Live Webinar April 28th, 2015 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 4 Hour Credits: Up to 4 Category C Free PDUs
Presented by : O’Reilly

Whether building a new architecture or fine-tuning and optimizing your current code base these speakers have insight to how to ease your troubles and help you excel!

From tweaking your Python unicode to optimizing your Java for performance,  O’Reilly will take you from line of code to the big picture with an introduction to microservices and making larger business choices with David McKinley’s session on Choose Boring Technology.

Optimizing Java Performance With HotSpot

Write Clean Code “Just-In-Time” and Worry Less As a Developer

HotSpot promises to do wonders for Java developers by identifying hot code and optimizing it “just-in-time.” For the most part, HotSpot stays true to its promises. However, it’s easier to trust this adaptive performance engine once you understand precisely how the magic works.

Douglas Hawkins will help Java developers of all levels better understand what this virtual machine can and cannot do for them.

By the end of this talk, developers will be able to use HotSpot to focus on solving critical performance issues with their code. They will also walk away with practical strategies they can use to implement a more efficient and productive development environment.

Unicode Solutions In Python 2 & 3

This webcast presentation tackles head-on the most common problems when dealing with Unicode data or any text data that is not limited to ASCII.

Each example is presented first with Python 3 code — which is easier to understand — and then with Python 2.7, the version used in most current projects.

Luciano Ramalho will cover:

• Understanding character encodings and the encode/decode methods;
• Diagnosing and fixing encoding errors raised by Python;
• Handling text files and standard I/O in GNU/Linux, OSX and Windows;
• Safe comparisons and pattern matching with Unicode;
• Proper sorting of Unicode data

Microservices & You – The Straight Dope

You have started to hear about microservices and you want to learn more about what happens when the rubber meets the road.

In this talk Steve Pousty will cover the process he went through in constructing, a multi-device application for gamified recording of roadkill.

He will briefly cover how he went about the process paying particular attention on how to get started, understanding what microservices ACTUALLY needs. He will show you how you too can be a microservices practitioner.

His session will be an informal talk and interactive.  There will be a back and forth discussion of some of your implementation questions.

Come in curious, leave with some solid ideas on how to get started on your first microservice architected application.

Choose Boring Technology

How do you choose the technology to run your business?

The prevailing advice du jour is something like: “use the best tool for the job.” This is obviously right, but it is also devoid of meaning in an unfortunate way that lets people define the words “best” and “job” as myopically as they like.

Dan aims to give shape to these nebulous terms. Your job is to keep your company in business. The best tools tend to be the ones that solve the widest array of problems while requiring the least amount of operational overhead.

If innovation happens when preparation meets opportunity, Dan McKinley suggests that opportunity rarely appears in the form of an unforeseen data loss bug.

Of course,  technology is sometimes necessary.

It’s true that shiny new technologies can be useful, and it’s true that a mix of technology is healthy. But the world is beset by polyglot programmers and microservice proponents.

A framework for thinking about these issues systematically is necessary. That process must consider the organization as a whole, and it must reintroduce constraints that have gone to seed in the era of cloud infrastructure.

Choose boring technology.
If you can get past this, you can be exciting in ways you can’t imagine.

Presenters:

Douglas Q. Hawkins (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio, @dougqh) is a VM Engineer at Azul Systems. He has been passionately developing software for over 10 years, and has created applications for a variety of industries including bioinformatics, finance, and online retail. However, his true interest has always been exploring what happens inside the virtual machines developers use on a daily basis. He is also a regular speaker on the No Fluff Just Stuff conference tour.

Luciano Ramalho  (LinkedIn profile, O’Reilly bio, @ramalhoorg)  author of Fluent Python was a Web developer before the Netscape IPO in 1995, and switched from Perl to Java to Python in 1998. Since then he worked on some of the largest news portals in Brazil using Python, and taught Python web development in the Brazilian media, banking and government sectors. His speaking credentials include PyCon US (2013), OSCON (2002, 2013, 2014), and many talks over the years at PythonBrasil (the Brazilian PyCon) FISL (the largest FLOSS conference in the Southern Hemisphere) and RuPy. Ramalho is a member of the Python Software Foundation and co-founder of Garoa Hacker Clube, the first hackerspace in Brazil. He is co-owner of Python.pro.br, a training company.

Steve Pousty Phd (LinkedIn profile, O’Reilly bio, @TheSteve0), Partner, author of Getting Started with OpenShift and PaaS Dust Spreader (developer evangelist) with OpenShift. Steve shows off all the great work the OpenShift engineers and can teach you about PaaS with Java, Python, PostgreSQL MongoDB, and JavaScript. With deep subject area expertise in GIS/Spatial, Statistics, and Ecology he has spoken at over 50 conferences and done over 30 workshops including Monktoberfest, MongoNY, JavaOne, FOSS4G, CTIA, AjaxWorld, GeoWeb, Where2.0, and OSCON. Before OpenShift, Steve was a developer evangelist for LinkedIn, deCarta, and ESRI.

Dan McKinley (LinkedIn profile) After starting his career in finance, Dan McKinley freaked out and moved to Brooklyn. He stumbled into a fledgling Etsy.com in 2007, and spent his first years there trying to stop overwhelming traffic from reducing the site to its constituent elements. In the long summer that followed he worked on activity feeds, search, recommendations, experimentation, and analytics. Dan currently works for Stripe from Los Angeles, California.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality
• 9.4 Manage Project Team

As a Category C, ‘Self Directed Learning’, activity remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder.’

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After starting his career in finance, Dan McKinley freaked out and moved to Brooklyn. He stumbled into a fledgling Etsy.com in 2007, and spent his first years there trying to stop overwhelming traffic from reducing the site to its constituent elements. In the long summer that followed he worked on activity feeds, search, recommendations, experimentation, and analytics.

Dan currently works for Stripe from Los Angeles, California.