Grails in the Real World

Grails has enabled your team to achieve productivity levels you never knew possible for web applications on the JVM. Now you’ve carefully crafted a piece of enterprise software to be deployed in a complex environment including a legacy database, monitoring and logging standards, and pushbutton deployment requirements. You’re moving faster than ever, but it still seems harder than the blog-in-15-minutes demo you saw at that user group a couple of months ago. For a framework that sometimes seems biased towards the greenfield installation, this can be a challenge.

In this session, we'll learn the right internal framework details, deployment patterns, and Grails plugins to make your Grails deployment a success for both greenfield and brownfield apps. We'll cover responsible database schema migration, management with JMX, common pain points, sensible approaches to Grails advocacy and training, secure remote deployments, and more. Come prepared to have your Grails toolbox loaded up.

About Tim Berglund

Tim serves as the VP of Developer Relations at IBM, where he and his team work to make certain parts of the IBM portfolio more accessible to developers. He is a regular speaker at conferences and a presence on YouTube explaining complex technology topics in an accessible way. He lives with his wife in Arvada, CO. He has three grown children, three step-children, and four grandchildren, with a fifth on the way.

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