Lightning Talks
Details
For our first event of 2020 our session will be a series of lightning talks (short talks from 5-20 minutes in length) on a variety of topics.
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Speaker: Vasilis Nicolaou
What is functional programming and how you can use it to write better Java code?
Lots of libraries are built in the Java ecosystem recently, that follow a more functional style. From resilience4j, reactive types (e.g. Mono and Flux for Spring) to the core java Stream and Optional. There's also a lot of scary words being thrown around which may hold a team back from adapting these new approaches. Can we think about Functional Programming from more simple roots and build our understanding from basic fundamentals? What are the benefits we can get from using the FP paradigm?
What are the limitations that Java has in this journey and what libraries can help us get the maximum value out of Java doing FP.
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Speaker: Paul D'Ambra
A lightning talk sharing everything I've learned about Agile from the Gang of Four
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Speaker: Neil Coffey
Lambdas and Streams in Practice
You know the principles of functional programming and some of the options for adopting FP in Java. This talk aims to delve a little more deeply into the implementation of lambdas and the “core” Java Stream API and consider their use from a practical perspective. Drawing on experience of integrating lambdas into existing pre-Java 8 code bases, we will consider some of the main benefits, tradeoffs and Things That Developers Should Know when it comes to adopting lambdas and streams.
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Speaker: Simon Dudley
A Java Dev in a Machine Learning Land
How a self-service data platform unlocks the potential for any developer to build intelligent data-driven products
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Speaker: Nick Ebbitt
Monitoring the JVM on Kubernetes with Prometheus
A practical introduction to monitoring a JVM based application on Kubernetes with Prometheus.
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Food & refreshments will be provided. Thanks as always to Auto Trader, our amazing hosts.
Thanks to our main sponsor, Codurance.