Understand Java from a functional programming point of view. This part covers the basics of lambdas and streams, emphasizing functional programming by transforming collections using the stream approach.

Also includes method references and static and default methods in interfaces.

Functional features in Java, including parallel streams, the java.util.function package, the Optional data type, and reduction operations.

The talk also covers the new date and time package based on Joda time, as well as collectors and implementing the Collector interface.

Java SE 8 introduces many new features that can simplify your code. Using streams, lambdas, and the new Optional type all change the way we write Java. In this presentation, we'll work through a series of examples that show how to rewrite existing code from Java 7 or earlier using the new Java 8 approach.

Examples will include replacing anonymous inner classes with lambdas, switching from iterating over collections into transforming streams, using immutables wherever possible, lazy evaluation, and more.

Groovy is unusual among programming languages in that it doesn't seek to replace its predecessor. You can freely mix Groovy with Java on a class-by-class, or even line-by-line, basis. If you are working with Java, there's no reason not to make your life easier by adding Groovy where it helps the most.

Groovy helps Java in many ways, especially when processing XML or JSON data, replacing anonymous inner classes, adding tons of library methods that Java has needed all along, vastly simplified file and database manipulation, and much more. This talk will demonstrate how you can add Groovy to Java applications and simplify your development job immediately.

This is a revised and updated version of the previous talk, with current thinking from practice and the literature. The talk presents why conflicts with your manager are inevitable based on differences in priorities and perspectives, and how to plan for them. The goal is to show you how to build the loyalty relationship that allows you to get what you need when you need it.

Topics covered will include diagnosing communication styles, lessons from game theory, working within the organizational hierarchy, and lessons on how to build a relationship with your manager that still allows you the freedom to express yourself and what you really want.

Many of us would love to embrace microservices in our day-to-day work. But most of us don’t have the opportunity to start over with a pure greenfield effort. We have to understand how to refactor our existing monolithic applications toward microservices. Practical steps include building new features as microservices, leveraging anti-corruption layers, strangling the monolith.

In this presentation we’ll go light on the theory and walk through the actual process of turning a strawman monolith into a family of well-factored microservices.

While rummaging through some books the other day, I came across my copy of The Pragmatic Programmer. Flipping to the copyright page, I realized that it had been 16 years since its publication. Many of our careers have been deeply affected by reading and considering the many nuggets of wisdom contained in this book, and it is near the top of multiple recommended reading lists.

In this presentation, we’ll revisit this book, and we’ll also consider what we’ve learned since its publication - what would we change? And what remains timeless?

As we build distributed systems composed of microservices, we introduce new potential performance problems and failure points. As the number of nodes in our system increases, these problems rapidly amplify. In order to keep our composite systems responsive, we can apply the techniques of reactive programming. In order to keep our composite systems healthy, we can apply fault tolerance patterns like circuit breakers and bulkheads.

In this presentation we’ll examine how to leverage two popular libraries from Netflix, Hystrix and RxJava, to create reactive and fault tolerant systems.

Over the past year I’ve had the pleasure of wearing the hat of “product manager” for the Spring Cloud Services team at Pivotal, operating using a distributed variant of the Pivotal Labs process. Along the way I’ve learned many valuable lessons that I hope you’ll be able to apply to your product development efforts.

In this presentation we’ll examine the relationship of product management to engineering and to your customer, and how you can be an effective broker between the two groups.

In this session, we will take a look at Angular - the powerful MVVM SPA framework from Google. We will discuss some of the terminology that Angular offers, and see how we can use that to develop highly interactive, dynamic web applications. See “Detail” for a list of topics I cover and the Github repo URL

In this session we will take a look at Angular and using it to develop rich web applications. Angular embraces HTML and CSS, allowing you to extend HTML towards your application, and uses plain JavaScript which makes your code easy to reuse, and test.

Note: This is an intro level talk. It is targeted towards developers who are curious about Angular and want to learn about the fundamental features and concepts in Angular.

Topics Covered -

Bootstrapping an AngularJS application using ng-app
ng-init and the evaluation {{ }} directive
A brief look at $rootScope and scoping rules
ng-model
Controllers, Dependency Injection, and the View-Model
Looping using ng-repeat
Forms using ng-form, form validation and submission in AngularJS
ng-messages to display form validation messages to the user
Angular provided filters and custom filters

GitHub URL - https://github.com/looselytyped/angudone-workshop/tree/solutions

In this session, we will take a look at Angular - the powerful MVVM SPA framework from Google. We will discuss some of the terminology that Angular offers, and see how we can use that to develop highly interactive, dynamic web applications. See “Detail” for a list of topics I cover and the Github repo URL

In this session we continue our discussion from Part I. As we continue to evolve our application we will seek to use, and understand a few more of AngularJS' core constructs.

Factories and services
Routing using ng-view and $routeProvider
AJAX calls to a backend using $http

If time permits we will look at a few good practices when developing AngularJS applications, ways to modularize your code, and some tools that aid in the development of AngularJS applications.

By the end of this conference you will have learned many new tools and technologies. The easy part is done, now for the hard part: getting the rest of the teamand managementon board with the new ideas. Easier said than done.

Whether you want to effect culture change in your organization, lead the transition toward a new technology, or are simply asking for better tools; you must first understand that having a “good idea” is just the beginning. How can you dramatically increase your odds of success?

You will learn 12 concrete strategies to build consensus within your team as well as 6 technique to dramatically increase the odds that the other person will say “Yes” to your requests.

As a professional mentalist, Michael has been a student of psychology, human behavior and the principles of influence for nearly two decades. There are universal principles of influence that neccessary to both understand and leverage if you want to be more effective leader of change in your organization.

In this session we discuss strategies for getting your team on board as well as when/how to approach management within the department and also higherup in the organization.

It happens to us all; there are simply days where it seems impossible to get anything done. This session focuses on techniques and tips to get into the zone, stay in the zone and to protect your productivity, even in disruptive environments.

Rather than focusing on any one productivity methodology (e.g. GTD) This talk analyzes the internal and external factors that affect our productivity and offers broader strategies to get back on track.

You've heard the old adage “It's not what you know it's who you know.” The focus of this session is divided between ways to better connect with everyone you meet as well as ways to grow your network, help and influence people and ultimately build long-term relationships and build your reputation.

Networking isn't about selling nor it isn't about “taking.” Done properly it benefits everyone. Among the benefits are strengthening relationships; getting new perspectives and ideas; building a reputation of being knowledgable, reliable and supportive; having access to opportunities and more!

Slides available online: https://prezi.com/ck1fdbhgqwiq/?token=8f8240f753ad9ae2c50ce696657020f40a877a40fa224790652eb412ac5eb8d3

In this session, we'll see how to build real Spring applications using Spring Boot. We'll also look under the covers to see what makes Spring Boot tick.

Spring offers a number of configuration options: XML configuration, Java configuration, and Groovy configuration to name a few. To some degree, component-scanning and autowiring help eliminate some explicit configuration. But in general most Spring applications require some essential “bootstrap” configuration to enable key functionality. What's the right way to build Spring applications when there are so many choices?

What if I told you that configuration was optional?

Spring Boot is an exciting new programming model for Spring that makes it extremely easy to create stand-alone, production-ready Spring applications. Rather than writing lots of code to satisfy the needs of a framework, Spring Boot helps you focus your coding efforts on your application. Spring Boot takes an opinionated approach to configuring Spring, making it possible to create Spring applications with little or, in some cases, no Spring configuration at all!

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 Boot does many wonderful things that get you well on your way to developing amazing Spring applications. But how does it tick? How can you customize it? And how can you override it's default autoconfiguration when you want something a little different?

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.

You wouldn't write your entire application in a single main() method or servlet. Nor would you develop an entire production-ready application in a single class. It's even unlikely that you'd cram everything into a single package.

Modularity helps us gain order in our code, breaking it into easily digestible, refactorable, pluggable, and testable chunks. Classes and methods are a form of modularity that we're all familiar with. But once the code is built, modularity goes away and we're left deploying a single WAR file.

Aside from being buzzword-compliant, Microservices are a means of defining entire systems from composable, but distinct deployment units gaining all of the benefits of finer-grained modularity.

Microservices present new challenges to developers, however. How do you configure your microservices? How are microservices discovered? And how can you avoid a cascading failure when one microservice becomes sluggish, unresponsive, or otherwise unhealthy?

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.

Microservices are commonly thought of as small REST-based services that are assembled to form a larger, more complete application. In reality, however, REST is only the communication mechanism which is only a implementation detail and not intrinsic to the notion of microservices.

Meanwhile, data processing and integration between various components of an application and external services is a key factor of many applications. In cloud native applications, this kind of data flow and processing is still relevant. Spring Cloud Data Flow offers a solution for data processing and integration where each step in the flow is, in fact, a microservice…but not necessarily a REST service.

How do we define identity in a distributed software system? How do we manage it securely? How do we make identity assertions and verify those claims?

Technologies don't magically become solutions. They are used within domain, design and deployment contexts. This talk will focus on the singular notion of Identity and how it cross-cuts the distributed systems we are building.

We will focus on a variety of technologies and standards that help us make, identify, claim and verify identities.

Authenticated Identities are the first step to establish Privilege. Most systems fail to have sufficiently, deeply entrenched notion of how to apply and minimize privilege to avoid data and systems from being abused.

Technologies don't magically become solutions. They are used within domain, design and deployment contexts. This talk will focus on the singular notion of Privilege and how it cross-cuts the distributed systems we are building.

This talk will focus on the Valet Key problem and how to avoid it. We will visit various standards and technologies that help us strengthen our security profiles by reducing our dependence on open-ended and unfettered access to our systems and data.

Data integration costs are well beyond what they should be for such a crucial business function. The good news is that they needn't be. By relying on integration-friendly standards and technologies that were designed to support sharing information, we can reduce these costs while increasing our business capabilities.

Technologies don't magically become solutions. They are used within domain, design and deployment contexts. This talk will focus on the singular notion of Integration and how it cross-cuts the distributed systems we are building.

We will look at how the REST Architectural style leads us to integration-friendly standards such as RDF, Linked Data, SPARQL and JSON-LD. These technologies are useful both within our firewalls and with third party partners.

Our biological world changes gracefully. Our information world changes much less so. How can we embrace the inevitable technological, procedural and schematic flux that we know is going to visit upon us at some point?

Technologies don't magically become solutions. They are used within domain, design and deployment contexts. This talk will focus on the singular notion of Evolution and how it cross-cuts the distributed systems we are building.

We will focus on strategies from the Web standards space to define information systems that embrace change and handle it with relative ease.

This will include strategies for dealing with changing technologies, changing schemas and more.

Information conveys value as it travels around our systems, resting for a time in our data stores. The value we get out of it is sometimes matched by the value others would get from it as well. We need mechanisms to protect sensitive information from prying eyes and control with whom we share it.

Technologies don't magically become solutions. They are used within domain, design and deployment contexts. This talk will focus on the singular notion of Secrecy and how it cross-cuts the distributed systems we are building.

This talk will focus on strategies from the world of encryption to keep secrets secret as we produce, store and transfer information in distributed systems. A successful strategy for doing so will rely on notions of Identity and a strong Privilege model, but we will mostly focus on specific building blocks upon which we maintain Privacy and Confidentiality.

We will also address the forces that undermine our ability to trust encryption such as bugs, design flaws and those who wish to actively undermine our need to maintain Secrecy.

When you hear the term “Internet of Things (IoT)” what do you think of? From a customer perspective it is a bunch of cool gadgets. From the datacenter perspective IoT == the onslaught of data and previously unprecedented scale.

This presentation is provide a walk through of the technologies necessary to dynamically create in data pipelines and process them for near real-time access to analytics.

This presentation will provide an overview of the Lambda architecture along with a brief walk through of each of the components of a common IoT datacenter infrastructure. Topics to include:

AKKA
Kakfa
HDFS
Spark
Cassandra
Mesos / DCOS

Brief mentions of Hive, Storm and InfluxDB included.

A look into Java memory including Metaspace and garbage collectors including G1.

This session will look at the Java monitoring and management capabilities, which includes the ability to make VM argument changes on the fly. This session will dive into the different memory compartments including details on Metaspace and how they are used by the JVM. Finally this session will explore the different GC options and how they affect response times and throughput.

Containers and Micro-service are like peanut butter and jelly, they just go together. However do you know how resources are managed in a container and how that affects your application. This session will dive into how Java is affected living under control groups.

This session will review containers, the underlying technology to containers along with different container runtimes such as Docker. We will look at the anatomy of a container including control groups (cgroups) and namespaces. This session will conclude with the challenges of running the JRE in a container and the impact that has on the efficiency of the process at scale.

TBA

Good architects are, almost by definition, good story tellers. And while good communication skills are vital to success as an architect, so too is an ability to constructively critique an architecture. In this talk, we'll explore why reviews are important and what it takes to perform them well. Additionally, we'll talk about the importance of planning and preparation in conducting a successful review.

In some organizations, architects are dismissed as people that draw box and arrow diagrams - the dreaded whiteboard architect. While we don't want to foster that stereotype, it is important for an architect to be able to construct basic architectural diagrams. An architect must also be able to separate the wheat from the chaff eliminating those models that don't help tell the story while fully leveraging those that do.

In this workshop, we'll discuss the various diagrams at our disposal. We'll walk through a case study and as we go, we'll construct a set of diagrams that will help us effectively communicate our design. We'll talk about stakeholders and who might benefit from each typ of diagram. Additionally we'll discuss how to constructively review an architectural model.

Workshop Requirements

Neither a laptop nor special software is required for this workshop though your modeling tool of choice (Spark, Visio, OmniGraffle, etc.) is welcome for the exercises. Of course paper and pencil are very effective too and frankly recommended! Feel free to work in pairs or teams. That's it! Well, and a willingness to participate!

In some organizations, architects are dismissed as people that draw box and arrow diagrams - the dreaded whiteboard architect. While we don't want to foster that stereotype, it is important for an architect to be able to construct basic architectural diagrams. An architect must also be able to separate the wheat from the chaff eliminating those models that don't help tell the story while fully leveraging those that do.

In this workshop, we'll discuss the various diagrams at our disposal. We'll walk through a case study and as we go, we'll construct a set of diagrams that will help us effectively communicate our design. We'll talk about stakeholders and who might benefit from each typ of diagram. Additionally we'll discuss how to constructively review an architectural model.

Workshop Requirements

Neither a laptop nor special software is required for this workshop though your modeling tool of choice (Spark, Visio, OmniGraffle, etc.) is welcome for the exercises. Of course paper and pencil are very effective too and frankly recommended! Feel free to work in pairs or teams. That's it! Well, and a willingness to participate!

Starting with JDK 5, we have had Futures, and they mostly went ignored. Now with concurrency and reactive technology in demand, it is essential that we understand what futures are, and how to handle them and make use of their power in asynchronous systems.

This presentation is a basic ground up introduction to Futures. We start with Futures and how they came packaged with JDK 5. We take a look at Executors, how to create a thread pool, which pool you should choose. How to model Futures in the JDK and show the difference for awaiting the answer and taking on the answer asynchronously. We also take a look at what a Promise is and when to use one. We then invest time taking a look at Guava's callback solution. Then we finally look at the handling of futures in both Scala and Clojure.

Reactive is a the latest buzzword to consume our industry. This presentation distills and defines reactive systems, describe the difference between reactive architecture vs. reactive programming, describe common patterns, and demos the popular reactive JVM technologies like RXJava, and Akka.

Introduction to reactive gets in deep on a discussion of patterns: Source, Sink, Back Pressure, Reactive Pull/Push including a Light introduction to actors using Akka, ReactiveX using RXJava and Reactive Streams in RXJava and Akka. We also will showcase the differences between ReactiveX and Akka.

ReactiveX is a set of Reactive Extensions developed by Netflix, and is developed for various programming languages, like Java, Scala, and Clojure. ReactiveX overhauls the observable design pattern to achieve reactive goals. This presentation will solely focus on the Java version of ReactiveX, RXJava.

RXJava is combining the Observer Pattern with Functional Programming to compose complex asynchronous reactive systems. This presentation will also give an overview on RXJava concepts like Source, Sink, BackPressure and Reactive Pull and Push.

Didn't you hear the news? TDD is dead. Yet many developers rely on it for quality code. Come join the zombie apocalypse and learn and understand TDD, what sets it apart from unit testing after the fact, what to do when you need to update code, effective mocking, automatically generating test data and lots of it, leaving code alone and respecting your work, and more

This presentation will cover:

What is TDD?
Benefits of TDD
How to TDD
Mocking
The Great TDD Debate
Opinions of TDD from Industry Leaders
JVM Testing Tools
JVM Testing Languages
Testing Static Calls
Updating Code

Take control of your knowledge portfolio and be in demand! Your command of the top JVM languages; Java 8, Groovy, Scala, JRuby, and Clojure; will set you apart from the rest. This presentation will introduce each of these languages, highlight common ground, and show some stark differences.

This presentation will cover:

How to install each of the JVM languages
Describe the “functionality” of each of the languages
Expressiveness vs. Terseness of each language
How each language handles mutability
How each language handles concurrency
Amazing tricks of each language
Comparison of language typing
Comparison and contrast of language performance
Each language's killer app
Analysis of the language culture and where to get help?
Tips on how to start learning and keep learning with a busy schedule

Almost every example of an agile project involves a single team and while many successful projects are delivered that way, most enterprise software requires the interaction of several teams. But how do we scale agile beyond a single team? What practices translate and which ones don't? In this talk we'll discuss some of the issues you'll encounter as you move agile beyond a single group and how you can keep multiple stakeholders happy. While it isn't as simple as having a “scrum of scrums” it isn't as hard as replacing every line of COBOL.

Technology changes, it's a fact of life. And while many developers are attracted to the challenge of change, many organizations do a particularly poor job of adapting. We've all worked on projects with, ahem, less than new technologies even though newer approaches would better serve the business. But how do we convince those holding the purse strings to pony up the cash when things are “working” today? At a personal, how do we keep up with the change in our industry?

This talk will explore ways to stay sharp as a software professional. We'll talk about how a technology radar can help you stay marketable (and enjoying your career) and how we can use the same technique to help our companies keep abreast of important changes in the technology landscape. Of course it isn't enough to just be aware, we have to drive change - but how? This talk will consider ways we can influence others and lead change in our organizations.

If you have ever studied a martial art, chances are you are familiar with katas: the practice of individual training exercises. Repeatedly. It may seem pointless to practice the same move again and again, the only way to improve is repetition. We can apply the same concept to learning programming languages.

Working individually or in small groups, attendees will work through a set of problems using JavaScript to solve them. Whether you are new to JavaScript or an old hand, this session will give you an opportunity to hone your craft! Bring a laptop or be prepared to make a friend.

On the NFJS tour, there are questions that seem to come up again and again. One common example is “How do we determine which new tools and technologies we should focus our energy on learning?” another is “How do we stop management from forcing us to cut corners on every release so we can create better and more maintainable code?” which, after awhile becomes “How can we best convince management we need to rewrite the business application?”

There is a single metaanswer to all these questions and many others.

It begins with the understanding that what we as engineers value, and what the business values are often very different (even if the ultimate goals are the same) By being able to understand these different perspectives it's possible to begin to frame our arguments around the needs and the wants of the business. This alone will make any engineer significantly more effective.

This session picks up from where “Stop writing code and start solving problems” stops discussing what is value, how do we align the values of the business with the needs and values of the engineer.

Being a professional software engineer, it's easy to fall into the belief that one's role in a company is to write code.
Another perspective might be that one's role is to solve problems for the business and that writing code is merely one of several tools available to help solve those problems.

There are numerous problem-solving “anti-patterns” that are rampant in the industry today. “Forewarned is forearmed” as they say. In addition to highlighting these “anti-patterns” with real-life examples and the (sometimes) disastrous consequences, Michael asks some of the difficult questions about our true motivations for our decisions and how our decisions can either positively or negatively affect our team and our organization.

We all have an innate sense of what's possible. Not only is this how magicians fool you, but it might also be what's holding you back.

In this session Michael Carducci shares how he applied lessons learned in his career as a professional magician to his “day-job” as a software engineer.

Magicians have a simple process for creating new material; think of the most impossible thing you can imagine, the engineer a way to make it possible. Michael has been engineering solutions to “impossible” problems for nearly 20 years and this has given him a unique perspective on dealing with challenges in all aspects of his life.

This talk combines illusion, anecdotes and real-world examples to help identify and overcome your mental obstacles.

In this session we will look at some JavaScript patterns, and how you can use them within your code.

No longer can you think of JavaScript as a kiddie-scripting language. JavaScript has now been promoted to a first-class citizen within your application - and with this, comes the need to think of better abstractions, code re-use - even thinking of establishing a common vocabulary to discuss approaches to writing better, cleaner and ultimately more maintainable JavaScript code.

Asynchronous AJAX calls, especially those that deal with REST principles are something that all client side frameworks support, and AngularJS is no different. However, in order to truly benefit from AngularJS's support for asynchronous calls, one must understand the various moving parts that make this a reality. This includes promises (with AngularJS' $q library), $http and $resource.

In this session we will explore all the three components that make async calls in AngularJS possible. We will start with understanding the “why” of promises, and how we are to consume and produce promises. We will then dive into some of the inner workings of $http and how it leverages promises under the covers. We will end with an overview of $resource, which combines $http and promises to make working with REST-ful resources a breeze.

making the move to architect

Unlock your latent photographic memory. In this session you'll learn failsafe techniques and systems that allow you to never forget names, appointments, or numbers. In the process you'll be more effective and imaginative at work; improve reading speed and comprehension, and shorten study times.

An improved memory will change your life, literally. In the session we will describe in detail several memory techniques that, with a little practice, will have you remembering virtually anything you want.

Ever wonder when Java will be out of class path hell? Java 9 is for application developers, library developers by enablement of a scalable platform, greater platform integrity, and improved performance. In this talk, we will explore Project Jigsaw, HTTP 2.0, Lightweight JSON API and many other features.

This talk is designed to catapult your productivity, enhance your emotional intelligence, and refine your problem-solving skills. This talk is not just a series of presentations; it's a transformative experience tailored for the ambitious software developer and architect seeking to leave a mark in the fast-paced world of technology.

Dive into the essence of developer and architect productivity, where we unravel the secrets to optimizing your workflow and leveraging your skills for maximum impact. Discover the “24 Hours Instant Happiness” principle, a proven strategy to inject a dose of joy into your daily routine, fostering a positive work environment and personal life.

“Maximizing Your Impact” takes you deeper into the realm of influence, equipping you with the tools to excel in your projects and inspire those around you. Through “Effective Communication” and the intriguing “Mirror Technique,” learn how to build rapport, foster collaboration, and lead with empathy, amplifying your charisma in all professional interactions.

As we delve into the core of success, “Emotional Intelligence is 85% of Success” highlights the paramount importance of self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills in achieving your goals. The “6 Phase Meditation Approach” and “Day Launcher” sessions are designed to refine your focus, creativity, and emotional stability, setting a solid foundation for a productive day ahead.

The inclusion of “Empathy Maps” and “IDEO Case Studies” offers a practical lens through which to view user-centric design and innovation. At the same time, the “SCAMPER Technique” provides a creative framework for problem-solving, ensuring you're equipped to tackle challenges with agility and inventiveness.

Elevate your productivity to new heights with “5 Choices for Super Productivity,” a comprehensive guide to prioritizing effectively, embracing extraordinary outcomes, and mastering your technology. Learn the art of “Managing Energy, Not Time,” a paradigm shift that promises to enhance your efficiency and job satisfaction.

As the talk culminates, “The Paradox of Choice” and the latest “Technology Trends to Focus On” prepare you to navigate the complexities of the modern tech landscape with confidence and curiosity.

This masterclass is more than just a talk; it's an invitation to transform how you work, lead, and innovate. Join us to unlock your full potential and reshape your future in software development and architecture. Whether you're looking to boost your productivity, enhance your emotional intelligence, or simply find more joy in your work, this talk is your gateway to a more fulfilling career and life.

Developers and Architects are designers, problem solvers, and innovative, creative artists. Software design is an art that requires both left and right brains to be active so you can understand what customers need. Next, we will explore habits and tools to plan, learn, research, organize, teach, develop, mentor, and architect.

Agenda
Enhancing Productivity and Personal Growth
– Developer and Architect Productivity
Strategies for improving daily workflow and efficiency in software development and architecture.

– 24 Hours Instant Happiness
Quick wins for boosting morale and happiness within the team and personal life.

– Maximizing Your Impact
Techniques to increase your influence and contributions in projects and teams.

– Effective Communication
Importance of clear communication and the Mirror Technique to improve understanding and rapport.

– Increasing Charisma
Tips for becoming more charismatic and influential in professional settings.
Building Emotional Intelligence and Mindfulness

– Emotional Intelligence is 85% of Success
Discussing the critical role of emotional intelligence in achieving professional success.

– 6-Phase Meditation Approach
Introducing a meditation technique to enhance focus, creativity, and emotional stability.

– Day Launcher
A strategy to start your day with intention and focus, setting the tone for productivity and success.

– Empathy Map
Utilizing empathy maps to better understand user needs and enhance team collaboration.

– IDEO Case Studies
Examining case studies from IDEO to illustrate successful applications of empathy in design.

– Understanding a Problem with SCAMPER Technique
Exploring the SCAMPER technique to creatively solve problems and innovate solutions.
Strategies for Super Productivity

– 5 Choices for Super Productivity
Detailed strategies for enhancing productivity by prioritizing important tasks, aiming for extraordinary outcomes, scheduling priorities (“big rocks”), mastering technology use, and maintaining energy levels.

– Managing Energy, Not Time
Shifting focus from time management to energy management to maximize productivity and well-being.

– Increasing Frequency to Do What You Want
Techniques to align daily actions with personal and professional goals more effectively.

– The Paradox of Choice
Understanding how reducing options can lead to increased satisfaction and productivity.

– Technology Trends to Focus On
Highlighting current technology trends that developers and architects should be aware of to stay ahead in their field.

We are all familiar with the 3rd Normal form. Does that scale? What are the best practices for designing resilient, multi-tenant, performant databases? In this talk, we will explore the database evaluation process, where we will make choices on technology stacks based on requirements and analyzing the CAP theorem. We will discover different Consistency, Availability, and Partition Tolerance techniques, investigate No-SQL databases, and help new cloud deployments using the 3rd Platform.

Big data has characteristics in the new Cloud domain, which requires storing various data for different use-cases. We will explore the Document data store, Key-value, Columnar NoSQL, and Graph NoSQL databases.
Next, we will look at how to do data modeling for NoSQL columnar databases to support highly available partition tolerant use-cases. We will discover different strategies to help multi-tenant requirements. In the end, we will look at how to choose the right database? We will also see the future of Databases compared to Consistency Models, Schema Models, Database Languages, and Database storage.

A few of the technologies we will explore are

Cassandra and SPARK
Amazon DynamoDB
MongoDB, HBase
REDIS, MemcacheDB,
RDF / SPARQL
Graph Databases, Neo4J

This talk is ideal for the following roles:

Architects
Technical Leads
Programers
Integration Architects
Solution Architects

Apache Cassandra is one of the best solutions for storing and retrieving data.
Kafka is a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system that is designed to be fast, scalable, and durable.
We will explore data analytics cluster computing framework with real-world examples. It is 100x faster than Hadoop!

Big Data applications nowadays require a more rapid speed of data processing and analysis. We will explore topology with examples for building Spark applications.

Apache Cassandra is one of the best solutions for storing and retrieving data.
Kafka is a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system that is designed to be fast, scalable, and durable.
We will explore data analytics cluster computing framework with real-world examples. It is 100x faster than Hadoop!

Big Data applications nowadays require a more rapid speed of data processing and analysis. We will explore topology with examples for building Spark applications.

In this talk, we will explore different cloud computing architecture design patterns blueprints and how you can take advantage of them. We will study cloud patterns for Private and Hybrid cloud deployments, Cloud Services, Common cloud management platforms, Security, Cloud governance, resiliency, Performance, and consumability.

In this talk, we will explore different cloud computing architecture design patterns blueprints and how you can take advantage of them. We will explore cloud patterns for Private and Hybrid cloud deployments, Cloud Services, Common cloud management platforms, Security, Cloud governance, resiliency, Performance, and consumability.
Few patterns we will explore are as follows:
Sharing, Scaling and Elasticity Patterns
Reliability, Resiliency and Recovery Patterns
Data Management and Storage Device Patterns
Cloud Service and Storage Security Patterns
Network Security, Identity & Access Management and Trust Assurance Patterns

Much is said about the decentralized governance of and local autonomy given to “two pizza teams” build microservices. But how do you organize teams to effectively collaborate to build the eventual composite system?

In this presentation we’ll examine how to apply the Tracer Bullet Development methodology described in Ship It! to effectively construct distributed systems composed of microservices.

It begins with a vision - an awe-inspiring idea that both excites and motivates you. Then the compromises begin… Budget, schedule, scope, work/life balance; you're forced to cut a corner here and there and the vision of perfection slips further and further away until the end result is fragile, fetid shell of your original idea. How can we deal with inevitable compromises while maintaining our integrity as engineers (and pride in our work)

Like many of his talks, Michael has a very unique perspective on this phenomenon. After nearly two decades of experience both as a software engineer and as a professional magician he leverages all his skills explores this topic in an entertaining and insightful manner. It turns out creating beautiful, perfect code is not very different from creating the perfect card trick.

A set various tools to write reactive, concurrent, fault-tolerant applications and services using immutable data, asynchronous message passing using local and remote actors, software transactional memory, and supervised systems. This entire presentation is done in Java.

Akka is a set of various tools to write reactive, concurrent, fault-tolerant applications and services using immutable data, asynchronous message passing using local and remote actors, software transactional memory, and supervised systems.

Akka is also part of the Typesafe stack, a stack that include the Play web framework, Spray, Slick, and the Scala programming language. This Akka presentation will cover Java style usage of Akka with actors, asynchronous message passing, supervision, and streams

At the end of the day, an architect's primary job is to communicate. Not only do we need to make sure our teams understand the design of the system well enough to implement it, we must be able to explain our decisions to an audience that isn't impressed with how many TLAs you can rattle off in one sentence. Successful architects need to seamlessly transition from in depth technical conversations to budget meetings to discussions with end users adjusting the message to fit the audience.

While oral communication is key, good architects also spend a good deal of time putting pixel to screen via email, IM and various architectural documents we're expected to create. We need to write clearly and concisely while also knowing when the best course of action is to pick up the phone or walk to someone's desk.

In this talk, we'll explore the various methods that we as architects use to communicate with our stakeholders. We'll talk about knowing our audience, being able to present as well as how to run a good meeting. We'll discuss various patterns (and antipatterns) of presenting along with some concrete advice on how to do it better. At the end of the day, our job is to tell effectively tell a story - this talk will look at ways to do that.

In some organizations, architects are dismissed as people that draw box and arrow diagrams - the dreaded whiteboard architect. While we don't want to foster that stereotype, it is important for an architect to be able to construct basic architectural diagrams. An architect must also be able to separate the wheat from the chaff eliminating those models that don't help tell the story while fully leveraging those that do.

In this workshop, we'll discuss the various diagrams at our disposal. We'll walk through a case study and as we go, we'll construct a set of diagrams that will help us effectively communicate our design. We'll talk about stakeholders and who might benefit from each type of diagram. Additionally we'll discuss how to constructively review an architectural model.

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Neither a laptop nor special software is required for this workshop though your modeling tool of choice (Spark, Visio, OmniGraffle, etc.) is welcome for the exercises. Of course paper and pencil are very effective too and frankly recommended! Feel free to work in pairs or teams. That's it! Well, and a willingness to participate!

Spock is a groovy based testing framework that leverages all the “best practices” of the last several years taking advantage of many of the development experience of the industry. So combine Junit, BDD, RSpec, Groovy and Vulcans… and you get Spock!

There are 3 tools I use on every Java project I control… this is one of them and with good reason.

This session assumes some understanding of testing and junit and builds on it. We will introduce and dig deep into Spock as a test specification and mocking tool. Topics include:

Unit testing
Data driven tests
Mocking and Stubbing
Partial Mocks
Spock Extensions

Research Triangle Software Symposium

August 19 - 20, 2016

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