Becca ReffordAbstract Interested in where Java is going, or the motivation for some of its past choices? Brian Goetz, who lead the evolution of the Java Language, joined by guest facilitator Nicolai Parlog, is here to answer your questions! About Brian Goetz Brian Goetz is the Java Language Architect at Oracle, and was the specification lead … Read More
Abstract Interfaces are one of the most powerful Go features. They allow you to develop applications and libraries that are flexible, re-usable, and testable. Like other programming languages, interfaces allow you to abstract behavior without prescribing how objects implement them. Unlike other programming languages, however, Go favors small interfaces and implements them implicitly. This concept … Read More
Abstract Working on a large monolithic codebase is cumbersome. No single person has an overview of all functionality. Evolving the software becomes slow and the risk of breaking something increases. Adopting new technologies requires a lot of effort. The microservices pattern solved a lot of these issues. However, in most projects, it’s only applied to … Read More
Abstract Everyone seems to be talking about measuring and improving developer productivity… but do we even know what that means? (Protip: you can’t just count lines of code.) Dr. Nicole Forsgren will present her latest research on developer productivity: common myths, the dimensions (captured in a handy acronym, SPACE), and example metrics. You’ll also get … Read More
Abstract For decades, mainstream programming languages have drawn similar boundaries around what’s a first-class part of the language and what’s a third-party addition outside the scope of the language. For example, the language ships with a compiler that reads text files and compiles programs. The package and editor plugin ecosystems are completely separate. Compiled programs … Read More
Abstract In this guided demo, we are going to look at 3 different techniques that are remarkably powerful in combination to cut through legacy code without having to go through the bother of reading or understanding it. The techniques are: Combination Testing: to get 100% test coverage quickly Code Coverage as guidance: to help us … Read More
Abstract Over the past 5 years, cloud infrastructure has gone from a tax, cost-center, and afterthought – to being central to how modern businesses are reinventing themselves and innovating through cloud software. Infrastructure is no longer “boring.” As a practitioner trying to succeed in this brave new world, though, what does this mean? It means … Read More
Abstract In this talk, Ada will introduce the Web Standards which allow you to do Augmented Reality on the Web, including how those specifications are developed and what’s coming down the road for AR and VR on the Web. About Ada Rose Cannon Ada Rose Cannon is a Developer Advocate for the privacy focused web … Read More
Abstract Chaos engineering is a disciplined approach to identifying failures before they become outages. By proactively testing how a system responds under stress, you can identify and fix failures before they end up in the news. Chaos engineering lets you compare what you think will happen to what actually happens in your systems. You literally … Read More
Abstract Like many companies, John Deere has outgrown its data centers and moved to the cloud. In this talk I recount a few different types of migrations and transformations as we moved from our small town to the big city. This includes moving a high volume transactional monolith from Moline Illinois to AWS with only … Read More
