J-Fall 2020 Virtual25 Videos

J-Fall Virtual 2020: Ádám Sándor – Modernize and Automate your Java Application for Kubernetes

Java applications can be a pain to operate on Kubernetes as many of them have been developed without containers and Kubernetes in mind. Operations folks are forced to understand how each of them gets configured (was that a system property or env var?) how it was crammed into a Docker image (Spring Boot self contained […]

J-Fall Virtual 2020: Thorben Janssen – Cause of Death: Hibernate

For years Hibernate has been optimized to store data and load of entire object graphs from the database. So you should assume that most persistence problems could be avoided by using Hibernate alone. But it’s surprisingly easy to harm your project with … or should I better say “thanks to Hibernate” … From practical experience […]

J-Fall Virtual 2020: Jeroen Borgers – Fixing your performance and concurrency bugs before they bite you

Performance and concurrency bugs are the most difficult to find types of bugs. Once they are released in production, they tend to hide and wait for the right moment to attack you in unexpected ways, which makes them so difficult to catch. In this presentation, I will show you several of those defects in Java […]

J-Fall Virtual 2020: Roy van Rijn & Roy Braam – 30 minutes of Failure

This talk will be filled with failure. Innocent failures, funny failures, small failures, but also failures that took out an entire online banking system for hours. Failures made with a single click and elaborate failures that took months of preparation. There is nothing better than gloating about mistakes and learning from them. Failure often comes […]

J-Fall Virtual 2020: Ivar Grimstad – Jakarta EE 9 and Beyond

Jakarta EE 9 is coming! This is the second release of Jakarta EE since the transition from the Java Community Process (JCP) to the Eclipse Foundation. In this session, we will go through every aspect of Jakarta EE 9 and how this release lowers the barriers of entry, eases the migration, and lays the foundation […]

J-Fall Virtual 2020: Rory Preddy – Programming for Accessibility

My life is a hilarious roller coaster of miss-intended programming bugs because at 120 cm tall and 50 kilograms I completely fall off your radar. Why did my scale call me! Why does facial recognition see me as a child? These are all valid questions I often ask myself as I navigate my weird and […]

J-Fall Virtual 2020: Ignite Sessions

Tetris Shaped Developers By Berwout de Vries Robles T-shaped professionals is a term we have used to describe people working in Software Development for years now and it did not age well. It no longer accurately describes the field of Software Development and on top of that it is a much too boring account of […]

J-Fall Virtual 2020: Robbert Noordzij – Building a high performing Passenger Information System

Everyday millions of passengers commute by train. Using apps, websites and overhead displays they plan their journey through the network. Over 30.000 train activities including all their changes need to be communicated. The current software is over 10 years old and is hard to change. The original plan of rebuilding the software would stretch 8 […]

J-Fall Virtual 2020: Igmar Palsenberg – Shifting gear, A Reactive Story in Banking

When I joined ING, I was new to payments. I quickly learned that payments is a complex beast. Payments are in a lot of cases is based on “old” technologies, since it’s usually one of the oldest service the bank runs. Most banks still run a considerable amount of COBOL code. That by itself poses […]

Full title: J-Fall Virtual 2020: Simone van Erp, Marin Jankovski, Daniel Gebler & Daan van Osch – Panel Discussion about remote working in this Corona era

Please excuse us for the missing of the first question: How do you personally feel about working from home and how does it affect you? Bio Simone: Co-owner IT Rockstars. Wij zien IT’ers als de Rockstars van dit moment én van de toekomst. Alle grote veranderingen in de wereld komen van hun hand. Van elektrische […]