that your containers are not very...
Mofe Salami
Developer Advocate @IBM
Serverless Java: Challenges and Triumphs
Serverless Functions are hot and developer and corporate interest is exploding! But let’s face it, although Java is one of the most popular programming languages in the world it isn’t the most popular language for writing functions—at least not yet. According to James Governor, “When Web...
Shaun Smith
Serverless Product Management @Oracle
How to Feature Flag (Poorly) & Lessons Learned
Feature flags are a valuable DevOps technique to deliver better, more reliable software faster. Feature flags can be used for both release management (dark launches, canary rollouts, betas) as well as long term control (entitlement management, user segmentation personalization). However, if not...
Edith Harbaugh
CEO & co-founder @LaunchDarkly
Unleashing the Power of Redis
Redis is the perfect fit for microservices, distributed and cloud-agnostic applications in a containerized world. In today's consumer-driven world, application performance is increasingly important. Redis, the open-source NoSQL database, is known for its linear scalability in performance; recent...
Martin Visser
Solution Architect @RedisLabs
Building Autonomous Microservices
Everybody loves Microservices, but we all know how difficult it is to make it right. Distributed systems are much more complex to develop and maintain, and over time, we even miss the simplicity of old monoliths. In this talk, I propose a combination of Infrastructure, architecture, and design...
Denis Wilson Souza Rosa
Senior Developer Advocate @Couchbase
Speakers from this track
Simon Ritter
Deputy CTO @Azul
Simon Ritter is the Deputy CTO of Azul Systems. Simon has been in the IT business since 1984 and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Brunel University in the U.K.Simon joined Sun Microsystems in 1996 and started working with Java technology from JDK 1.0; he has spent time working...
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Mofe Salami
Developer Advocate @IBM
Mofe is a Developer Advocate for IBM who focuses his efforts on cloud computing and Java programming. As a Software Engineer he has a background in developing Java micro-services and using DevOps practices within an agile development team. Outside of work, Mofe is also passionate about software...
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Shaun Smith
Serverless Product Management @Oracle
Shaun Smith leads Serverless product management at Oracle and is a member of the open source Fn Project functions platform team. He's an experienced technical product manager and software developer active in open source and cloud service development. He is also a past committer on a number of...
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Edith Harbaugh
CEO & co-founder @LaunchDarkly
Edith Harbaugh is CEO & co-founder of LaunchDarkly. She has more than 15 years of experience in software engineering, including at the #1 travel app, TripIt. She is cohost of "To Be Continuous", a podcast on software trends by devops.com and a columnist for ReadWrite. She holds two patents in...
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Denis Wilson Souza Rosa
Senior Developer Advocate @Couchbase
Speaker and Developer Advocate at Couchbase, he started programming even before the college and never stopped coding since then. He is a Java & NoSQL specialist, open-source contributor, and an enthusiast of Microservices & DevOps
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Track Host
Nitin Bharti
Managing Editor and Product Manager, QCon and InfoQ
Over the last decade, Nitin has helped build several notable online developer communities including TheServerSide.com, DZone, and The Code Project. He is known for his extensive editorial work in the Enterprise Java, .NET, SOA, and Agile communities. As Managing Editor and Product Manager at...
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