Craig Walls
New England Software Symposium
Boston · Sep 30 - Oct 2, 2016
Author of 'Spring in Action' and 'Spring AI in Action'
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 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 Testing Rebooted
How do you test a Spring application? The easy answer is that Spring encourages loose-coupling through interfaces and dependency injection, therefore it's easy to inject mock implementations at test time.
But, as I said, that's the easy answer.
There's more to testing an application than simple unit-testing. And the most challenging parts of an application to test are the external edges such as the web and database portions. It's difficult to inject a mock user into a web application; and injecting a mock database doesn't give any confidence that persistence code will work with a real database.