Transylvania JUG March 2024 meetup

## Details

Agenda
18.00 - 18.30: Reception
18.30 - 19.30: From Legacy to Leading-edge: Migrating from JEE to Spring Boot 3 and Java 21 with a Splash of Kotlin
> 19.30: Open Chat

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Speakers: Iulian

I am a software engineer with over 18 years of experience in developing, architecting, and managing software projects. Specializing in Java and Kotlin, I've led teams through complex projects, modernizing legacy systems, and implementing microservices architecture. My commitment to continuous learning has expanded my expertise across a broad range of technologies, from programming and databases to containerization and CI/CD.

Paul:

As a senior software engineer with 7 years under my belt, my focus has always been straightforward: to develop solutions that meet real-world needs, regardless of the technology stack. Having navigated through Java, Kotlin, Spring, and JEE for the backend, and dabbled in frontend and mobile with Flutter, my priority is not the tools themselves but how they can be leveraged to fix issues and improve lives. It's about making things work better, one line of code at a time.

From Legacy to Leading-edge: Migrating from JEE to Spring Boot 3 and Java 21 with a Splash of Kotlin

Our Path to Modernization: In this talk, we share our experience modernizing a legacy system to a cloud setup leveraging the latest in Java 21, Kotlin, and Spring Boot and Kubernetes. Despite the complexities and learning curves, we navigated these changes within a tight timeframe, making strategic decisions that we believe significantly advanced our system's agility, scalability, and performance. While we're proud of our progress, we acknowledge the vast landscape of software engineering always offers new territories to explore. Our journey is one of many