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Ending keynote at Voxxed Days CERN 2024. It's so refreshing to see a group being agile in the world where so many talk about doing agile. The announcement of the six months release cycle was met with skepticism. But, Java has delivered consistently since that announcement. Let's dig in and learn how we can benefit from the amazing recent changes.
Really? You may wonder. This is 2024 and do we all not know Java already really well. Most of us do and yet there are so many things we tend to not realize until those things bite us in the back. This is not an introductory session on Java but one in which we will take existing code, discuss its behavior, look into surprises it holds. These are scenarios that either the speaker has stubbed his toes on or things he has been other developers stub their toes, from practical every day realistic code. We will take a number of working examples, ask you to identify the behavior, then run the code to see what it really does, and discuss the underlying concepts or the lessons we need to carry forward to avoid falling into traps or developing code that may cause issues in the future.
Note: the audio and video has some quality issues due to technical problems. Code reviews are essential to improve the quality of code and to reduce defects. Yet, everyone, from the developers to managers, dread that activity. However, when done right it can be one of the most effective ways to not only improve the quality of the application but also promote learning among the team members. In this presentation we will discuss the issues with conventional code reviews and look at ways to turn this into a effective practice that team will relish.
Opening keynote We constantly hear that change should be affordable and cost effective. True, but, in reality, that is easily said than done. Complexity makes change hard. We can't shy away from the hard problems posed by domains and business needs. So, how can we solve complicated problems without getting dragged into the quagmire of what appears to be an inevitable complexity? In this keynote, an award winning author and software practitioner will share experiences and observations from working on multiple software projects, about what leads to complexities, the traps developers and organizations fall into, and what we can do to effectively deal with these common, recurring issues we see across domains and products.
Java has had parallel and concurrent programming facilities from the start. In the recent years the business has needed as much, if not more, asynchronous capabilities, with webservices and microservices. In this session we will discuss the various options available, such as completable futures, reactive steams, and the newer virtual threads and discuss which options are better suited and why. VENKAT SUBRAMANIAM Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., 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 https://www.agiledeveloper.com. You can reach him by email at venkats@agiledeveloper.com or on twitter at @venkat_s.
For more info on the next Devoxx UK event 👉 www.devoxx.co.uk Whether you are a programmer, a lead, an architect, a technical manager, or just a nice simple human being your day starts and ends with making decisions. It involves making many small decisions and may involve making some big ones too. In this keynote we will talk about the art of decision making, the consequences of the choices we make, and tie that into the everyday architecture and design of enterprise systems.
For more info on the next Devoxx UK event 👉 www.devoxx.co.uk Functional and reactive programming is gaining popularity and use. One hurdle developers face using these approaches is in exception handling. Dealing with exceptions in these styles is confusing in the beginning and is often messy and error prone. In this presentation we will step back and take a closer look at exception handling, about their role in functional and reactive programming, and discuss the dos and don'ts for exception handling. We will learn using concrete examples and live coding to illustrate the problem and the possible solutions.
For more info on the next Devoxx UK event 👉 www.devoxx.co.uk Design Patterns are common ways to solve problems that developers have discovered over time. They often fill the gaps between the language capabilities and the design goals. When languages mature, sometimes patterns become natural features of languages and blend in to the natural way of writing code instead of a special effort. Java has evolved significantly over the years. In this session we will revisit some common design problems and see how patterns are realized to solve those problems with the modern capabilities in Java.
It's so refreshing to see a group being agile in the world where so many talk about doing agile. The announcement of the six months release cycle was met with skepticism. But, Java has delivered consistently since that announcement. Let's dig in and learn how we can benefit from the amazing recent changes. VENKAT SUBRAMANIAM Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., and an instructional professor at the University of Houston. He has mentored tens of 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 agile practices on their software projects. Venkat is a (co)author of multiple books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. His latest book is Programming Kotlin: Create Elegant, Expressive, and Performant JVM and Android Applications. Venkat is a well-recognized person in the software communities. He was once a recipient of the MicroSoft MVP award. He has received JavaOne RockStar award three years in a row and was inducted into the Java Champions program in 2013 for his efforts in motivating and inspiring software developers around the world. Venkat has been in the training, consulting, and mentoring business since 1996. He is recognized for his pragmatic approach, dislike for accidental complexity, continuous effort to seek minimalistic design, and simpler solutions. ------------------------------------------------------------ INTRO * visuals & editing by @Mercator * music : Avocado by Ephixa
Design Patterns are common ways to solve problems that developers have discovered over time. They often fill the gaps between the language capabilities and the design goals. When languages mature, sometimes patterns become natural features of languages and blend in to the natural way of writing code instead of a special effort. Java has evolved significantly over the years. In this session we'll revisit some common design problems and see how patterns are realized to solve those problems with the modern capabilities in Java. VENKAT SUBRAMANIAM Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., and an instructional professor at the University of Houston. He has mentored tens of 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 agile practices on their software projects. Venkat is a (co)author of multiple books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. His latest book is Programming Kotlin: Create Elegant, Expressive, and Performant JVM and Android Applications. Venkat is a well-recognized person in the software communities. He was once a recipient of the MicroSoft MVP award. He has received JavaOne RockStar award three years in a row and was inducted into the Java Champions program in 2013 for his efforts in motivating and inspiring software developers around the world. Venkat has been in the training, consulting, and mentoring business since 1996. He is recognized for his pragmatic approach, dislike for accidental complexity, continuous effort to seek minimalistic design, and simpler solutions. ------------------------------------------------------------ INTRO * visuals & editing by @Mercator * music : Avocado by Ephixa