Venkat Subramaniam
ÜberConf
Denver · July 18 - 21, 2017
Founder @ Agile Developer, Inc.
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.
He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.
Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com. You can reach him by email at venkats@agiledeveloper.com or on twitter at @venkat_s.
Presentations
Functional Programming with Java8
With Java supporting lambda expressions, we have nothing to stop us from creating functional style of code for our day to day applications. We are so used to object-oriented programming, but remember the paradigm shift we went through to adapt to that way of programming. It is yet another paradigm shift and most of us wonder how in the world can we write functional style code. Much like how OO was not as much about the syntax as it was about the design, functional programming is about the design, the idioms, and the data structures we would use to program.
Programming with JavaScript - Method to Madness
JavaScript is a powerful language with many capabilities. Yet, this is one of the most misused, feared, and often poorly utilized languages. In this hands-on workshop, we will demystify JavaScript. We will start with some of the fundamental dos and don'ts of this language, explore its dynamic capabilities, and learn to make use of its powerful prototypal inheritance.
Programming with JavaScript - Method to Madness
JavaScript is a powerful language with many capabilities. Yet, this is one of the most misused, feared, and often poorly utilized languages. In this hands-on workshop, we will demystify JavaScript. We will start with some of the fundamental dos and don'ts of this language, explore its dynamic capabilities, and learn to make use of its powerful prototypal inheritance.
Automated Testing JavaScript
JavaScript is one of the most powerful and yet perilous languages. It is arguably the most ubiquitous language, the king of the client side programming the web. The dynamic nature of the language offers many benefits, but the weak typing and lack of tooling can make changes unpredictable, that is, if we're not careful. Automated testing can greatly alleviate the pains and lead to more fruitful development.
Exploring Java 9 Modularization
If Java 8 was all about how we code, Java 9 is all about how we will build. Modularization will have the biggest impact of any change that happened in Java since its inception. In this presentation we will learn about the need for modularization, how it impacts development, the rules to follow when creating modules, and the effect it has on legacy code.
JShell: The REPL for Java
JShell, introduced in Java 9, is a great experimentation tool, useful for micro-prototyping, and trying out code snippets. In this presentation we will learn the benefits of the tool, when to use it, and how to put that to real good use during development.
The Power and Perils of Parallel Streams
Turning a stream into a parallel stream is extremely easy, but is that the prudent thing to do? While flipping that switch is almost effortless there are some significant ramifications. In this presentation we will learn the power of parallel streams but also why, when, and where it makes sense to use parallel streams. Through a series of example we will learn about cases where it makes sense and some there it does not.
Developing Angular2 Apps
Angular 2 is a total rewrite when compared to Angular 1.x. If you are new to Angular 2 and interested in learning to develop applications using ES6 (JavaScript), then this presentation is for you.
Functional Programming with Java 8
Java 8 is the most significant change to the language since it's introduction, surpassing changes seen in any of the previous versions. It is not merely syntactical change or addition of a few extra features, it's a paradigm shift. Come to this presentation to learn about the power and capabilities of functional programming using Java 8 and how to benefit from those when building Java applications.
Angular 2 Beyond the Introduction
In this presentation, we continue beyond the introduction to Angular 2 and look into working with directives and routes.
Building Reactive Applications
Reactive Programming is receiving quite a bit of attention and for good reasons. It’s a nice logic next step from functional programming. It takes the concept of function composition and lazy evaluations to the next level. It streamlines handling of many critical issues that are architectural in nature: resilience, scale, responsiveness, and messaging.
Reactive Programming in Java
Reactive Programming in gaining a lot of excitement. Many libraries, tools, and frameworks are beginning to make use of reactive libraries. Besides, applications dealing with big data or high frequency data can benefit from this programming paradigm. Come to this presentation to learn about what reactive programming is, what kind of problems it solves, how it solves them. We will take an example oriented approach to learning the programming model and the abstraction.
Building Reactive Applications
Reactive Programming is receiving quite a bit of attention and for good reasons. It’s a nice logic next step from functional programming. It takes the concept of function composition and lazy evaluations to the next level. It streamlines handling of many critical issues that are architectural in nature: resilience, scale, responsiveness, and messaging.
Programming with Vert.x
Reactive Programming is at the top of new excitements in our field. There is a lot of discussion and theory around this concept, but what does it feel to create applications using these ideas? That's the focus on this talk, and we'll use Vert.x as a vehicle.
Twelve Ways to Make Code Suck Less
We all have seen our share of bad code and some really good code as well. What are some of the common anti patterns that seem to be recurring over and over in code that sucks? By learning about these code smells and avoiding them, we can greatly help make our code better.
Putting a Spark in your Applications
Distributed and parallel computing have been around for a while. The problem is not new, but solutions have generally been complex. Over the years several solutions have come along to ease the pain. Spark is a wonderful programming API and a tool that can ease the pain of creating distributed, high concurrent, performing code.