Track Overview
Current and Future Java and JVM languages
The JVM is one of the most powerful platforms ever created. When it first came out, its simplicity drew developers into it, and as time passed the growing Java ecosystem kept us there. Today more than 25 years later, Java continues to be relevant and vibrant with a fast and predictable release cadence that brings new ideas.
The JVM still shines when meeting the challenges of software development, deployment, and execution.
From this track
Techniques for Maintainable Quarkus Applications
Wednesday May 19 / 09:10AM EDT
Over time, different people will work on a distributed system to maintain its current behavior and adapt the solution to new use cases; all these team members should work productively. Join this session to find out some techniques to calm those noisy loggers, avoid memory leaks, or have better...
Ana Maria Mihalceanu
Solutions Architect @IBM & Java Champion
Keeping Pace with Java
Wednesday May 19 / 10:10AM EDT
What are the important aspects of the new Java release schedule – especially if you maintain production systems in the long run? How does a pragmatic and sustainable update strategy look like?In this session, we try to answer these questions and try to give some practical advice on how to...
Marc Hoffmann
Managing Director at mtrail
Kotlin is *Way* More Than Just Android
Wednesday May 19 / 11:10AM EDT
For many, whenever Kotlin is mentioned, it's assumed that an Android conversation is coming. Many seem to assume that Kotlin is just an Android language. But that's simply not true. Kotlin is an amazing language with a rich ecosystem for writing server side applications...
Justin Lee
Java Champion and Principal Software Engineer @RedHat
Java & JVM Panel
Wednesday May 19 / 12:10PM EDT
The new release cadence of Java brings exciting new features at a more consistent pace, what are the next exciting features? What have been the strongest points of Java? What are we missing?
Simone Bordet
Lead Software Architect at Webtide LLC
Cay Horstmann
University Professor at PFH Private University of Applied Sciences
Speakers from this track
Ana Maria Mihalceanu
Solutions Architect @IBM & Java Champion
Ana is Java Champion, Application Architect, co-founder of Bucharest Software Craftsmanship Community, and a constant adopter of challenging technical scenarios involving Java-based frameworks and multiple cloud providers. She is an active supporter of technical communities’ growth through...
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Marc Hoffmann
Managing Director at mtrail
Java Champion Marc R. Hoffmann was involved in on various FOSS and commercial Java projects since the very beginning in 1996. In his spare time he created the free code coverage tool JaCoCo. This includes keeping up and testing with the latest Java releases.In his day job Marc R. Hoffmann is CTO...
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Justin Lee
Java Champion and Principal Software Engineer @RedHat
Justin Lee is a Java Champion and Kotlin fanatic. He has been programming in Java since 1996 and has worked on virtually every level of the application stack from database drivers all the way to application servers and front end interfaces. A long time advocate of Java and Kotlin, he has...
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Simone Bordet
Lead Software Architect at Webtide LLC
Simone Bordet is one of the Eclipse Jetty Project Leaders, theCometD project leader and a Java Champion.Simone works as Lead Architect at Webtide, the company that providessupport and services for Jetty and CometD.Active open source developer, he founded and contributed to variousopen source...
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Cay Horstmann
University Professor at PFH Private University of Applied Sciences
Cay grew up in Northern Germany but scholarships lured him to earn an M.S. in computer science from Syracuse University and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Michigan. He taught computer science at San Jose State University for almost thirty years and held visiting appointments at...
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Track Host
Ix-chel Ruiz
DA, Senior Software Developer @jFrog
Ix-chel Ruiz has developed software application & tools since 2000. Her research interests include Java, dynamic languages, client-side technologies and testing. Java Champion, Ground breaker ambassador, hackergarten enthusiast, Open Source advocate, author, public speaker and mentor.
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