Solutions Track I

Solutions Track.

Day of week:

Wednesday

Location:

Legends Ballroom - Gleason-Roebling

Presentations

Sustainable Software Development

11:30pm - 12:40pm

By: Alexander von Zitzewitz

Almost every non-trivial software system suffers from the accumulation of technical debt and structural erosion. With every new release quality metrics and developer productivity go down, while it becomes more and more difficult to change or maintain the system.

This session first looks at the technical and social causes of this industry wide problem. From there the focus will shift to possible solutions involving organizational changes, process improvements and tool-based fully automized control of quality metrics and architecture.
The DevOps Case for Hybrid: How to Get 100VMs On a Hybrid Cloud ... in Minutes

4:00am - 4:50am

By: John Wetherill

Hybrid is the future! Unless youre using Stackato, in which case, its here already! In this interactive session, ActiveState Developer Evangelist John Wetherill will show you how to manage applications and data across public and private cloud architectures with\ Stackato PaaS technology from ActiveState.

The presentation and demo will provide practical 'how-to' approaches for deploying hybrid cloud applications easily, quickly, and securely with Stackato
Polyglot Persistence - From NoSQL to HTML5

2:50pm - 3:40pm

By: Doug Clarke

Data is the fuel enterprises run on and the data access requirements of today's Java applications have grown to include JSON REST services for HTML5 and mobile clients, NoSQL database persistence, and multi-tenancy. Most developers use an assortment of independent frameworks to cope with each of these disparate requirements often having to copy and transform data from one format into another as it makes its way from database to browser and back again. Or they have to craft custom extensions to frameworks to provide features they were never designed to support. EclipseLink, best known as an open source provider of JPA for database access on the backend and JAXB for web services on the front end, has evolved to simplify the entire path from front to back. EclipseLink has added JSON binding to support HTML5 clients, zero code JAX-RS REST service support, NoSQL database persistence, and has integrated JPA with JAXB to make it easy to move data from database to XML or JSON and back again without data loss.

In this session we'll dive into EclipseLink's new services and build an application that goes from browser to database leveraging EclipseLink both in the back end for data persistence and on the front end for JSON over REST to HTML5 and JavaScript clients.
Data Movement at Very Large Scale: Real-World Examples in Capital Markets, Customer Service and Sensor Networks

1:40pm - 2:30pm

By: Ken Overton

Most big data strategies focus on storage and analytics, with the collection and distribution of all that information an afterthought. Using real-world examples of distributed big data systems in capital markets trading systems, mobile carrier customer service systems, and M2M sensor networks, this talk will discuss the value and challenges of efficiently moving information at big data scale. From the aggregation of distributed data for loading into Hadoop clusters to synchronizing terabyte-scale in-memory data grids across geographies, Ken will discuss techniques and tools that can increase the rate and efficiency of data flows within big data architectures.
Fun and games with enterprise software. Introducing the WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile and the interesting things you can do with it

10:20am - 11:10am

By: Tom Banks

This talk will cover several topics - starting with an introduction to the IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile which will showcase what it is and how it is improving the development experience the talk will then explore how the Liberty profile's extensible architecture allowed some interesting additions to "gamify" the running of enterprise software. The talk will also showcase what you can do when enterprise software becomes mobile and the implications this has. Finally the talk will showcase and discuss the IBM Code Rally game which is built on top of the Liberty Profile and other IBM software.
Riak, Latency, And Distributed Systems

5:10pm - 6:10pm

By: Tom Santero

Everything is distributed. Any engineer building a system that's running in production needs be aware that she is relying on a series of components, services, and processes that need to work together to deliver data to the customers. This is not easy, and the tools you pick to deploy will impact greatly your ability win users and increase revenue.

Riak is an open source, distributed database being used by companies like Comcast, AT&T, and GitHub in production. Like any database, it comes with a specfic set of tradeoff that make it suitable for a certain set of applications. In this talk, Tom will discuss Riak and the types of applications people are building on it with special attention paid to dealing with latencies in such a distributed system.