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J-Spring 2019 Keynote: Wouter Oet – Keynote: A life of working and learning in IT: Challenge accepted!

In an ever changing world, developers sometimes struggle to keep up with all the changes happening. There are just too many releases of languages, frameworks and libraries to keep up with. Not to mention the broadening of our profession. Pipelines, runtimes, security and Ops are also part of it. We are going to face that […]

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J-Spring 2019: Emond Papegaaij – Oauth2 demystified

Almost every developer will have to face this at some point in his or her career: authorization with OAuth2. It doesn’t matter if you build mobile apps, web applications or even develop for embedded systems in the IoT, everybody seems to use OAuth2 nowadays. But how does this protocol work and what’s up with all […]

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J-Spring 2019: Bert Ertman – Are We Really Cloud-Native?

As Java developers we are used to adjusting ourselves in heterogeneous environments and so over the last ten years or so we gained experience with PaaS, VMs, Containers, DevOps, Continuous Integration and Microservices Architectures. Now a new phenomenon arises: building greenfield applications with the intent of using agile application development and architecting specifically for the […]

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J-Spring 2019: Onno Schellekens & Barry Lagerweij – Keynote: Can we use mobile technology to leapfrog universal health for developing countries?

Mobile technology is changing the world at a speed nobody can imagine. Industrial activities are being revolutionized. There is a real opportunity to use mobile technology to leapfrog healthcare in developing countries. Bio Onno Onno Schellekens is voorzitter van het Joep Lange Instituut en algemeen directeur van PharmAccess. Hij is medeoprichter van het Investment Fund […]

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J-Spring 2019: Michel Schudel – Cryptography 101 for Java developers

So you’re logging in to your favorite crypto currency exchange over https using a username and password, executing some transactions, and you’re not at all surprised that, security wise, everything’s hunky dory… Ever wondered about the amount of cryptography begin used here? No? Let’s dive into the key concepts of cryptography then, and see how […]

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J-Spring 2019: Brian Vermeer – Live exploiting your open source dependencies

Today, almost all software heavily relies on the use of third-party dependencies. While open source modules are undoubtedly awesome, they also represent an undeniable and massive risk. You’re introducing someone else’s code into your system, often with little or no scrutiny. Including the wrong package can introduce severe vulnerabilities, exposing your application and your user’s […]

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J-Spring 2019: Peter Hilton – Why you should care about code style and what you should care about

Coding style matters, but not only in the way you think. Programmers famously waste time arguing indentation styles, while whole teams lack a consistent vision for their code style, and consistent code. This talk highlights what really matters, and what you need to learn to write code with vision and style. Attendees will learn about […]

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J-Spring 2019: Sven Peters – Less Process, more Autonomy with a Team Playbook

Teams are different, projects are different, problems are different. Why are we still trying to squeeze teamwork into department processes, adding bureaucracy, and having organizational layers that makes it harder and much slower to get work done? Join Sven Peters, former lead evangelist at Atlassian now K15t, as he talks about creating a Team Playbook […]

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J-Spring 2019: Burr Sutter – Supersonic, Subatomic Java with Quarkus

Introducing Quarkus.io. The rise in popularity of the Linux® container as the primary way to package your application seemed like a simple change on the surface. Yet, as we saw with the Java Docker Fail problem, it was not a transition completely without challenges for the Java™ community. Furthermore, we have now seen a number […]

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J-Spring 2019: Katherine Stanley – An introduction to Apache Kafka – this is Event Streaming, not just Messaging

The amount of data the world produces is growing exponentially every year and many companies are realising the potential of harnessing this data. A lot of this is generated in the form of a never ending stream of events, with publishers creating the events and subscribers consuming them in many different ways. This is where […]

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