Migrating from Cordova to React Native

Cordova and React Native are JavaScript based frameworks for building cross-platform mobile apps. They differ greatly in their approach, with Cordova being embedded web view centric, and React Native being native centric. React Native is […]

Building Scalable IoT Applications with AWS IoT

With the explosion of IoT devices across the world, handling communication with those devices in a secure, scalable and globally distributed manner is becoming increasingly important. Protocols such as MQTT offer a means for communicating […]

Simplifying Distributed Systems Using Apache Kafka

With the rising popularity of micro service architectures and typical scaling patterns used at enterprises, distributed systems are becoming more common and complex. What was once a simple web server connected to a database now […]

Rest Services with Node, Mongo, & Express

Demonstrating how easy it can be to build our RESTful webservices with Node, I will live code a full CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) REST service with NodeJS. We will utilize MongoDB as our […]

5 Advantages of Test Driven Development

You may have heard of test driven development, but don’t know why it’s useful? After all, writing tests before production code sounds very odd. Come learn about five advantages of using TDD in your daily […]

Getting MEAN – Intro to the MEAN stack

The MEAN (Mongo, Express, Angular, Node) stack provides a lightweight, all JavaScript, full stack for developing web applications. This talk will feature an introduction to MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js. These technologies will be combined […]

Creating RESTful Applications with Grails

More and more, companies and organizations are using RESTful APIs to provide access to their data and services, including Twitter, LinkedIn, JIRA, and Salesforce.com. REST provides a useful abstraction and helps simplify the creation of […]

Spring Boot: Power + Productivity

There’s a lot of hype these days around microservices and distributed architectures (and for good reason!). Unfortunately, the “traditional” Spring Framework was not a great candidate for this craze; mountains of configuration and boilerplate got […]