What we’re about
Welcome to the newest virtual home of the Philadelphia Area Java Users’ Group, twice rated by Sun as one of the world’s top Java User Groups! The Philly JUG’s main objective is to provide great learning events for our membership, and if you look at our history we’ve done just that. Over the past fifteen+ years the Philly JUG has done quite a bit of growing up. Very few of you might remember our first meeting, where about 35 members sat on the floor in the office of a long departed dot com. If you have been to a meeting recently you know how far we have come.
Current Philly JugMaster: Jason Young.
Upcoming events (2)
See all- Electric Clojure: Differential Dataflow for UICertara, Radnor, PA
Electric Clojure is a new way to build rich, interactive web applications on the JVM. It leverages Clojure's unique capabilities to offer a properly composable solution to frontend/backend state management—an area that, over the last decade, has overtaken ORMs as the “Vietnam of computer science.”
Electric uses a compiler (via macros) to infer the frontend/backend boundary from unified code—placing frontend and backend logic in the same expression!—and automatically generates the full-stack app.
This means frontend development can finally move beyond the incredible complexity of frontend/backend sync machinery, so that us developers can build more sophisticated, interactive applications than ever before.
This talk will introduce Electric, dive into its elegantly simple DAG-based composition model, and show how it enables seamless interweaving of frontend and backend processes into a choreographed, high-performance dance—all without sacrificing Clojure’s straightforward, functional-lite composition model that anybody can understand.
Topic list:
- Frontend/Backend State Management, the New Vietnam of Computer Science
- Process Supervision (yes like Erlang), but for Web Applications
- Signals vs Streams, and why it matters
- Functional effect systems, and what they get you
- The resurgence of Functional Reactive Programming
- Differential Dataflow, and why it matters in web development
- What is Functional Programming even for, actually? What does it let you do that you couldn't do before?
Dustin Getz is the creator of Electric Clojure and founder of Hyperfiddle, a rapid UI development tool for building high-fidelity enterprise workbench frontends for your Java backends in minutes not months. Follow him at twitter.com/dustingetz.
About the venue: Certara accelerates medicines to patients, using biosimulation (modeling and simulation) and technology-enabled services to transform drug discovery and development. Our integrated and proprietary end-to-end platform with generative AI technology, biosimulation, regulatory science, and market access solutions combined with our global 1,400+ strong team of scientists and experts enable informed decision-making, higher R&D productivity, and improved patient outcomes. - Lightning (Fast Startups) in the JarCertara, Radnor, PA
Project Leyden is coming! Since the rise in popularity of microservice architectures in the mid-2010s, and serverless a few years later, the importance of startup and time to peak performance have become metrics of increasing concerns in the software development world.
The JVM is fast, incredibly fast, with throughput comparing favorably to even natively-compiled languages like C++ and Rust. However the JVM is a VM, which means it has historically lagged behind in startup and warm up.
That is what Project Leyden, an OpenJDK project, is seeking to change. In this presentation we will look at the goals and features that are coming with Project Leyden, and how they will help improve startup and time to peak performance on the JVM.
About the Speaker
Billy Korando
Billy is a Java Developer Advocate with the Java Platform Group at Oracle. With over a decade of experience in Java, Billy brings a passion for helping developers reduce tedious work, such as project initiation, deployment, testing, and validation, through automation and adopting the latest features and tools in the Java ecosystem. Outside of work, Billy enjoys traveling, playing kickball, and cheering on the Kansas City Chiefs. Billy also co-organizes the Kansas City Java users group.About the Sponsor
Certara (https://www.certara.com)
Certara accelerates medicines to patients, using biosimulation (modeling and simulation) and technology-enabled services to transform drug discovery and development. Our integrated and proprietary end-to-end platform with generative AI technology, biosimulation, regulatory science, and market access solutions combined with our global 1,400+ strong team of scientists and experts enable informed decision-making, higher R&D productivity, and improved patient outcomes.
