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An evening with Java Rockstar and Champion – Sebastian Daschner
We’re thrilled to welcome Sebastian Daschner to our meetup on Wednesday 8th August. As well as being the author of ‘Architecting Modern Java EE Applications’, Sebastian is an avid participator in the JCP, helping to form the future standards of Java EE, serving in the JAX-RS, JSON-P and Config Expert Groups and collaborating on various open source […]
Java Containers 101
It’s our final interview with our speakers ahead of the LJC Workshop day on 28th July. We spoke to Mofe Salami about what to expect from Java Containers 101… 1. Who do you think should come along? Anybody who is interested in running Java micro-services within containers 2. What do you think are the three […]
Hazelcast Essentials: In-Memory Data Grids Training
We’re getting more excited about our upcoming workshop day! We chatted to another of our speakers Neil Stevenson to find out what to expect from his Hazelcast workshop. 1. Who do you think should come along? Java developers looking to take their first steps in understanding in-memory data grids (IMDG). The course is suitable for […]
Authorisation Workshop: Concepts and Implementation with Omar Bashir
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and few minutes of cyber-incident to ruin it.” Stephane Nappo, Global Head of Information Security, SocGen . On 28th July we’re running our first ever LJC Workshop! We wanted to chat to a few of the speakers ahead of the big day. We’re starting off with Omar […]
The State of Kotlin and Ten Things To Do With GraalVM
Ahead of our upcoming Kotlin and GraalVM event, we were lucky enough to catch up with both of our guest speakers Zan Markan and Chris Seaton to find out what we can expect to learn. Zan is a Developer turned Evangelist at Pusher; he has over 8 years’ experience in software development. By day […]
Serverless Architecture in the Java Ecosystem & Serverless: The Missing Manual talk
On Tuesday 24th July, we’re delighted to bring you an evening focused on serverless. James Thomas, Lead Developer Advocate for Serverless at IBM Cloud, will lead a session focused on migrating from traditional applications to serverless cloud platforms. James spends his time speaking at conferences, writing blog posts or creating open-source code to share the […]
Spring Cloud, Docker & Kubernetes – Lessons Learned in the context of an OSS Project
On Tuesday 17th July, we’re hosting an evening focused on all things Kubernetes. This session is not an introduction to Kubernetes, quite the opposite, it will highlight why Kubernetes is great, but not a magic silver bullet that will solve all your problems – you need to be ready to make some hard choices. We’ll […]
Who Do You Want to Be? & The Software Developer’s Guide to Fun in the Workplace
Next week we’ve got a great event happening that we thought you’d find interesting. Joe Schmetzer (@tumbarumba) will provide advice and guidance about nudging your career to maximise your happiness and success. Then Dr Holly Cummins (@holly_cummins) will take an in-depth look at what makes software development a roller coaster – culminating in a series […]
What is Serverless and Why Should You Care & Securing Microservices: A Practical Guide
Hopefully you’re already signed up, but in case you’ve missed the invitation, on Thursday 21st June we’re running an evening of talks focused on Serverless and Microservices. In our first talk, Rafal Gancarz will be discussing ‘What is Serverless and why should you care’; our second speaker, Kate Stanley, will then present her talk ‘Securing […]
Towards a General Theory of Intelligence & What’s New for Java in the Cloud
On Thursday 14th June, we’re delighted to be hosting an evening of talks with IBM- Towards a General Theory of Intelligence & What’s New for Java in the Cloud. In our first talk, ‘Towards a General Theory of Intelligence’, Peter Morgan will take a look at the latest developments in AI research and implementation. In […]
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