Amsterdam Java User Group

 
 
 

Agenda

• 18:00 Doors open.
• 18:15 Asian food and drinks ready (Thanks Code Nomads & OpenValue Amsterdam for hosting and sponsoring us!)
• 19:00 Talk 1 starts: "Service Mesh for Java Developers" by Viktor Gamov
• 19:45 short break
• 20:00 Talk 2 starts: "Developer Productivity Engineering: What's In It For Me?" by Trisha Gee
• 20:45-21:30 drinks & networking

Information about the talks:

Title: Service Mesh for Java Developers

Service Mesh is the future of application connectivity. It delivers immediate value to architecture by increasing our application traffic's security, reliability, and observability. It abstracts the underlying network details and provides discovery, routing, and a variety of other functionality.

In this service mesh presentation, Viktor will show you how easy it is to get started (in Kubernetes) - how to install a control plane, deploy a JVM-based demo application (using popular Java frameworks like Spring Boot, Micronaut, etc), enable traffic policies, and touch on observability.

About Viktor Gamov
Viktor Gamov is a Principal Developer Advocate at Kong, a cloud API connectivity company. Viktor has comprehensive expertise in building distributed systems and cloud-native architectures using open source technologies. He enjoys helping architects and developers design and develop low latency, scalable, and highly available systems.

He is a professional conference speaker on distributed systems, streaming data, JVM, and DevOps topics. He’s regular on events including JavaOne, Devoxx, SpringOne, QCon, and others. He co-authored books O’Reilly’s «Enterprise Web Development» and Manning’s «Apache Kafka® in Action.» He blogs at http://gamov.io and co-hosts KongCast https://pod.link/kongcast. Follow Viktor on Twitter @gamussa, where he posts about gym life, food, open-source, and Kong and Cloud.

Title: "Developer Productivity Engineering: What's In It For Me?"

Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE) is the Next Big Thing in Software Development. But what is it? How will it foster Developer Joy? And how can you introduce it to your organization?

It may surprise you to learn that we developers are a patient, tolerant species. People pay us to do what we enjoy: write code and create working applications. In return, we will put up with all sorts of blockages and toil that get in the way of this: long build times, flaky tests, hard-to-debug toolchain failures and so on.

Is this truly the price we need to pay? Could there be a better world, where the build is as fast as it could possibly be? A world where problems that affect many developers are quickly identified and fixed?

Welcome to the world of Developer Productivity Engineering, where we can get computers to do what they’re good at (automation) to make developers’ lives easier, and make us more effective at our jobs. And while developer joy may be a difficult thing to sell to decision-makers, effective developers who are making the best use of their time, and their hardware, have a direct impact on an organization’s ROI.

In this talk, Trisha will explore what DPE is, give you some practical ways to get started, and discuss ways to help the leaders in your organisation to understand the enormous value DPE could unlock.

About Trisha Gee
Trisha is a Java Champion and author. Trisha has developed Java applications for a range of industries of all sizes, including finance, manufacturing and non-profit, and she's a lead developer advocate at Gradle. She has expertise in Java high performance systems and dabbles with Open Source development.

Trisha’s exceptionally passionate about sharing things that help real developers. That might be: getting them up to speed on the latest version of Java; teaching them tips and tricks to improve their productivity; or promoting healthy technical communities across the globe. Trisha values helping all developers level up their careers and skills at every step of their journey.