Productivity

Developer Productivity Engineering for Open-Source Communities (sponsored by Gradle)

Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE) is a fast-emerging software development practice that leading software development companies like Netflix, Airbnb, and LinkedIn and open-source communities like Apache, Spring, and Micronaut have already adopted. DPE enhances developer productivity via tooling that surfaces deep, actionable insights into the developer toolchain and provides cumulative acceleration technologies that enable significantly faster feedback cycles.

Experience level:

Beginner

Tools & IDEs

Combating the struggles of modern cloud-native java developers

Grace Jansen (IBM)

Moving our applications to the cloud has offered useful innovations and advantageous characteristics, including flexibility, dynamic scaling, and increased resiliency. However… it’s not all been sunshine and roses. Moving to the cloud can be hard and frustrating! As developers, we’re now dealing with an ever-changing and ever more complex landscape with new tools, technologies, and features to skill up on almost every week!

Experience level:

Beginner

Tools & IDEs

Towards more productive development workflows

Sebastian Daschner (IBM)

We developers love writing code, discussing and constructing perfect solutions. However, we very much dislike manual, repetitive tasks, and especially waiting for slow executions such as re-compilations, builds, and slow tests. Our daily coding work involves a lot of these tiny productivity blockers that make our work less enjoyable. What are the state-of-the-art techniques and tools that enable us to spend more time on the beautiful side of coding?

Experience level:

Beginner

Tools & IDEs

Make testing Enterprise Java more joyful

Sebastian Daschner (IBM)

Testing is still a topic that most developers would like to avoid. Even though it is crucial for working software, developing and maintaining tests takes certain time and effort — especially for distributed applications or when changes in existing functionality forces test scenarios to adapt. Omitting software tests can’t be the solution; therefore, how can we tackle enterprise tests in an effective and productive way?

Experience level:

Intermediate

Cloud Native Java (Sponsored by CNCF)

Mastering your Eclipse IDE - Java tooling, Tips & Tricks!

Noopur Gupta (IBM)

Eclipse IDE provides a lot of powerful features and capabilities. With so much functionality at disposal, many users don't use the full potential of the IDE. To be productive, mastering your IDE is as important as mastering your source code.

Experience level:

Beginner

Java & JDT