Track: Sponsored Solutions Track 3

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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.

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 C4Media - the producer of InfoQ.com and QCon events - Nitin continues to pursue his primary passion: helping spread knowledge and innovation throughout the enterprise software development community.
10:35am - 11:25am

by Nicole White
Data Scientist @Neo4J

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) recently released the Panama Papers as a downloadable Neo4j database. In this session, we’ll show you how to use Neo4j 3 to analyze the Panama Papers dataset from Python — discovering the connections between corporations, their officers, and intermediaries.

The Py2neo library we’ll use takes advantage of the new Bolt binary protocol for Neo4j which enables more seamless interoperability due to common data types being...

11:50am - 12:40pm

by Kishore Bhatia
Principal Solution Architect @CloudBees

How can I build my Docker images, and ensure that they are tested before they are published?

How do I trigger a re-build when dependent images are pushed to Docker Hub?

How do I trace a running container back to the correct version of the source that it was built from?

How can I assemble all these steps into a single robust pipeline?

How does Jenkins Pipeline-as-code help enable automatic job creation for new branches, entire new projects, and fully automates pull...

1:40pm - 2:30pm

by Jonathan Kaufman
Developer Advocate for IBM Emerging Technology

The more we interact with “smart apps,” the more we hear the word “cognitive” being thrown around. But what actually does this imply? What is a cognitive application? Can I make my app smarter? Can I make my app cognitive? In this session we'll be covering what these buzzwords mean and how to enhance your application with IBM Watson services.

We'll build up an application from scratch and we'll discuss how to integrate Watson into your existing application.

2:55pm - 3:45pm

by Aravind Venkatanaranappa
Product Manager @Thoughtworks

by Suzie Prince
Head of Product @Thoughtworks

Are you sure you are doing continuous delivery? Yeah right! We thought we were too.

The journey to continuous delivery (CD) is long, winding and always evolving. Like with many things we thought we had achieved all we could with continuous delivery and then... our business model changed, and then... we decided to take something open source and then... we started a SaaS CD product from scratch. We soon realized that we weren’t doing all we could to continuously deliver. Come learn from...

4:10pm - 5:00pm

by Mat Henshall
Head of Things @ThoughtWorks

When the organizers of QCon came to ThoughtWorks to help create a solution to capturing session feedback, an epic journey was started. In this talk we walk through the process, decision making and tooling of creating a custom piece of hardware as part of a broader solution. It is easier and cheaper than it has ever been. However, in order deliver on that promise, the team had to accept the challenge of novel constraints and solve problems holistically. Many of the agile and human centered...

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