Mark Heckler
From Pivotal
Mark Heckler is a Pivotal Principal Technologist & Developer Advocate, conference speaker, and published author focusing upon software development for the Internet of Things and the Cloud. He has worked with key players in the manufacturing, retail, medical, scientific, telecom, and financial industries and various public sector organizations to develop and deliver critical capabilities on time and on budget. Mark is an open source contributor and author/curator of a developer-focused blog (http://www.thehecklers.org) and an occasionally interesting Twitter account (@MkHeck).
Mark lives with his very understanding wife in St. Louis, MO USA.
Architecture, Performance and Security
Microservices Minus the Hype: How to Build and Why
Few topics in software architecture discussions yield as much heat as that of microservices. Monolithic applications have dominated the landscape for years, and a large number of monoliths run a great many critical processes used to this day. More recently, companies with requirements for rapid release cycles and key "ilities" (maintainability, scalability, reliability, flexibility, extensibility) have chosen another approach, deploying functionality in more granular, API-driven modules: microservices.
In this session, the presenter will strip away the hype and speak frankly of the upsides & downsides of adopting a microservices architecture and why, with certain exceptions, the pros far outweigh the cons. Topics include Domain Driven Design & bounded contexts, increasing quality & velocity, horizontal vs. vertical scaling, portability, & more. The presenter will then show how to build & integrate microservices applications using Spring Boot, various data sources, & REST resources built to task. Load balancers, circuit breakers, tests, & other risk mitigation mechanisms will be demonstrated & discussed.
Leave this session knowing how and why to max out on microservices!
Java, JVM, Java SE/EE
The Spring BOF
Stéphane Nicoll
Marcin Grzejszczak
A BOF for all fans of Spring to talk about the latest and greatest tech, including Spring Boot, the convention-over-configuration centric framework built on top of Spring.
Methodology & Culture
This stuff is cool, but HOW CAN I GET MY COMPANY TO DO IT??!
Cloud Native, Docker, DevOps, microservices, and more: we go to conferences and get excited about the potential of so many things that could revolutionize our development and change our organizational and professional lives! And then, we go home...and hit the wall. If you've ever asked yourself, "This stuff is cool, but HOW CAN I GET MY COMPANY TO DO IT??!", this is the session for you.
Learn from an experienced software developer (who also happens to have an MBA) how to make your case to leadership, presenting management-ready justifications for changes in "your world" that will positively impact the business as a whole. Topics include:
- How would this change affect your organization's/group's/team's work?
- How would this change impact (positively and negatively) your tech stack (internal considerations)?
- How would this change contribute to recruitment/retention (external considerations)?
- Seeing beyond your borders: how could this change positively - and negatively - affect the business?
- Putting numbers with it: pros, cons, and caveats
Come to this session to dramatically boost your chances of making an actual, positive change to your organization!