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 […]
Building Continuous Delivery: Rock-solid builds with Gradle
Continuous delivery is the very first principle behind the Agile Manifesto, and yet it continues to plague software development teams. In this talk, David Norton will give a brief overview of continuous delivery practices and […]
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 […]
Source To Deployment: Utilizing Gradle & Docker to automate your application from end to end
Gradle is a build automation system that manage the tasks needed to build, test, and deploy your code in an incremental fashion. Docker is a application packing tool that utilizes proven technologies to create lightweight, […]
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 […]