This talk discusses the migration of microservices from Java to Kotlin. It takes a closer look at the challenges faced as a team, the impact on the day-to-day work in an agile environment and how to overcame technical hurdles integrating with Spring Boot and introducing asynchronous workflows with Kotlin coroutines.
Java Enterprise has come a long way. We want to focus on modern approaches on how to do enterprise applications, but where do we start? What technologies, tools, and approaches are a good choice for our applications and what allows us to effectively implement business logic and to deliver value …
This presentation proposes an exploration of serverless platforms, and some unanswered questions around them. Serverless computing is the hot new thing. Like any hyped technology, it promises a lot. However, questions remain around concept and implementation, especially when you start to compare how we’ve built systems in the past, and …
As Java programmers you are used to dealing with edge cases. But what about edge cases in the language? As a certification book author, Jeanne Boyarsky encounters lots of interesting and/or surprising behavior. This presentation will increase your awareness in these Java gotchas. This is not a Java puzzlers talk. …
Functional programmers have been saying for decades that they know the way to the future. Clearly they have been wrong, since imperative languages like Java are still far more popular. Clearly they have also been right, as the advantages of functional programming have become increasingly obvious.
Java 10 has local variable type inference, but type inference is not really new in Java. Is type inference good or bad? Are there challenges and limitations to using it? When is a good time to use type inference?
