Brian Gilstrap
Gateway Software Symposium
St. Louis · May 21 - 23, 2010
Brian Gilstrap - Principal Software Engineer at Object Computing, Inc.
Brian Gilstrap is a Principal Software Engineer at Object Computing, Inc. where he has spent the last eleven of his 20+ years in the industry. In those years, he has worked with many languages and many technologies. He writes and blogs frequently, and has been on the steering committee of the St. Louis Java User's Group more than a decade. With OCI he provides consulting to companies in many industries and countries, and develops & delivers training courses for Washington University's Center for Applied Information Technology.
Brian has a passion for building software that is easy to use and robust while still meeting the rapid development requirements in today's industry. He has expertise in distributed systems, object oriented analysis and design, secure computing, and many languages and frameworks.
Presentations
RESTful Web Services with JAX-RS
Until recently, REST as an architectural style has suffered from a lack of understanding and serious lack of frameworks. Now that APIs and frameworks like JAX-RS and Jersey are here, why should you take the time to learn how to build RESTful services?
Open Source Java Performance Tuning
Performance tuning/troubleshooting is the poor stepchild of software development. There are many reasons for this, and often it boils down to justifying the purchase of tools and the time to learn them. As a result, when problems occur we often end up struggling to find ways to get results in short timeframes and with much more attention on our activities than is good for finding and fixing problems. What if you could skip the PO process and still performance tune?