1. Trisha Gee (@trisha_gee)
Developer & Technical Advocate, JetBrains
Staying Ahead
of the Curve

2. or:
New Things Are
Dangerous, mmmkay

3. Let’s Learn Lambdas!

6. erm…

7. Let’s Go Parallel!

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TimeTaken(seconds) map()
MacBook Surface

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TimeTaken(millis) findAny()
MacBook Surface

10. Wait a minute…

11. Why?

12. 1. For the Business
2. For the Team
3. For You
Why?

13. 1. For The Business

14. Why? Real Time Data Analysis & Display

16. Why? New Market

17. Why? New Market

18. Automated Testing

19. Continuous Integration

20. Continuous Delivery

21. DevOps

23. Why? Lean Startup & Geolocation

25. How?
Prototype

26. {
"openStreetMapId": "20980098",
"location": {
"coordinates": [151.2728552, -33.8931988],
"type": "Point"
},
"amenity": "cafe",
"cuisine": "coffee_shop",
"name": "Gloria Jean's"
},
{
"openStreetMapId": "27653001",
"location": {
"coordinates": [-1.6937433, 53.9043868],
"type": "Point"
},
"addr:city": "Otley",
"addr:country": "GB",
"addr:housenumber": "9",
"addr:postcode": "LS21 3HE",
"addr:street": "Mercury Row",
"amenity": "cafe",
"cuisine": "coffee_shop",
"gluten_free": "yes",
"is_in:town": "Otley",
"name": "The Walkway Cafe"
} ,
{
"openStreetMapId": "21554712",
"location": {
"coordinates": [151.9519968, -27.5601496],
"type": "Point"
},
"amenity": "cafe",
"created_by": "JOSM",

27. Technology Limitations

28. How or Where?
• Spikes / prototypes
• Use in non-production code
• Build / Deploy / Continuous Delivery Pipeline
• Tests
• Use in internal tools
• Use on a new project or service
• Get the experts in (remember to share)

29. 2. For The Team

30. Why? Painful Releases

32. Why? Code that’s hard to understand

34. Why? Testing is Hard and Inconsistent

35. How
Spike

36. Where
Test code

38. Technology Limitations

39. How or Where?
•Spikes / prototypes
•Use in non-production code
• Build / Deploy / Continuous Delivery Pipeline
• Tests
•Use in internal tools
•Skunkworks projects / hack days

40. 3. For You

41. Why?

42. So Much Choice!

45. How or Where?
•User Groups
•Blogs & Tutorials
•Online courses
•Books
•Pet project
•Join an open source project
•Find a project at work
•Get a new job!

46. Why?

47. Because you want to

48. How or Where?

49. Culture of
Continuous
Learning

50. When?

51. Preventing Premature
Implementation
•Brown Bags
•User Groups
•Hack days
•Skunkworks
•20% time
•Gold Card days
•Conferences

52. Risks

53. Benefits

55. Skilled People

56. Ready to adopt the right tool

57. …at the right time

58. Happy People

59. In Summary

60. Don’t Panic!

62. Lambdas: The Right Way

66. http://bit.ly/stay-ahead
@trisha_gee