Presented at JAX London 2013
Test Driven Development is a practice generally endorsed by most people. However it is also one of the most difficult to get right. I am part of a very large project where we decided to use TDD from the very start. We encountered a number of challenges and learned a lot of lessons. We are still learning and evolving our approach to TDD. We discovered that doing TDD badly is actually worse than not doing TDD at all and that it is very important to get some basics rights otherwise you'll put yourself in a world of pain.
How to quickly add a safety net to a legacy codebaseNelis Boucké
Did you ever inherited a horrible legacy system to maintain and you were scared to introduce bugs touching it? If you did (who never did?) then this post is for you.
You can find the accompanying video and blogpost soon on
How to quickly add a safety net to a legacy codebaseNelis Boucké
Did you ever inherited a horrible legacy system to maintain and you were scared to introduce bugs touching it? If you did (who never did?) then this post is for you.
You can find the accompanying video and blogpost soon on
Software development process, in-house or outsourced, might be a challenge. It is important to choose a vendor or hire a team of professionals who understand that quality of source code directly impacts the overall cost of your project. You most probably want to find a vendor who knows how to reveal all the risk hidden behind low quality code. Tricky part in revealing risk and possible quality issues is that you have to know how to do this at the time of development, not when it’s already too late.
Author:
Łukasz Koczwara - Software Development Manager @ STX Next
A discussion about unit testing strategies and test-driven development on the Android platform including:
* Unit Testing & TDD Overview
* Android Testing Framework
* JUnit 4 + POJO Library
* Robolectric
Ryktene om TDDs død er sterkt overdrevet, men det har skjedd mye inn test-drevet utvikling siden Kent Beck introduserte TDD med Extreme Programming i 1999. TDD, BDD, ATDD, ST, DDT … hvordan passer alt dette sammen? Hva skal til for å lykkes med automatisert testing?
Roman Sevastyanov "Рефакторинг - пути улучшения кода"Fwdays
Рефакторинг – важная часть разработки любого большого проекта. В этом докладе я сфокусируюсь на основных техниках рефакторинга кода.
Также мы обсудим следующее:
Когда нужно рефакторить код?
Что такое чистый код?
Причем тут тесты?
Two years ago, we introduced Spock tests into the MongoDB Java driver. The decision could be considered controversial – the project used no external dependencies in production code, and was 100% Java. But there was a back door… with Gradle as the build system, there was a tiny excuse to use Groovy in the project, provided it wasn’t in the production code. That’s all the excuse we needed to start using Spock for unit and, later, integration tests.
Groovy has a lot of advantages as a testing language, and with Spock’s mocking, stubbing, and data driven testing features, it might seem as if this is the perfect way to write tests. In this session, Trisha will cover some of the features that make Spock (and Groovy) compelling for writing tests. But in the interests of fairness, she’ll also discuss some of the downsides, and the times when Java was chosen instead.
You want to improve your software skills. That’s a given. You may be a mentor or a manager who needs to improve the knowledge sharing among your software developers across different projects. Code Reviews can do just that while improving code quality in your projects. Code Review not only builds developer team spirit but also offers new ways to improve a software solution. You’ll walk away from this session with in-depth understanding of Code Review to strengthen your team.
Presentation from Agile Base Camp 2 conference (Kiev, May 2010) and AgileDays'11 (Moscow, March 2011) about one of the most useful engineering practices from XP world.
A code review is basically a technical discussion which should lead to improvements in the code and/or sharing
knowledge in a team. As with any conversation, it should have substance and form.
What’s involved in a good code review? What kind of problems do we want to spot and address? Trisha Gee will talk
about things a reviewer may consider when looking at changes: what potential issues to look for; why certain
patterns may be harmful; and, of course, what NOT to look at.
But when it comes to commenting on someone’s work, it may be hard to find the right words to convey a useful message
without offending the authors - after all, this is something that they worked hard on. Maria Khalusova will share
some observations, thoughts and practical tricks on how to give and receive feedback without turning a code review
into a battlefield.
Peer code review is one of the most effective ways to find defects – but is it agile? Because agile teams loathe heavy process, code review practices can easily fail. However, lightweight peer code review aligns well with the central tenets of agile—keeping feedback close to the point of creation, increasing team velocity by finding defects faster, and improving collective code ownership through frequent collaboration. Gregg Sporar shares recent research on code review practices and describes an agile code review approach—how much time to spend, which code to review, how much code to review at a time, how to set goals, the value of annotation, and more. After comparing four styles of code review—pair programming, over-the-shoulder, email, and tool-assisted—Gregg gives specific advice for creating review checklists and dealing with the social effects of code review in an agile environment.
Designing and Building a Graph Database Application - Ian Robinson (Neo Techn...jaxLondonConference
Presented at JAX London
In this session we'll look at some of the design and implementation strategies you can employ when building a Neo4j-based graph database solution, including architectural choices, data modelling, and testing.
What's new in Windows 10? See presentation from a live webinar with virtual classroom IT training expert – Martin Budnarowski – who gives a walk through some of the features in Microsoft’s latest OS - Windows 10.
Microsoft are taking a new direction. Their new Windows 10 will change the way you and your learners use your technology. It will unify all devices from your mobile phone to your tablet to your PC; some people call it the Internet of Things. Windows 10 is a true game changer!
If you’re interested in learning what’s new in Windows 10, see the slides from our recent webinar hosted in CloudRooms™, live online learning solution.
Software development process, in-house or outsourced, might be a challenge. It is important to choose a vendor or hire a team of professionals who understand that quality of source code directly impacts the overall cost of your project. You most probably want to find a vendor who knows how to reveal all the risk hidden behind low quality code. Tricky part in revealing risk and possible quality issues is that you have to know how to do this at the time of development, not when it’s already too late.
Author:
Łukasz Koczwara - Software Development Manager @ STX Next
A discussion about unit testing strategies and test-driven development on the Android platform including:
* Unit Testing & TDD Overview
* Android Testing Framework
* JUnit 4 + POJO Library
* Robolectric
Ryktene om TDDs død er sterkt overdrevet, men det har skjedd mye inn test-drevet utvikling siden Kent Beck introduserte TDD med Extreme Programming i 1999. TDD, BDD, ATDD, ST, DDT … hvordan passer alt dette sammen? Hva skal til for å lykkes med automatisert testing?
Roman Sevastyanov "Рефакторинг - пути улучшения кода"Fwdays
Рефакторинг – важная часть разработки любого большого проекта. В этом докладе я сфокусируюсь на основных техниках рефакторинга кода.
Также мы обсудим следующее:
Когда нужно рефакторить код?
Что такое чистый код?
Причем тут тесты?
Two years ago, we introduced Spock tests into the MongoDB Java driver. The decision could be considered controversial – the project used no external dependencies in production code, and was 100% Java. But there was a back door… with Gradle as the build system, there was a tiny excuse to use Groovy in the project, provided it wasn’t in the production code. That’s all the excuse we needed to start using Spock for unit and, later, integration tests.
Groovy has a lot of advantages as a testing language, and with Spock’s mocking, stubbing, and data driven testing features, it might seem as if this is the perfect way to write tests. In this session, Trisha will cover some of the features that make Spock (and Groovy) compelling for writing tests. But in the interests of fairness, she’ll also discuss some of the downsides, and the times when Java was chosen instead.
You want to improve your software skills. That’s a given. You may be a mentor or a manager who needs to improve the knowledge sharing among your software developers across different projects. Code Reviews can do just that while improving code quality in your projects. Code Review not only builds developer team spirit but also offers new ways to improve a software solution. You’ll walk away from this session with in-depth understanding of Code Review to strengthen your team.
Presentation from Agile Base Camp 2 conference (Kiev, May 2010) and AgileDays'11 (Moscow, March 2011) about one of the most useful engineering practices from XP world.
A code review is basically a technical discussion which should lead to improvements in the code and/or sharing
knowledge in a team. As with any conversation, it should have substance and form.
What’s involved in a good code review? What kind of problems do we want to spot and address? Trisha Gee will talk
about things a reviewer may consider when looking at changes: what potential issues to look for; why certain
patterns may be harmful; and, of course, what NOT to look at.
But when it comes to commenting on someone’s work, it may be hard to find the right words to convey a useful message
without offending the authors - after all, this is something that they worked hard on. Maria Khalusova will share
some observations, thoughts and practical tricks on how to give and receive feedback without turning a code review
into a battlefield.
Peer code review is one of the most effective ways to find defects – but is it agile? Because agile teams loathe heavy process, code review practices can easily fail. However, lightweight peer code review aligns well with the central tenets of agile—keeping feedback close to the point of creation, increasing team velocity by finding defects faster, and improving collective code ownership through frequent collaboration. Gregg Sporar shares recent research on code review practices and describes an agile code review approach—how much time to spend, which code to review, how much code to review at a time, how to set goals, the value of annotation, and more. After comparing four styles of code review—pair programming, over-the-shoulder, email, and tool-assisted—Gregg gives specific advice for creating review checklists and dealing with the social effects of code review in an agile environment.
Designing and Building a Graph Database Application - Ian Robinson (Neo Techn...jaxLondonConference
Presented at JAX London
In this session we'll look at some of the design and implementation strategies you can employ when building a Neo4j-based graph database solution, including architectural choices, data modelling, and testing.
What's new in Windows 10? See presentation from a live webinar with virtual classroom IT training expert – Martin Budnarowski – who gives a walk through some of the features in Microsoft’s latest OS - Windows 10.
Microsoft are taking a new direction. Their new Windows 10 will change the way you and your learners use your technology. It will unify all devices from your mobile phone to your tablet to your PC; some people call it the Internet of Things. Windows 10 is a true game changer!
If you’re interested in learning what’s new in Windows 10, see the slides from our recent webinar hosted in CloudRooms™, live online learning solution.
Introducing Vert.x 2.0 - Taking polyglot application development to the next ...jaxLondonConference
Presented at JAX London 2013
Vert.x is a lightweight, high performance, application platform for the JVM that's designed for modern mobile, web, and enterprise applications. The recent Vert.x 2.0 release marks a coming of age for Vert.x, as it progresses to a fully independent project. We'll dive into the Vert.x 2.0 release and show how the powerful new module system enables a Vert.x ecosystem by allowing modules to be re-used via Maven and Bintray repositories. You'll also learn about how better build tool and IDE integration makes developing applications with Vert.x a breeze.
Are Hypermedia APIs Just Hype? - Aaron Phethean (Temenos) & Daniel Feist (Mul...jaxLondonConference
Presented at JAX London 2013
Hypermedia or HATEOAS APIs get a lot of air cover but there aren't many of them in the wild. This session will summarize the challenges that exist when building hypermedia REST API’s and explain why it’s worth it. We’ll take a comparative look at various different approaches for using hypermedia in a typical REST API, before taking a closer look at an approach that automatically generates links from a semantically rich API definition.
Lambda Expressions: Myths and Mistakes - Richard Warburton (jClarity)jaxLondonConference
Presented at JAX London 2013
tl;dr - How will the everyday developer cope with Java 8’s Language changes?
Java 8 will ship with a powerful new abstraction - Lambda Expressions (aka Closures) and a completely retooled set of Collections libraries. In addition interfaces have changed through the addition of default and static methods. The ongoing debate as to whether Java should include such language changes has resulted in many vocal opinions being espoused. Sadly few of these opinions have been backed up by practical experimentation and experience. - Are these opinions just myths?
Presented as a keynote at JAX London 2013
A programmer's perspective on the Internet of Things, reactive development, the hacker ethic, and how we can open up software development, making and craft to the masses. This talk features a live presentation of a home-made, modified Internet of Things. And robots. Audience participation... mandatory!
Design is a Process, not an Artefact - Trisha Gee (MongoDB)jaxLondonConference
Presented at JAX London 2013
Agile methodologies have had us moving away from Big Up Front Design to evolutionary, emergent design. But how does that work in the real world? Using experiences gained when creating the new Java driver for MongoDB, Trisha takes us on a design journey, where the answer to every question is "It Depends", the users of the system and their use cases are unknown, and lurking at the back of every decision is the question “but will it be backwards compatible?” We’ve all been there, trying to work out how to implement requirements, but have we really thought about the process of design?
Are you better than a coin toss? - Richard Warbuton & John Oliver (jClarity)jaxLondonConference
Presented at JAX London 2013
So you’re a big data and distributed systems “expert”, you’ve collected 500 billion data points, thrown it into sci-lib-of-the-week, you’re using Hadoop, backing onto those cool AWS GPU instances, let it grind away for days and it's spit out the answer to life the universe and everything. But is it really better than a coin toss? How do you validate whether your data analysis algorithm works? Are you learning a solution to your problems or just the data you already have? What problems can you encounter when analysing your data?
Big data from the LHC commissioning: practical lessons from big science - Sim...jaxLondonConference
Presented at JAX London 2013
The Large Hadron Collider experiments manage tens of petabytes of data spread across hundreds of data centres. Managing and processing this volume required significant infrastructure and novel software systems, involving years of R&D and significant commissioning to prepare for the LHC First Data. The evolution of this global computing infrastructure, and the specialisations made by the experiments, have lessons relevant for many commercial "big data" users.
Presented at JAX London 2013.
Software craftsman and co-founder of the London Software Craftsmanship Community (LSCC). Sandro has been coding since a very young age but just started his professional career in 1996. He has worked for startups, software houses, product companies and international consultancy companies. Having worked as a consultant for the majority of his career, he had the opportunity to work in a good variety of projects, with different languages and technologies, and across many industries. Currently he is a director at UBS Investment Bank, where he works as a hands-on mentor, giving technical directions, looking after the quality of the systems and pair-programming with developers in the UK and abroad. His main objective is to help developers to become real software craftsmen.
Practical Performance: Understand the Performance of Your Application - Chris...jaxLondonConference
Presented at JAX London 2013
When you write and run Java code, the JVM makes several allocations on your behalf, but do you have an understanding of how much that is? This session provides insight into the memory usage of Java code, covering the memory overhead of putting int into an integer object and the cost of object delegation and the memory efficiency of the different collection types. It also gives you an understanding of the off-Java (native) heap memory usage of some types of Java objects, such as threads and sockets.
Databases and agile development - Dwight Merriman (MongoDB)jaxLondonConference
Presented as a keynote at JAX London 2013
Much has been made of scalability as a driver for choosing a database, but the choice of a database influences much more than the scaling architecture. Different database choices drive different data models which in turn influence the development process.
Real-world polyglot programming on the JVM - Ben Summers (ONEIS)jaxLondonConference
Presented at JAX London 2013
Java is not the only language! The JVM is a wonderful common runtime for a wide variety of languages. By using the right language for each task, you can deliver higher quality applications in less time.
Bringing your app to the web with Dart - Chris Buckett (Entity Group)jaxLondonConference
Presented at JAX London 2013
Building complex applications in the browser is hard especially when you are working in teams. Dart is ideal for developing the next generation of web applications in an enterprise environment, by allowing you to communicate type information to your fellow developers and automated tools. With familiar (but lightweight) syntax, class-based OOP and a type system that allows tooling, Java developers will quickly feel at home with Dart.
Presented at JAX London 2013
Whether we're talking Analytics, Big Data, Cloud, NoSQL, Continuous Integration and Deployment, Mobile computing or Minecraft, Java is at the nexus of the mass convergence of trends we're currently seeing in tech. It's still fashionable in Web developer circles to dismiss Java the language, but its not going anywhere, and the JVM as we know it goes from strength to strength. In this talk James Governor will look to put the return of Java into context, with both stories, and quantitative data.
Presented at JAX London 2013
Groovy is not a newcomer to the arena of alternative languages for the JVM. With over 1.7 million downloads a year, it's clearly ahead of the pack. But what makes it a great choice for your projects?
- a flat learning curve for Java developers
- its seamless Java integration where you can mix & mash Groovy & Java together
- a malleable & concise syntax fit for Domain-Specific Languages
- an interesting take on type safety
- its rich ecosystem of projects: Grails, Gradle, GPars, Spock, Griffon, Geb...
A TDD presentation I did to inform people about this methodology of software development. I tried to target the additional values it gives in our everyday work as developers.
Ever tried doing Test First Test Driven Development? Ever failed? TDD is not easy to get right. Here's some practical advice on doing BDD and TDD correctly. This presentation attempts to explain to you why, what, and how you should test, tell you about the FIRST principles of tests, the connections of unit testing and the SOLID principles, writing testable code, test doubles, the AAA of unit testing, and some practical ideas about structuring tests.
xUnit and TDD: Why and How in Enterprise Software, August 2012Justin Gordon
“A comprehensive suite of JUnit tests is one of the most import aspects of a software project because it reduces bugs, facilitates adding new developers, and enables refactoring and performance tuning with confidence. Test-driven development (TDD) is the best way to build a suite of tests. And the Dependent Object Framework is the best way to test against database objects.” This presentation covers the benefits of TDD along with practical advice on how to implement TDD in complex projects.
Ruby is a fantastic and fun language to program in, but is it ready for prime time? I will present ideas, tips, and tactics for scaling ruby applications to handle massive throughput based on real world examples. Enterprise architecture shouldn't fear ruby, they should embrace it.
Agile * Agile Principles * Agile Practices * Pair Programming * Extreme Programming * SOLID design principles * SDLC * Software Development
After working 10 years in multiple major "from-scratch" development projects, I finally got a chance to work in a truly Agile development project. Here is my take on how to make Agile work for your project.
Productive development with ReactJs.
How to boost developer’s efficiency and productivity? Boost development productivity with automating routine tasks and keep yourself from stupid mistakes. Make full use of Webpack/React hot reload, Redux dev tools, EsLint, git hooks, useful IDE plugins and CSS preprocessors.
This presentation is simply for motivating developers towards test automation and test-driven development. It discusses lightly unit testing, mocking and integration testing, too.
This is a 90 min talk with some exercises and discussion that I gave at the DHS Agile Expo. It places DevOps as a series of feedback loops and emphasizes agile engineering practices being at the core.
TDD is now mainstream but a lot people don't know or don't remember what is its purpose. TDD is about software design not testing or catching bug. TDD helps developers to shape and create software with "good" design, what is a "good" design is something that we will discuss in the topic.
Garbage Collection: the Useful Parts - Martijn Verburg & Dr John Oliver (jCla...jaxLondonConference
This presentation gives the busy Java/JVM developer an overview of how Garbage Collection in the JVM works and the common collectors that are used. We also cover how to read and interpret the scary log format and most importantly, offer strategies to deal with badly behaving memory (e.g. The dreaded OOME!).
Conflict Free Replicated Data-types in Eventually Consistent Systems - Joel J...jaxLondonConference
This talk was due to be presented at JAX London 2013, but the speaker was unfortunately unable to attend.
Distributed data stores give us increased availability, linear scalability, predictable latency and improved fault tolerance. The flip-side is having to deal with inconsistencies: most distributed databases will ask your application layer how to resolve such inconsistencies. Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) are a way for a distributed database, such as Riak, to resolve those inconsistencies logically and automatically. Unlike traditional data structures, there is always a single state on which they converge.
In this talk, I’ll look at the development of CRDTs from an academic project to implementation in Riak.
JVM Support for Multitenant Applications - Steve Poole (IBM)jaxLondonConference
Presented at JAX London 2013
Per-tenant resource management can help ensure that collocated tenants peacefully share computational resources based on individual quotas. This session begins with a comparison of deployment models (shared: hardware, OS, middleware, everything) to motivate the multitenant approach. The main topic is an exploration of experimental data isolation and resource management primitives in IBM’s JDK that combine to help make multitenant applications smaller and more predictable.
Packed Objects: Fast Talking Java Meets Native Code - Steve Poole (IBM)jaxLondonConference
Presented at JAX London 2013
Worried about the future of Java? Want to see it keep moving forward? Don't be concerned. The transformation of Java is already underway. Driven by new technologies and new opportunities Java and the JVM are entering uncharted worlds and challenging old approaches. In this session learn about one such expedition in the form of an introductory talk to technology being developed by IBM. This experimental technology is exploring a new way to share data between the JVM and other runtimes.
What You Need to Know About Lambdas - Jamie Allen (Typesafe)jaxLondonConference
Presented as a keynote at JAX London 2013
Lambdas are coming to the Java language in the upcoming release of Java 8! While this is generally great news, many Java developers have never experienced Lambdas before, and have not yet learned the best ways to use them for maximum productivity. In this talk, we will discuss best practices for using Lambdas in Java and other JVM-based languages, and we will investigate how we can make these constructs more usable in production.
The Spock unit testing framework is on the verge of a 1.0 release and has already proven itself to be the next generation thinking on how to test Java production code. One of the many ever present challenges to testing code is the ability to Mock classes which has simplified by Spock from a very early release. Recently added to Spock is the notion of Stubs and Spies. This sessions is designed to demonstrate proper unit testing technique showing off these new features along with a number of advanced Spock features.
Presented at JAX London
MapReduce begat Hadoop begat Big Data. NoSQL moved us away from the stricture of monolithic storage architectures to fit-for-purpose designs. But, Houston, we still have a problem. Architects are still designing systems like this is the '70s. SOA, went from buzzword to the bank with the emergence and evolution of the cloud and on-demand right-now elasticity. Yet most systems are still designed to store-then-compute rather than to observe, orient, decide and act on in-flight data.
The Java Virtual Machine is Over - The Polyglot VM is here - Marcus Lagergren...jaxLondonConference
Presented at JAX London 2013
Ever since Java’s inception, in 1995, people have been compiling languages that aren’t Java to bytecode and deploying them on the JVM. Lately we are seeing an explosion in JVM languages. This is partly, but not only, because of Java 7, the first JVM to ship with invokedynamic, which is a quantum leap in polyglot runtime implementation. This session explains why emerging language implementations are becoming more common and more feasible to implement on the JVM with satisfactory performance.
Java EE 7 Platform: Boosting Productivity and Embracing HTML5 - Arun Gupta (R...jaxLondonConference
Presented at JAX London 2013
The Java EE 7 platform focuses on Productivity and HTML5. JAX-RS 2 adds a new Client API to invoke the RESTful endpoints. JMS 2 is undergoing a complete overhaul to align with improvements in the Java language. The long awaited Batch Processing API and Concurrency API are also getting added to build applications using capabilities of the platform itself. Together these APIs will allow you to be more productive by simplifying enterprise development. WebSocket attempts to solve the issues and limitations of HTTP for real-time communication.
Presented at JAX London 2013
Clojure is the most interesting new language on the horizon, but many developers suffer from the Blub Paradox when they see the Lisp syntax. This talk introduces Clojure to developers who haven’t been exposed to it yet, focusing on the things that truly set it apart from other languages.
Run Your Java Code on Cloud Foundry - Andy Piper (Pivotal)jaxLondonConference
Presented at JAX London 2013
Public, private, and hybrid; software, platform, and infrastructure. This talk will discuss the current state of the Platform-as-a-Service space, and why the keys to success lie in enabling developer productivity, and providing openness and choice. We'll do this by considering the success of Open Source in general, look at the Cloud Foundry project, and find out why Cloud Foundry-based PaaSes are the best places to host your applications written in Java and other JVM-based languages.
Presented at JAX London 2013
This session shows you how Slick, the Scala database library, can bring your data seamlessly into your Scala application and compile Scala collection operations to database code for execution on the database server. There will be plenty of live coding that highlights the latest features such as distributed queries, macro-based type providers, and the use of non-SQL data stores.
Put your Java apps to sleep? Find out how - John Matthew Holt (Waratek)jaxLondonConference
Presented at JAX London 2013
Imagine if, when your applications weren't in use, they could go to sleep, just like your laptop does when idle. Just think how much money you could save on your infrastructure. The problem with many resource-intensive Java applications is that they are far more difficult to redeploy than they are to take down. Consequently applications tend to be left running whether they are being used or not.
Project Lambda: Functional Programming Constructs in Java - Simon Ritter (Ora...jaxLondonConference
Presented at JAX London 2013
The big language features for Java SE 8 are lambda expressions (closures) and default methods (formerly called defender methods or virtual extension methods). Adding lambda expressions to the language opens up a host of new expressive opportunities for applications and libraries. You might assume that lambda expressions are simply a more syntactically compact form of inner classes, but, in fact, the implementation of lambda expressions is substantially different and builds on the invokedynamic feature added in Java SE 7.
Do You Like Coffee with Your dessert? Java and the Raspberry Pi - Simon Ritte...jaxLondonConference
Presented at JAX London 2013
The Raspberry Pi has caused a huge wave of interest amongst developers, providing an ARM powered single board computer running a full Linux distro off an SD card and all for only $35! After an introduction to the Raspberry Pi and the ARM architecture, this session will look at how Java can be used on a device like this. Oracle have released an early access preview of JDK8 including JavaFX and a version of Java ME Embedded (3.3) tuned specifically for the Raspberry Pi.
Little words of wisdom for the developer - Guillaume Laforge (Pivotal)jaxLondonConference
Presented at JAX London 2013 Community Night
Through some famous quotes and pictures that will make you think, Guillaume Laforge, Head of Groovy Development for SpringSource, will illustrate some simple principles that he has followed on the projects he’s worked on, and walk through the lessons he’s learned throughout the journey. Guillaume is the official Groovy Project Manager, and the spec lead of JSR-241, the JSR that standardizes the Groovy dynamic language.
Large scale, interactive ad-hoc queries over different datastores with Apache...jaxLondonConference
Presented at JAX London 2013
Apache Drill is a distributed system for interactive ad-hoc query and analysis of large-scale datasets. It is the Open Source version of Google’s Dremel technology. Apache Drill is designed to scale to thousands of servers and able to process Petabytes of data in seconds, enabling SQL-on-Hadoop and supporting a variety of data sources.
Designing Resilient Application Platforms with Apache Cassandra - Hayato Shim...jaxLondonConference
Presented at JAX London 2013
All too often I have observed infrastructure designs for deploying Java applications come as an afterthought by businesses, technical analysts, and application developers. Choices of technologies are frequently made with no final deployment infrastructures being discussed. The talk will cover the design considerations on building resilient applications, and application deployment platforms across multiple data centres, and how organisations can leverage technologies such as Apache Cassandra to achieve this.
How Hailo fuels its growth using NoSQL storage and analytics - Dave Gardner (...jaxLondonConference
Presented at JAX London 2013
Hailo, the taxi app, has served more than 5 million passengers in 15 cities and has taken fares of $100 million this year. I'm going to talk about how that rapid growth has been powered by a platform based on Cassandra and operational analytics and insights powered by Acunu Analytics. I'll cover some challenges and lessons learned from scaling fast!
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Everyone’s doing it!Apparently : Practically shit out good quality software.
A couple of year ago … new project.We decided to do TDD … I mean would’ve been rude not to.Code coverage above 90%TDD key skill for hires.
And we’d seen the testing triangle.Outside in approach. Business Focuses Test but Run FastTake as much of the testing down towards unit level as possible.
Testing from a business perspectiveSo we’ll naturally write tests that are business focused.
We ramped up.Hired some very talented people. Kept our teams at high qualityTDD was part of our interview exercise.Most talented teams I’ve seen.
Then the shit hit the fan!Tests taking too long.System very difficult to change.Lots of defects in UAT … we weren’t live yet.
How could that happen to us?We were pretty good TDD’ers!We did everything right?
Remember: Written in Plain Language.Developers gravitated towards technical language.Business defined them at different levels … consequently an explosion of aggregates.
Well defined boundries.1 to Many -> Class to Attribute
The god class … Abstract TestDumping ground for fixturesMust understand to understand every test
Betterorganised fixtures and verificationsUses the common languageEasier to understandFlexible
Over 30 minutesBad Quality TestComponent tests doing too muchA lot of tests
Make them parallelLook for overlapPush them down to unit test level
Level not well understoodLeft it to developers to say if neededConcentrated too much in Component Tests
Actively involve the businessConstant feedback and visibilityUse it as your single place for understanding the system flows.
Did not represent the businessOrganised in technical componentsComponent Tests like concrete on Production code
Concentrate on designClean CodeSimple and Easy to understandDesign independent of technology / framework
Lots of defectsWe were doing TDD so why?
Turns out there is a log more to testing then just TDD
The specs should be created with involvement from business and development!
Software Design … Make sure that the design represent the business and is flexible where change is frequentIt’s about flexible software … your test suite must make change easier not more difficult.It’s about a holistic approach to testing … unit testing and test first is only a part of it.Know it’s limitations … some things can only be manually tested.Just because some forms of testing is difficult doesn’t mean you should leave it till the end.TDD is difficult … continuous education and practice is a must.Finally don’t do it because people say it’s a good idea – understand it’s pros and cons and see if it fits in your context.
Don’t do it just because people say it’s a good idea!It helps the team write software that is …Easy to understand and change
Quality / TDD / Design / Practice are interconnected
