Christopher Judd
ÜberConf
Denver · July 21 - 24, 2015

CTO of Manifest Solutions
Christopher Judd is CTO and partner at Manifest Solutions (http://www.manifestcorp.com), an international speaker, Java Champion, an open source evangelist, and the Central Ohio Java Users Group (http://www.cojug.org) leader. He is an accomplished writer having co-authored Beginning Groovy and Grails (Apress, 2008), Enterprise Java Development on a Budget (Apress, 2003) and Pro Eclipse JST (Apress, 2005) as well as the author of the children’s book “Bearable Moments”. Based in Columbus Ohio, he has spent over 20 years architecting and developing software for organizations ranging from Fortune 50 companies to start-ups across various industries including insurance, health care, education, retail, government, manufacturing, service, and transportation. Mr. Judd spends most of his time consulting while continuing to focus on mentoring and training in Java, mobile and related technologies.
Presentations
Hacking & Hardening Java Web Applications Workshop
It seems like everyday there is a new headline about a security breach in a major company’s web application. These breaches cause companies to lose their credibility, cost them large sums of money, and those accountable undoubtedly lose their jobs. Security requires you to be proactive. Keep your employer out of the headlines by learning some key security best practices.
Introduction to Hadoop Workshop
As an industry we are collecting more and more data. At some point we have to be able to make sense of the data. Unfortunately many of the tools we have historically used can not scale up to the terabytes and petabytes we have captured. Hadoop is one of those relatively new technologies that is taking the industry by storm since it has proven to scale by taking advantage of the MapReduce pattern and distributed computing.
Introduction to Hadoop Workshop
As an industry we are collecting more and more data. At some point we have to be able to make sense of the data. Unfortunately many of the tools we have historically used can not scale up to the terabytes and petabytes we have captured. Hadoop is one of those relatively new technologies that is taking the industry by storm since it has proven to scale by taking advantage of the MapReduce pattern and distributed computing.
The search is over: Solr
Searching is an integral part of many applications today and yet it can still be difficult to integrate search into an application well. Search becomes even more challenging when you consider searching across an enterprise or need to support a large scale.
The search is over: Solr
Searching is an integral part of many applications today and yet it can still be difficult to integrate search into an application well. Search becomes even more challenging when you consider searching across an enterprise or need to support a large scale.
Java in the (Amazon) Cloud Workshop
Wonder what all the Cloud Computing hype is about? Want to know how to deploy a standard Java web application to the cloud and get limitless scalability? Well, this hands on tutorial will answer all your questions and provide confidence by walking you through the process of deploying a sophisticated Java web application to the Amazon Web Service (AWS) Cloud.
Java in the (Amazon) Cloud Workshop
Wonder what all the Cloud Computing hype is about? Want to know how to deploy a standard Java web application to the cloud and get limitless scalability? Well, this hands on tutorial will answer all your questions and provide confidence by walking you through the process of deploying a sophisticated Java web application to the Amazon Web Service (AWS) Cloud.