Back end

These are the sessions tagged with Back end at Øredev 2012:

Monday

8.30-16.30

Performance in a Large Scale Cloud

This tutorial will focus on what the participants prefer. Any two-three of the following areas regarding Performance in a large scale cloud can be covered with real experiences from Facebook. What large scale means, What does performance mean, Performance Monitoring, Monitoring Part 1 - live demo of dynolog demon, Monitoring Part 2 - Live performance testing, Information, Smart deployment guards against service/product failures, Performance Analysis, Benchmarking and Capacity Planning.

Tags: Architecture Back end Cloud Dev Ops Hard Core Test

Performance in a Large Scale CloudGoranka Bjedov

Goranka Bjedov works as a Capacity Planning Engineer at Facebook. Her main interests include performance, capacity and reliability analysis. Prior to joining Facebook, Goranka has also spent five years performance testing at Google and worked for Network Appliance and AT&T Labs. Prior to that she was a professor at Purdue University. A speaker at numerous testing and performance conferences around the world, Goranka has authored many papers, presentations and two textbooks.

Tuesday

8.30-16.30

A practical introduction to Java EE 6

During this workshop you will get a complete overview of Java EE 6. You will learn to develop web applications and RESTful web services using CDI, JSF, EJB, JAX-RS and JPA. We will add integration tests to the code using Arquillian. We will also discuss some architectural patterns and setup a project that can be build on a CI server. During the workshop we will mix theory and hands-on, you will write a complete application yourself.

Tags: Back end Hands on Java

A practical introduction to Java EE 6Paul Bakker

Paul Bakker is an architect for Luminis Technologies. Paul is contributor on several open source projects; for the past year most notably JBoss Forge. He also works on Amdatu, Apache ACE and has contributed to BndTools and several other JBoss projects. He has a background as trainer where he was teaching Java related courses and is still a regular conference speaker on conferences such as Devoxx, JavaOne, JFokus, JBoss World, JUDCon and JFall.

Wednesday

10.00-10.50

Hypermedia and ASP.NET Web API, where do you want to go today?

Building hypermedia systems these days is all the rage. Those who achieve building hypermedia systems are promised fame, success and mountains of riches. OK that’s not true! But hypermedia does help you to build systems where the client and server can evolve somewhat independently, and that is a big deal. Come this talk and we’ll deep dive into exactly what hypermedia is and different ways to achieve building hypermedia driven systems with ASP.NET Web API.

Tags: Architecture Back end Web .NET

Hypermedia and ASP.NET Web API, where do you want to go today?Glenn Block

Glenn is a PM at Microsoft working on support for node.js in Windows and Azure. Glenn has a breadth of experience both both inside and outside Microsoft developing software solutions for ISVs and the enterprise. Glenn has been a passionate supporter of open source and has been active in involving folks from the community in the development of software at Microsoft. This has included shipping products under open source licenses, as well as assisting other teams looking to do so. Glenn is also a lover of community and a frequent speaker at local and international events and user groups. Glenn's blog can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/gblock or you can follow him on twitter at you own risk at twitter.com/gblock

11.10-12.00

Up up and Out: Scaling software with Akka 2

Akka is a unified runtime and programming model for scaling both UP (utilizing multi-core processors) and OUT (utilizing the grid/cloud). With Akka 2 this will be taken to a whole new level with its “Distributed by Design”. Akka 2 provides location transparency by abstracting away both these tangents of scalability by turning them into an operations and configuration task. In this talk you will learn what Akka is and how it can be used to solve hard scalability problems. http://akka.io

Tags: Back end Emerging languages Java

Up up and Out: Scaling software with Akka 2Henrik Engström

Henrik has worked as a professional software developer since 1998. During these years his main focus has been on highly transactional systems within the finance, retail and e-gambling industries. He is currently based in Sweden and works in the Akka team at Typesafe.

13.00-13.50

Unlock your Inner Node.js in the Cloud with Windows Azure

If I told you that you can build node.js applications in Windows Azure would you believe me? Come to this session and I’ll show you how. You’ll see how take those existing node apps and easily deploy them to Windows Azure from any platform, how you can make yours node apps more robust by leveraging Azure services like storage and service bus and how to take advantage of cool tools like socket.io for WebSockets, node-inspector for debugging and Cloud9 for an awesome online development experience.

Tags: Back end Cloud Javascript Web

Unlock your Inner Node.js in the Cloud with Windows AzureGlenn Block

Glenn is a PM at Microsoft working on support for node.js in Windows and Azure. Glenn has a breadth of experience both both inside and outside Microsoft developing software solutions for ISVs and the enterprise. Glenn has been a passionate supporter of open source and has been active in involving folks from the community in the development of software at Microsoft. This has included shipping products under open source licenses, as well as assisting other teams looking to do so. Glenn is also a lover of community and a frequent speaker at local and international events and user groups. Glenn's blog can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/gblock or you can follow him on twitter at you own risk at twitter.com/gblock

Thursday

10.00-10.50

Micro-Service Architecture

The service architecture of the new millenium has evolved at the Forward Internet Group into a myriad of small, loosely coupled services. While the system is several years old, almost no service is older than six months. We explore the evolution of this architecture and its impact on the organization and processes.

Tags: Architecture Back end Creative Hard Core

Micro-Service ArchitectureFred George

Fred George has been writing code for over 44 years in (by his count) over 70 languages. An early adopter of OO and Agile, Fred continues to impact the industry with his leading-edge ideas. Passionately practical, Fred has spent the last few decades delivering projects for clients worldwide (US, India, China, UK). Oh, and he still writes code!

10.00-10.50

Modern enterprise application configuration with Spring

The Spring family projects have long been important tools in the enterprise Java developer's toolkit. Often though, Spring is characterized as being too dependent on XML. This session will take a deep look at how Java applications can be configured entirely in code, eliminating Spring-, JPA- and even Servlet-related XML. We'll also look beyond the core Spring Framework and explore how higher-level Spring projects like Spring Data and Spring Integration take advantage of code based configuration.

Tags: Back end Java

Modern enterprise application configuration with SpringChris Beams

Chris Beams is a senior technical staff member at VMware and a core Spring Framework committer. His work in enterprise application development began in 1998 and has covered a wide range of technologies, languages and frameworks. Prior to becoming a full-time Spring committer, Chris trained hundreds of students on the topics of enterprise architecture and how best to use the Spring family of projects. He is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world and is @cbeams at Twitter and GitHub.

11.10-12.00

Automated Testing Strategies for Databases

Almost all significant applications involve some sort of database. Many challenges come up when automating tests of data-intensive applications, including test repeatability, performance, transactional integrity and parallel test execution. This session will present solutions to these problems along with concrete implementations. Participants will be expected to have a working knowledge of relational databases and an understanding of the principles of database programming and test automation.

Tags: Back end Hard Core Test

Automated Testing Strategies for DatabasesStephen Vance

Stephen Vance has been a technology developer, consultant and manager for the last two decades. As a manager, he has promoted Agile practices since before the "Agile" label was invented. As a consultant, Stephen advised companies from startups to US Fortune 100 in North America, Europe and China. He is currently a hands-on Engineering Manager at Cengage Learning and is writing a book on software testing techniques for Addison-Wesley.

18.00-18.50

Developing polyglot applications on Cloud Foundry

Modern applications are developed using multiple technologies: HTML5, NodeJS, SQL and NoSQL databases. Development is challenging since there are so many moving parts. In this talk, you will learn why we need to build applications this way and how Cloud Foundry, which is an modern, open-source PaaS, can help.

Tags: Back end Cloud Dev Ops

Developing polyglot applications on Cloud FoundryChris Richardson

Chris Richardson is a developer and architect with over 20 years of experience. He is a Java Champion and the author of POJOs in Action, which describes how to build enterprise Java applications with POJOs and frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. Chris is the founder of the original CloudFoundry.com and now spends his time investigating better ways to develop applications and evangelizing Cloud Foundry. He has a computer science degree from the University of Cambridge in England and lives in Oakland, CA with his wife and three children.

Friday

10.00-10.50

How RESTful Is Your REST?

The rise of Mobile and the diversity its technologies make exposing a RESTfull API the most crucial capability of any application and the key to its success. In the absence of widely adopted best practices and well-defined conventions, designing such an API is nothing but trivial. This presentation introduces the fundamentals of REST architecture, and discusses the principles of RESTfull design.

Tags: Architecture Back end Java

How RESTful Is Your REST?Abdelmonaim Remani

A software developer and technology enthusiast at heart and by profession. Particularly interested in technology evangelism and enterprise software development and architecture. Experienced in Java Enterprise Applications and a wide range of related technologies. President and Founder of a number of organizations namely The NorCal Java User Group, The Silicon Valley Dart Meetup, and The Silicon Valley Spring User Group. Abdel is a frequent speaker at a number of developer conferences including JavaOne, JAX Conf, and OsCon, and many user groups and community events.

10.00-10.50

Go: a simple programming environment

Go is a general-purpose language that bridges the gap between efficient statically typed languages and productive dynamic language. But it’s not just the language that makes Go special – Go has broad and consistent standard libraries and powerful but simple tools.

This talk gives an introduction to Go, followed by a tour of some real programs that demonstrate the power, scope, and simplicity of the Go programming environment.

Tags: Back end Emerging languages Hands on Web

Go: a simple programming environmentAndrew Gerrand

Andrew Gerrand works on the Go Programming Language at Google Sydney. He has written dozens of articles about Go, and given many talks and workshops at conferences around the world. He is the co-author of A Tour of Go (http://tour.golang.org/), and is the fourth most prolific contributor to the Go project. He is passionate about software quality, and believes Go is a unique tool for building reliable software at scale. Before Google, Andrew wrote software for startups and Internet providers.

10.00-10.50

The power of node

Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

This talk introduces node.js by exploring practical examples of suitable use cases.

Expect lots of code, demos, and a clear analysis on the strengths and weaknesses of node.js as a plattform.

Tags: Architecture Back end Javascript Rebel

The power of nodeFelix Geisendörfer

Felix Geisendörfer is a node.js core developer and has experienced it’s strength and shortcomings first-hand while building transloadit.com. When not event-looping, he loves going street unicycling and watching squirrels.

11.10-12.00

Go: code that grows with grace

One of Go's key design goals is code adaptability; that it should be easy to take a simple design and build upon it in a clean and natural way. In this talk I describe a simple "chat roulette" server that matches pairs of incoming TCP connections, and then use Go's concurrency mechanisms, interfaces, and standard library to extend it with a web interface and other features. While the function of the program changes dramatically, Go's flexibility preserves the original design as it grows.

Tags: Back end Emerging languages Hands on Web

Go: code that grows with graceAndrew Gerrand

Andrew Gerrand works on the Go Programming Language at Google Sydney. He has written dozens of articles about Go, and given many talks and workshops at conferences around the world. He is the co-author of A Tour of Go (http://tour.golang.org/), and is the fourth most prolific contributor to the Go project. He is passionate about software quality, and believes Go is a unique tool for building reliable software at scale. Before Google, Andrew wrote software for startups and Internet providers.

13.00-13.50

A practical overview of Java EE 6

In this session you will see the programming model introduced with Java EE 6. We will give plenty of code examples; the talk is about giving the attendee an impression of the APIs in Java EE 6, and how those APIs are used together. We will show CDI (dependency injection), JPA, JAX-RS, EJB and JSF. Come to see this talk if you didn't work with Java EE 6 yet, and want to know what's new.

Tags: Back end Hands on Java

A practical overview of Java EE 6Paul Bakker

Paul Bakker is an architect for Luminis Technologies. Paul is contributor on several open source projects; for the past year most notably JBoss Forge. He also works on Amdatu, Apache ACE and has contributed to BndTools and several other JBoss projects. He has a background as trainer where he was teaching Java related courses and is still a regular conference speaker on conferences such as Devoxx, JavaOne, JFokus, JBoss World, JUDCon and JFall.

14.10-15.00

REST assured - Hypermedia APIs with Spring MVC

Spring MVC forms a solid foundation to implement REST based web-services in Java. However, in real-world projects developers still face challenges when it comes to advanced questions of REST. How to really leverage hypermedia? How to model more complex business functionality with REST. The talk discusses approaches to these chellanges developed during customer engagemants and introduces the Spring HATEOAS library.

Tags: Back end Java Web

REST assured - Hypermedia APIs with Spring MVCOliver Gierke

Oliver Gierke is engineer at SpringSource, a division of VMware, project lead of the Spring Data JPA, MongoDB and core module and member of the JPA 2.1 expert group. He has been into developing enterprise applications and open source projects for over 6 years now. His working focus is centered around software architecture, Spring and persistence technologies. He is regularly speaking at German and international conferences as well as author of technology articles.

15.20-16.10

Building a grammar for statistical graphics in Clojure

Our data is typically optimized for use by computers; what would it be like if we optimized for humans? This talk introduces a grammar of graphics for concisely expressing rich data visualizations. The grammar, implemented in Clojure, consists of simple data structures and can be used across the JVM and via JSON. This talk will cover principles of effective data visualization and the benefits of using data structures as an "API". There will be lots of pictures and a touch of code.

Tags: Architecture Back end Front end Tools

Building a grammar for statistical graphics in ClojureKevin Lynagh

Kevin visualizes data and makes statistical interfaces on the web. He has written enough JavaScript to be terribly excited about ClojureScript. Before Clojure he wrote machine learning and analytics tools in R and Scala. In 2010 he wrote a thesis on protein structure, for which Reed College inexplicably awarded him a physics degree. Kevin lives in Portland, Oregon, and spends as much time rock climbing as he does in the REPL.

15.20-16.10

HTTP Caching 101

Caching is one of the most powerful feature of HTTP and ReSTful architecture, and also one of the most misunderstood. This session will review what can be done with HTTP, debunk a few myths and show some commonly-implemented patterns you can implement in your own clients.

Tags: Architecture Back end Front end Hard Core Mastery Web .NET

HTTP Caching 101Sebastien Lambla

Sebastien Lambla runs Caffeine IT, a .net consultancy / contracting company helping the good people of London adopt new technologies, new processes, new methodologies and in general anything that's new and shiny. Specializing in cutting-edge tools, from REST architectures to occasionally connected rich clients, Sebastien has been developing with .net since 2000, and has a secret love affair with javascript. In his spare time he’s working on OpenRasta, a resource-oriented MVC framework for .NET.