Java
Past Presentations
Deep Learning for Application Performance Optimization
Application performance has direct impact on business and scaling ability. Performance tuning usually involves periodically setting a number of parameters that control run-time environment including CPU, memory, threading, garbage collection, etc. In this session we present our experience and...
Java 11 - Keeping the Java Release Train on the Right Track
Java is now on a fast six-month release cycle. Many enterprises had just finished moving to Java 8 with its new features when Java 9 came out last September 2017. And as of today, the current release of the JDK is 10. These releases will provide enhancements to the JVM and the Java language and...
Invest in Your Java Katalogue
Companies had barely migrated to Java 8 when it was announced that Java would follow a 6-month release cycle. Java 9 was released last October and is already EOSL. Java 10 has now been released, but will become old news in September with the release of Java 11. For many...
"Yo... Ask Me Anything" - Panel of NY Senior Java Developers
Join 5 senior technologists from major enterprises in the New York area discuss their thoughts on the latest trends in Java. We'll discuss thoughts on the new release model, modules, modern garbage collectors, kotlin for the enterprise, Eclipse stewardship of JEE and even the rising...
Effective Java, Third Edition - Keepin' it Effective
Since its release in 2001, Effective Java has been the de facto standard best-practices guide for the Java platform. The book was last updated in 2008, when Java 6 was released. In the intervening decade, the platform has had three major releases, introducing many new language and library...
Reactive Programming for Java Developers
The JDK 9 java.util.concurrent.Flow class implements features from the Reactive Streams spec that provide non-blocking concurrency by supporting "push" style operations for items from an active source as they become available. This is the tip of the iceberg on the quest for reactive programming...
Interviews
Reactive Programming for Java Developers
How would you describe the persona of the target audience of this talk? Is it aimed at someone who is currently working with Spring MVC app? Will you be talking about the Reactor Project?
If you are a Spring developer, this is certainly an important talk if you want to understand one of the major things coming to Spring Framework 5.
Read Full InterviewJava 11 - Keeping the Java Release Train on the Right Track
Tell us a bit about the work that you are doing today.
I work for a large bank in New York City on the DevOps team, and we're automating the pipeline to enable continuous deployments to production. We've been doing automation for a lot of years. My team does a lot of coding and mentoring of others. It's amazing how much automation there is in order to get something to work for a lot of...
Read Full InterviewWhy Bother With Kotlin - Not Just Another Language Tour
Why should a developer come to this talk?
The way I like to describe Kotlin is that it has a lot of the advanced features that as a Java developer I'd look at Scala for. These are things that I think would be so nice if I could do it in Java. Kotlin has some of these nicer features, but it doesn't have all the complexity that Scala has. For me, Kotlin is a nice middle ground...
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