Conferences

TL;DR It has been an awesome year full traveling (roughly 20 states), POCs for the clients and the prospects, training (including public classes) and conference talks. While I am already looking forward to 2016, here is a quick recap of my 2015 with Hazelcast. Table 1. Revisions history Version Date Comments v1.2 1/6/2015 Added Groovy Puzzlers Video link from SpringOne 2GX v1.1 12/31/2015 Added Atlanta JUG video link v1.0 12/29/2015 Initial blog post Into 2015 has been a helluva of a year for me, which started off with a new job: the Solutions Architect in Hazelcast - Open Source In-Memory Data Grid company. In addition to travelling to over 20 states, I had numerous opportunities to share my programming experience and how to develop and deploy the distributed systems. I enjoyed the conference talks, blog posts, and podcasts (1, 2, 3 in Russian). ...

TL;DR This April, I’m going to deliver half-day workshop «Ground-up Introduction To In-Memory Data» at Code PaLOUsa conference in Louisville, KY. You’re an architect or a developer with years of experience creating amazing applications. You’ve just been assigned to a gasp low latency project! Because you’re an expert, you’re expected to master a new In-Memory caching/data technology and be productive from day 1. You feel completely lost as you open the JAR files. Not only that, but you have to contend with new topologies and data stores like NoSQL or Hadoop. ...

New achievement unlocked - I’m going to deliver the talk at JavaOne 2013! This year I will be talking about very demanding and interesting topic for me - about integration Java and JavaScript. Here is quick abstract of my [BOF5793] session: "" There is a perception in the Java community that JavaScript is a second-rate interpreted language whose main purpose is to make Web pages a little prettier. But JavaScript is actually a powerful, flexible, dynamically typed language. And today the language has been experiencing a revival driven by the interest in HTML5. Nashorn is a modern JavaScript engine available on the JVM, and it’s already included with JDK8 builds. This presentation is about building polyglot applications with Java and JavaScript. "" ...

Here are the small notes from Adobe MAX conference: Flash is still here. Adobe creates tools for seamless transition b/w Flash and HTML5 (Adobe Edge) Touch apps is next big thing. Mobile apps developed with Flash/Flex/Air and packaged to native. Upcomming changes in Flash runtime- workers - actionScript threads Upcomming changes in AIR platform - native extensions Creative Cloud - another big thing was announced. Sharing and collaboration b/w creative suite applications and new touch app.