Essential Spring Boot and Serverless Spring - Craig Walls

5:30pm - Pizza and Networking. Pizza and soft drinks provided by Aurora Pangallo of TEKsystems. Beer and water provided by Abbey Overlee of PeerSource.

6:00pm - Announcements

6:05pm - Essential Spring Boot - Craig Walls

In this session, you'll learn how to streamline your Spring development utilizing the four essential features of Spring Boot: auto-configuration, starter dependencies, the Actuator, and the Spring Boot CLI.

7:05pm - 7:20pm - Break

7:20pm - Serverless Spring - Craig Walls

Serverless is a big topic these days. More specifically, Function as a Service (FaaS) enables small-scale functions deployed in the cloud to be enabled only as needed. Compared to Platform as a Service (PaaS) services which are “always on” and require explicit scaling, FaaS services wake up when needed and are scaled by the platform automatically.

Imagine a service that only gets invoked one per hour. In PaaS, that service is always running and ready to handle requests, consuming processor resources and ultimately costing more to be ready at a moment's notice. In contrast, FaaS services awaken quickly upon invocation and go away when finished, conserving resources and cost.

In this example-driven session, we'll see how to create and deploy Function as a Service (FaaS) services with Spring and Spring Boot.

Craig Walls is a senior engineer with Pivotal and is the author of Spring in Action and Spring Boot in Action. He's a zealous promoter of the Spring Framework, speaking frequently at local user groups and conferences and writing about Spring. When he's not slinging code, Craig is planning his next trip to Disney World or Disneyland and spending as much time as he can with his wife, two daughters, 2 birds and 3 dogs.

8:20pm - JetBrains giveaway.

8:30pm - After-meeting gathering at Fox and Hound, 9239 Park Meadows Dr, Lone Tree, CO 80124. Sponsored by Jeremy Crum and Innovar Group.