Groovy from the Trenches

Groovy has been successfully leveraged at various companies around the world in order to build enterprise applications on the Java platform quickly. In particular, Groovy has proved its value at a large financial services client on more than one occasion to build mission critical applications in short order– all while leveraging their existing investment in the Java platform from developer tools all they way to data center management.

From exposing legacy data models via RESTful web services to mission critical reporting applications built with GroovySQL and Spring to Groovy's core language features and much much more, I'll show you tips and tricks that separate Groovy from the pack and expose how one can quickly build real world applications that meet a business's needs quickly with fewer lines of code.

About Andrew Glover

Andrew is the Engineering Manager for Netflix's Delivery Engineering Team. He and his team are building the next generation Continuous Delivery platform that is facilitating Netflix's rapid global expansion. Before joining Netflix, he served as the CTO of App47, where he lead the development of a SaaS Mobile Application Management platform. Andrew is also the co-author of Addison Wesley's “Continuous Integration” and he actively blogs about software at thediscoblog.com.

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