Dion Almaer
Salt Lake Software Symposium
Salt Lake City · August 19 - 20, 2005

CTO of Adigio
Dion Almaer is the founder and CTO of Adigio, Inc. He is an architect, mentor, pragmatic, and evangelist of technologies such as J2EE, JDO, AOP, and Groovy. He is the Editor-in-Chief of TheServerSide.com J2EE Community and enjoys working in the community. He is a member of the Java Community Process, where he participates on various expert groups.
Presentations
Give the DB a break!: Performance and Scalability
What do we really mean by “performance” and “scalability”? This talk gets into the meat of problems which cause our applications to degrade. We will focus on issues such as problems caused by the database being a bottleneck for our application, and see how we can architect our solutions to bypass the issues, resulting in a solid system which scales with the increased load.
Not only will we look at the factors, but I will delve into a couple of case studies to show how real world problems were solved!
Rules Engines
Rules engines are powerful beasts which allow you to program in a way in which you specific rules and facts, rather than a linear set of instructions.
Learn about how you can use Rules Engines in Java development to take care of complicated problems.
Clean scalable builds with Maven
Our build systems have migrated from make to Ant. While Ant does a good job in many ways, is it the right tool for the job? This session talks about taking builds to the next level, looking at tools such as Maven to make your life easier.
How to be Groovy
What? Another programming language? Are you kidding me? That is what we often feel when something new comes around, and is something you may be feeling about Groovy. However, Groovy could fit a niche for you in your daily toil. It is the swiss army nice that Perl/Ruby are, yet lets you work in a more structured way, and plays nice with the millions of lines of code already written on top of the Java Virtual Machine.