Craig Walls
Gateway Software Symposium
St. Louis · April 15 - 16, 2016
Author of 'Spring in Action' and 'Building Talking Apps'
Craig Walls is a Principal Engineer, Java Champion, Alexa Champion, and the author of Spring AI in Action, Spring in Action, and Build Talking Apps. He's a zealous promoter of the Spring Framework, speaking frequently at local user groups and conferences and writing about Spring. When he's not slinging code, Craig is planning his next trip to Disney World or Disneyland and spending as much time as he can with his wife, two daughters, 1 bird and 2 dogs.
Presentations
Cloud Native Spring
In this session, we'll explore Spring Cloud, the extension to Spring which addresses many of the common challenges of developing cloud native applications. We'll focus primarily on Spring Cloud's support for centralized configuration, service discovery, and failover/monitoring.
Cloud Native Data Integration
In this session, we'll look at Spring Cloud Data Flow, a cloud native programming and operating model for composable data microservices on a structured platform.
Spring Security Rebooted
Security is an important aspect of any application. For many years, Spring Security has been the go-to framework for securing Spring-based application. But historically Spring Security has been cumbersome to work with, involving an enormous amount of XML configuration to shape an application's security scheme.
In recent versions of Spring Security, however, XML-based configuration has taken a backseat to a powerful Java-based configuration option. Spring Security's Java-based configuration offers a fluent API for defining the security constraints for an application which is easy to read and eliminates the need for klunky XML configuration. On top of Spring Security's own configuration improvements, Spring Boot autoconfiguration makes it incredibly easy to get started securing your application, minimizing even the amount of Java configuration required.
Spring Boot and Beyond
In this session, we'll open the hood on Spring Boot and see how it works. Using this knowledge, we'll look at ways to optimize Spring Boot, override autoconfiguration, and create custom extensions to Spring Boot's Actuator.
Spring Data Rebooted
In this session, we're going to combine the magic of Spring Boot and the magic of Spring Data to yield something even more powerful. You'll see how to quickly build an application's persistence layer, whether it stores data in a RDBMS, Mongo, Neo4j, or several other popular data stores. You'll also see how to create a functioning REST API with nothing more than an interface and a domain type.