Becca ReffordTom Purcell, a consultant and founding member of the Chariot Solutions team, has seen technology come and go. On our 20th anniversary in business, Tom gives us a humorous look back to the tools and technologies that came, went, and stayed since Chariot became a company in 2002.
Abstract The Java Platform has seen a tremendous amount of evolution and improvements over the past five years in many different areas, including: language features in Java, Kotlin, and Scala; Functional Programming; dev environments; test workflows; Reactive; Stream processing; distributed data; containerization; serverless; and AoT compilation. This talk will give you a tour of the … Read More
Abstract In a world…. Where teams are distributed, asynchronous, and working across cultural and language differences, one tool emerges to save us all from off-hours meetings… Although this sounds like an ad for a new SaaS product that will be like all the others, it’s actually about something you all can do right now – … Read More
Abstract Addressing tech debt can feel like a Sisyphean task. After weeks of work, the success case is for the system to work the same as it used to. Organizations often declare code bankruptcy and rewrite working systems from scratch. How do we end up here? How could we have avoided it? And how do … Read More
Abstract For the sixth year in a row, Rust was declared the most loved programming language in the Stack Overflow 2021 developer survey, and there’s been an explosion of companies such as AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Huawei publicly discussing, contributing to, and investing in the language. In this talk, Rust core team member, Ashley, will … Read More
Abstract Hi, Spring fans! This year is going to be a big one for the Spring world! There’s a lot in store: Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3, Spring GraphQL, GraalVM native image support, and so much more. Requiring Java 17 and Jakarta EE 9 as the new baseline is enabling the Spring team … Read More
Abstract Learn about the global impact that software and technology is having in agriculture to help farmers run stronger businesses and steward the land for generations to come by unlocking improvements in profitability, efficiency and sustainability that are only possible through software & data analytics. In this talk we’ll cover the challenges faced by farmers … Read More
Abstract Tomo launched on June 30th, 2021, just about six months after we got the team on board and built our first prototype. In this talk I will share what we chose to invest in from the first month vs what we punted on for the future, some hard lessons learned, and what we have … Read More
Abstract Applications built using microservice architecture offer compelling benefits, however building them is hard and comes at a cost of having to understanding distributed systems. Developers should focus on business logic and instead they end up solving the same problems such as state management, resilient calls and event handling with limited portability across public clouds. … Read More
Abstract People love React for its simplicity: you can learn the basics in half a day, and bring your favorite tools and APIS and dive right in. But that rapid application development also comes at a cost: bloated, slow, unstable Single Page Applications that grind your browser to a halt. Tools like Next.js, Remix.run and … Read More
