Jan 2016: Chris Matts and Tom Akehurst

Chris Matts - Teaching your unicorn to fly and paint rainbows

It's fairly easy to teach a unicorn to fly, and not that much harder to teach them to paint rainbows. The problem of course is finding a unicorn. The same is true of defining micro-services. This mildly ranty workshop will explore the state of the art and then show a common sense approach.

@PapaChrisMatts (https://twitter.com/PapaChrisMatts)

Tom Akehurst - Continuous Delivery patterns with a JVM app + Heroku + SnapCI

In project we're working on at the moment we're deploying a JVM app (Ratpack) to Heroku via a Snap pipeline. So far so boring, but we've ended up doing a couple of counter-intuitive things e.g. to support the "build the binary only once" principle, and also to make it reasonably fast.

@TomAkehurst (https://twitter.com/TomAkehurst)