Shipping code like a Keptn: Automating your Kubernetes Delivery Pipelines so you can focus on code

With software projects becoming more and more complex, delivering new features into production quickly and safely has become a major challenge for most software organizations today. Making sure developers are able to develop and deploy new features in rapid cycles is a key success factor, but this task has long been neglected. The most successful software organizations are prioritizing this key success factor through a new practice called Developer Productivity Engineering. This practice is based on a culture where the entire organization collaborates to maximize developer productivity.

This talk will address the questions:

• What are the challenges organizations are facing regarding developer productivity?

• Who is responsible for maximizing developer productivity?

• Which skills are required in developer productivity engineering?

• What tools do teams use to measure and improve their productivity?

The No Fluff Just Stuff Java Symposium Tour Series, long considered the definitive conference series for software developers & architects, returns 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!

**Fifty (50) plus new sessions for 2019 to choose from! **

Event Name: 2019 New England Software Symposium
Dates: Sept 27-29th
Location: Framingham, MA
Venue: Sheraton Framingham
URL: https://nofluffjuststuff.com/boston

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: $1050/person thru August 26th

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

5-9 Attendees: $950/person
10-14 Attendees: $925/person
15-24 Attendees: $900/person
25-over Attendees: $875/person

What's Included - Registration Fee:

• Three Day All Access Pass
• Dinner & PM Breaks on Friday & Breakfast/Lunch & Breaks on Saturday/Sunday
• NFJS Laptop Bag & T-shirt
• Online Audio Recording of Available Sessions

Questions:  Email me - jzimmerman@bigskytechnology.com

See you there,

Jay Zimmerman
2019 NFJS Symposium Tour Series Director
jzimmerman@nofluffjuststuff.com

The new GraalVM from Oracle supports multiple languages including JavaScript, Python, Ruby, R, C++ as well as Java and other JVM languages. This opens up interesting possibilities for polyglot enterprise applications. Now you can use a Node library in a Java application or call an R statistical function from an EJB. Previously, this type of integration was extremely challenging. This session will provide recipes to get up and running along with best practices and some cool demos.

We would like to thank our event host https://www.jobcase.com for all the support for making this event possible in Cambridge.

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• The venue will open at 5:30 PM for networking, so come early and meet everyone else. 
• Pizza, drinks sponsored by Jobcase --- there will be some Gluten-free items as well.

This talk will examine features of Kotlin at a greater depth than most tutorials. Higher order functions will be covered, as well as reduction operations like reduce and fold, and lambdas with receivers. Those topics progress toward building DSLs and builders in Kotlin. Terms like “apply”, “let”, “use”, “also”, and “with” will be covered along with their typical use cases. Finally, an introduction to Kotlin coroutines will be included.

Details of the type system, including the Any, Unit, and Nothing classes, will be covered. Examples will be provided on how to define extension functions, infix operators, and inlining functions for efficiency.