Conference Talks

GDC

Flopping Successfully - Running a Studio Without a Huge Hit

A decade of running an indie game studio without a breakout hit offers a counterpoint to success stories built around blockbuster outcomes.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

GOTO Conferences

Next-Generation Cloud Native Apps with Spring Boot 3

See how Spring Boot 3’s Java 17 baseline, native images, persistence, and built-in observability shape modern cloud native Java applications.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

GOTO Conferences

Engineering for Software

Explores how testability and speed can serve as tools to amplify creativity in software engineering.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Devoxx

Automating Resilience Testing with Docker and Property Based Testing

Use Docker and property-based testing to automate resilience checks for service failures and unexpected interactions.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Devoxx

The Reactive Landscape

A live-coded map of the reactive landscape explains how reactive programming, streams, systems, and asynchronous techniques relate.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Devoxx

A Pragmatist’s Guide to Functional Geekery

A practical JVM-based demonstration of how pattern matching, algebraic data types, type classes, and folding can address real programming problems.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Devoxx

The End of Polling - Why and How to Transform a REST API into a Data Streaming API

Learn how to turn static REST APIs into real-time data streams, comparing polling, webhooks, WebSockets, and Server-Sent Events, with JSON Patch and streamed drone control.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Devoxx

Rethinking Microservices with Stateful Streams

Explains how stateful stream processing can balance data accessibility and service encapsulation when designing scalable, event-driven microservices.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Devoxx

Using Java 8 Lambdas and StampedLock to Manage Thread Safety

See how StampedLock idioms and Java lambdas protect multi-field object invariants, alongside lock-free approaches using atomic references and low-level Java APIs.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Devoxx

How Modern SQL Databases Come Up With Algorithms That You Would Have Never Dreamed Of

See how SQL’s declarative queries let modern databases devise efficient algorithms for tasks developers might otherwise implement by hand.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Devoxx

Migrating to Modules

A live migration of a Java 8 application and popular libraries into Java 9 modules, including a path forward when dependencies remain unmodularized.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Devoxx

G ∘ F Patterns

Rework familiar GoF behavioral patterns as higher-order functions using Java 8 lambdas, with live coding examples that replace object-oriented scaffolding.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Devoxx

From Tic Tac Toe to AlphaGo - Playing Games with AI and Machine Learning

Trace how search, pruning, Monte Carlo tree search, and neural networks helped AlphaGo tackle Go’s vast decision space.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Devoxx

Geek's Guide to Leading Teams

Practical guidance for developer-promoted tech leads on balancing technical judgment with the people work of building effective software teams.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Devoxx

Modules in One Lesson

Live coding builds and modifies a Java 9 modular application to explore Project Jigsaw’s module system and its effects on configuration and encapsulation.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk