Walmart.com is a polyglot of Open Source technologies for mobile, java, java ee, node.js, absolutely huge data (big data is just too small), and many more. Ryan McGuinness, Principal Architect at WalmartLabs, discusses the challenges of DevOps at scale and building a sustainable, customer focused global platform.
This presentation shares the story of scaling Android Engineering at SoundCloud. We grew our team from two developers to 8 in little more than a year. This talk presents the processes and technologies that helped us as well as things we’re striving to get right.
How do you start building a new complex system if the requirements are still unclear? How do you select technologies to start with? How do you start delivering value as quickly as possible and concentrate on components, which matter most?
Developing cloud native Java applications presents several challenges. How do microservices discover each other? How do you configure them? How can you make them resilient to failure? How can you monitor the health of each microservice? Spring Cloud addresses all of these concerns. Even so, you still must explicitly develop …
Do you need more performance from your Java EE applications? Is latency causing you stress? If so, take a look at JCache, the Java caching API. This code-driven session demonstrates how to integrate JCache into your Java EE applications, using CDI. JCache (JSR 107), the new standard API for cache …
Java 8 was launched in March 2014 with great fanfare. The new lambda syntax allows us to have a more succinct coding style and get rid of a lot of boilerplate code. However, there is also confusion. Even the “State of the Lambdas” paper starts by comparing lambdas to ActionListener.
