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

While many platform-level operational tasks have been automated with Kubernetes and operators, managing individual microservices and applications is often still a highly manual task. Even cloud-native applications often rely on runbooks and hand-crafted pipelines. In many cases, these practices even differ from application to application.

The Dynatrace innovation lab saw the same problem and built an open-source fabric for autonomous declarative operations called Keptn (pronounced “Captain.") Keptn provides a ready-to-use framework for GitOps-based pipelines, standardized deployment models, monitoring and operations as a service. Keptn also allows automating operational tasks with runbook automation and self-healing. With Keptn, Developers can focus on code instead of creating YAML files, DevOps can focus on tools instead of building pipelines, SREs can enforce processes instead of debugging problems.  We have recently released Keptn 0.4.0 (http://keptn.sh) and plans are underway to submit the project for incubation within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (https://www.cncf.io/).

In this talk, we will share information on:

• WHY we've built Keptn
• its technical underpinnings
• share current project status
• discuss how the community could help! 

The talk also has live demos of onboarding an application comprised of Spring Boot application services and deploying through a multi-stage pipeline orchestrated by Keptn. 

We would like to thank our Food Sponsor, Rocket Insights

http://rocketinsights.com/careers

Presentation slides are availble here.

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.