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Alex Antonov

Principal Engineer on the Technical Initiatives team at Orbitz Worldwide

Alex has joined Orbitz in 2004 and is responsible for providing technical leadership and guidance in the development of foundational technologies, core libraries and APIs for the enterprise-wide use, as well as establishing and maintaining common design principles and standards used within the company and integration of new software development practices within the development community.

Previously Alex was a Senior Engineer on the same team responsible for web application frameworks and developing common practices and additional functionality on top of Spring MVC & Webflow.

Alex is a graduate of Loyola University of Chicago, with a B.S. in Computer Science and M.S. in Computer Science specializing in Software Architecture. He currently resides in Evanston, IL and when not coding, Alex enjoys playing tennis, hiking, skiing, and traveling.

Presentations

Architectural Choices around Open Source Solutions

The audience will be presented with a number of open source technologies that would enable building different layers of a multi-tier system.

We would look at various choices of foundational technologies like Spring and Google Guice, explore various options for the Web application containers and MVC frameworks, caching and distributed data store (NoSQL) solutions and cover some aspects of application monitoring and deployment.

Application Configuration using REST & Protocol Buffers

The presentation will cover different types of application configuration, their lifecycle and management. The audience will learn about approaches on how to separate the configuration API from consumption and provisioning. The benefits that can be achieved from a well defined API providing ease of development, nice IDE support, type handling and true data objects, while maintaining the flexibility of being able to retrieve configuration from different sources and in different formats. They will learn about supporting different data stores, such as CouchDB, flat files, remote services and file repositories, as well as supporting different file formats like XML, JSON, Protobuf binary, etc.

The talk will cover some aspects of data modeling and design to best describe the configuration domain and support its ongoing evolution. A code demo will demonstrate an example of a system with a defined configuration data model represented via Protocol Buffers Model API, using multiple data providers consisting of data fetched from CouchDB, local files and remote RESTful services and being stored in multiple formats (JSON, XML, Protobuf binary).

Blogs

Programs and Technical Debt

Posted By: Johanna Rothman on May. 15, 2012

Once you have a program (a collection of interrelated projects focused on one business goal) and you have technical debt, you have a much bigger problem. Not just because the technical debt is likely bigger. Not just because you have more people

Graphs in the Cloud: Spring + Neo4j on Heroku

Posted By: James Ward on May. 14, 2012

Last week I hosted a webinar about running Java apps on Heroku that use the Spring Framework and the Neo4j graph database. Here is the recording of that webinar: In the webinar I began by deploying a copy of the Spring MVC + Hibernate template app fr

PhoneGap Starter Project - Productivity

Posted By: Terry Ryan on May. 14, 2012

A few weeks back Ryan Stewart posted on his idea for PhoneGap Starter projects. They were designed to take some of the grief out of getting started with various aspects of PhoneGap and PhoneGap Build projects. I've contributed a project based on one o

D2WC Next Week

Posted By: Terry Ryan on May. 9, 2012

Next week, I'll be speaking at D2WC, a designer/developer workflow conference in Kansas City, Missouri. I'll be talking about Using PhoneGap Build to simplify your mobile development life. One of the great things about PhoneGap is that it allows you t

Management Myth #3 and #4 Posted at Techwell

Posted By: Johanna Rothman on May. 9, 2012

I’ve been writing a series of management myths this year. I didn’t realize when myth #3 went live and #4 went live yesterday. Management Myth #3: We Must Treat Everyone the Same Way and Management Myth #4: I Don’t Need One-on-Ones are u

From now on, I’m calling it GroovyString

Posted By: Kenneth Kousen on May. 9, 2012

I’ve been doing a lot of introductory Groovy presentations lately, and an issue keeps coming up that I feel I have to address. I’ve had to think hard about how to do this, though, because I don’t want to be misunderstood. I’m prob

Why Does Management Care About Velocity?

Posted By: Johanna Rothman on May. 8, 2012

I’ve been talking to people whose management cares about their velocity. “My management wants us to double our velocity.” Or, “My management wants us to do more in a sprint

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Themes at ÜberConf

Architecture
Enterprise Java
Java Internals
Security - Enterprise & JVM
Cloud Computing
Languages on the JVM - Groovy, JRuby, Scala & Clojure
Java Web Frameworks - Wicket, Tapestry & SpringMVC
Build Systems - Maven & Gradle
Testing
Agility

Featured Speaker

Brian Sletten

Forward Leaning Software Engineer

Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on using and evangelizing forward-leaning technologies. He has a background as a system architect, a developer, a security consultant, a mentor, a team lead, an author and a trainer and operates in all of those roles as needed. His experience has spanned the online game, defense, finance, academic, hospitality, retail and commercial domains. He has worked with a wide variety of technologies such as network matrix switch controls, 3D simulation/visualization, Grid Computing, P2P and Semantic Web-based systems. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary. He is President of Bosatsu Consulting, Inc. and lives in Los..More » All Speakers »

Ken Sipe

Architect, Web Security Expert

Ken has been a practitioner and instructor of RUP since the late 1990s, and an extreme programmer and coach since the middle 2000s. Ken has worked with Fortune 500 companies to small startups in the roles of developer, designer, application architect and enterprise architect. Ken's current focus is on enterprise system automation and continuous delivery systems. Ken is an international speaker on the subject of software engineering speaking at conferences such as JavaOne, JavaZone, Jax-India, and The Strange Loop. He is a regular speaker with NFJS where he is best known for his architecture and security hacking talks. In 2009, Ken was honored by being awarded the JavaOne Rockstar Award at JavaOne in SF, C..More » All Speakers »

Matthew McCullough

Open Source Architect, Ambient Ideas

Matthew McCullough is an energetic 15 year veteran of enterprise software development, open source education, and co-founder of Ambient Ideas, LLC, a Denver consultancy. Matthew currently is a trainer for GitHub.com, author of the Git Master Class series for O'Reilly, speaker at over 30 national and international conferences, author of three of the top 10 DZone RefCards, and President of the Denver Open Source Users Group. His current topics of research center around project automation: build tools (Maven, Leiningen, Gradle), distributed version control (Git), Continuous Integration (Hudson) and Quality Metrics (Sonar). Matthew resides in Denver, Colorado with his beautiful wife and two young daughters, who are..More » All Speakers »

Mark Richards

SOA and Integration Architect, Author of Java Message Service

Mark Richards is an Independent Consultant working in the field as an Enterprise, Integration, and Application Architect, where he is involved in the architecture, design, and implementation of SOA, EDA, messaging, and other architectures, primarily in the Java platform. Previously, Mark was an Executive IT Architect with IBM, where he worked as an SOA and enterprise architect in the financial services area. He has been involved in the software industry since 1984 and has many battle scars to show for it. Mark served as the President of the Boston Java User Group in 1997 and 1998, and the President of the New England Java Users Group from 1999 thru 2003. Mark is the author of the book Java Message Service (2nd ..More » All Speakers »

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