The NEJUG Holiday Party is scheduled for our normal "second Thursday" in December, but it is not a normal presentation meeting. Instead, it's an "all fun time" event where we get to chat, eat, drink, and socialize. Come, join us for dinner, great conversation and raffle prizes. Buy your tickets now and get the early bird discount!

CLICK HERE 🡆  NEJUG Holiday Party Tickets (at EventBrite)

Menu items include:

• Rolls

• Salad
• Appetizers
• Chicken Parma
• Four Cheese Ravioli
• Rigatoni, Broccoli & Chicken
• Dessert
• Soft drinks, tea, and coffee are included.
• Cash bar also available.
• NO PIZZA - That's for regular meetings...

Space is limited to 50 guests so buy your tickets early! Tickets for yourself and your guests are available here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nejug-holiday-2018-tickets-51209185051

There will be a Raffle drawing and you have a chance to win a Gift Card -- Thanks to our sponsor Attivio

Corporate Sponsors:

We are looking for additional corporate sponsors to help maximize the fun! Contact Avi Neer <avineer@gmail.com> if you have a sponsor idea or contact for monetary support, raffles items, or door prizzes.

Thanks to our primary Holiday Party sponsor:

	John Galt contributes to the success of organizations and individuals throughout the United States by expertly matching them with one another. Founded in 1997, they have worked with thousands of organizations and individuals over the years to enable them to achieve success. Their focus is on contract technology professionals in disciplines which are critical to an organization’s success.
Raffle Gift Card Sponsor:
	Attivio is an intelligent answers and insights platform that brings intuitive search experiences to businesses. In doing so, we help mid-to-large sized companies solve their most complex search needs/projects, such as customer support, risk avoidance, and digital transformation. To do this, we leverage our own natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) capabilities to provide a personalized and accurate search experience that delivers actionable answers to every question, instead of a simple list of links.

While "DevOps" is a very overrated and misused marketing term, we have many DevOps stories from around the world proving that shared responsibility between Dev and Ops can work out really well.

A key component of DevOps is open communication and feedback loops. Monitoring data is one source of these feedback loops. Too often, however, this is only done in Operations for firefighting and root cause analysis. Kevin will discuss approaches of Shifting-Left Performance into the Continuous Delivery Pipeline to give earlier and faster performance, scalability and architectural feedback to developers, testers, architects and business.

The presentation will include some hands-on experience on how to bake monitoring into DevOps tool chains such as JIRA, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Git, HipChat, JMeter, … - there should be something for everyone who wants to learn some new tips & tricks on how to become more “DevOps’y”

Check out the Prezzi that Jonathan made for this presentation

https://prezi.com/view/awP8F1N9QDV3vRCEAYCY/

Kubernetes out of the box is a strong platform for running and coordinating large collections of services, containers, and applications. As is, Kubernetes is powerful for many solutions.

Remember Underdog?  He was a mild-mannered dog, but when stress and conflict were introduced to the plot he took a magic pill, he became a superhero. Istio is a superhero for Kubernetes.

Istio is an open, platform-independent service mesh that manages communications between services in a transparent way. With a distributed architecture many things can fail, slow down and become less secure. Istio provides solutions to those stresses in our plot toward this architecture style:

    • Traffic management

    • Observability

    • Policy enforcement

    • Service identity and security

We will explore these benefits with Istio through some working examples on Kubernetes. The key point is this meshing solution allows your Java code to be less coupled to the inherent weaknesses of a distributed platform.

Register today for the 2018 New England Software Symposium returning Sept 28-30th to Framingham, MA

The No Fluff Just Stuff Java Symposium Tour Series long considered the premier Java/JVM/Agility Event Series is returning to Boston this fall! Witness first hand the best a conference has to offer: exceptional speakers, content rich ninety (90) minute technical sessions, right sized event model (capped at 250 attendees) all experienced in a vendor free environment.  At a No Fluff Just Stuff event, the focus is entirely on the attendee experience and nothing else!

**Local Venue, World Class Experience**

Event Name: 2018 New England Software Symposium
Dates: Sept 28-30th
Location: Framingham, MA
Venue: Sheraton Framingham
URL: https://nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/boston/2018/09/home

Make sure and use your special JUG discount of $50 by using the promo code nfjsusergroup50 when registering.
If you are registering with a group, the highest discount will apply - group or JUG discount.

REGISTRATION FEES:

Early Bird Individual: $1025/person thru Sept 10th

Excellent Group Discounts! Available - bring your entire development team to the show:

5-9 Attendees: $900/person
10-14 Attendees: $875/person
15-24 Attendees: $850/person
25-over Attendees: $825/person

 

See you there!

Jay Zimmerman

2018 NFJS Tour Director

jzimmerman@bigskytechnology.com