Venkat Subramaniam
Lone Star Software Symposium: Dallas
Dallas · May 19 - 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
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.
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.
Angular 2 Beyond the Introduction
In this presentation, we continue beyond the introduction to Angular 2 and look into working with directives and routes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Principles for Building MicroServices
MicroServices, that's the new rage. Many companies want to split their monoliths into microservices. With every single technology, the adoption goes through cycles: we learn about it, do it wrong, learn from the mistakes (hopefully from others more than our own), and get better at using it. In this presentation we will learn about some dos and don'ts for microservices.
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.
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.
Angular vs. React: Which one to Choose?
Life is full of choices and the choices are full of tradeoffs. One such choice is which client side technology to use: React or Angular 2? This presentation will not decide that for you, but it will provide you with enough details so you can make that decision for your applications.