Category: conference
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Digesting Microservices at muCon
On Friday, I had the privilege of presenting at the very first Microservices conference – muCon. In my talk, Engineering Sanity into Microservices, I spoke about the technical issues surrounding state in distributed systems as a whole, how these become a bigger problem as the number of deployed services goes up, and a few suggested…
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Get Functional
That was the message that was coming through the Devoxx conference presentations this year. The idea that it will help your code run in the brave new world of multi everything (multi-core, multi-thread etc.) is one that’s widely touted, but rarely the primary driver for its use. Instead, it’s about less code, that’s more easily…
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Sucky Way to End a Great Conference
I just got this in the mail this morning “The JavaOne conference team has been notified by the San Francisco Department of Public Health about an identified outbreak of a virus in the San Francisco area. Testing is still underway to identify the specific virus in question, but they believe it to be the Norovirus,…
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Pimping Builds
From the Pimp My Build session by the Atlassian guys. Use Ant imports. The imported stuff can check for preconditions and fail cleanly using the <fail unless=”…”> tag. Use macros. Don’t build stuff you don’t need using the <uptodate> task. Use <outofdate> from ant-contrib, which is even better. You can use audio snippets to tell…
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Service Integration with SCA and Tuscany
The nice thing about JavaOne is that if you can’t get into the session that you wanted, the fall-back option probably kicks butt anyway 🙂 Having missed out on the Grails/JFX/Android combo, I had the pleasure of getting the low down on Apache Tuscany, an open source Service Component Architecture(SCA) implementation. Tuscany is really about…
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CommunityOne First Impressions
Well. it’s true what they say about Americans. They like to do things big. I hadn’t had my head around exactly what 15000 people at a conference would look like, but I’m slowly beginning to. Moscone is bloody huge! All this space, and I’m having trouble finding a coffee though 🙁 Thankfully can see folks…
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JavaOne Flights and Accomodation at the Last Minute
Despite the fact that is the world’s biggest conference out there, it seems that San Francisco is more than capable of dealing with it. I booked my flights a few weeks back, and have planned to stay with friends, but buying stuff at the last minute is definitely an option since neither cost nor availability…
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JavaOne Flights Booked
Everything is finally booked and I am looking forward to hitting the shores of San Francisco next weekend. The lineup looks really good and I’m still having difficulty choosing between the sessions. I will also be at CommunityOne, which looks outstanding for a free event. 14 tracks!? Amazing! Hats must go off to the organizers.…
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JavaOne Pre-booking
I finally got around to booking in onto some of the tech sessions for JavaOne in San Francisco next month. Gasp! The amount of stuff going on is incredible. From new languages on the JVM (Fortress, Scala, JRuby) to SOA, mobility and techniques in app development it’s pretty easy to book up 12 hours a…
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Desktop Apps made easier, JavaFX and that ESB thing…
Isn’t it always the way, when you want to blog other stuff comes up? I had intended to write up a final post about the last day of Tech Days, but the weather has been great to get the kite out and the holiday is winding down so… Day 3 was pretty cool, as I…