James Ward
Developer Advocate for GCP
James Ward is a software developer who shares what he learns with others through presentations, blogs, demos, and code. After over two decades of professional programming, he is now a self-proclaimed Typed Pure Functional Programming zealot but often compromises on his ideals to just get stuff done. After spending too many sleepless nights in data centers repairing RAID arrays, he now prefers higher-level cloud abstractions with appropriate escape hatches. James is a huge Open Source proponent, hoping to never get burned by lock-in again.Presentations
Practicing Continuous Delivery on the Cloud
1:30 PM MDT
This session will teach you best practices and patterns for doing Continuous Delivery / Continuous Deployment in Cloud environments. You will learn how to handle schema migrations, maintain dev/prod parity, manage configuration and scaling.
This session will use Heroku as an example platform but the patterns could be implemented anywhere.
Play vs. Grails Smackdown
5:00 PM MDT
In this session, Matt and James will develop two apps that do the same thing. One will be written in Grails and one will be written in Play. We'll deploying them to Heroku and hammer them to see how they both perform under load. Afterward, we'll compare performance, lines of code, etc.
Who will be declared the winner?!
Who will be declared the winner?!
Running Java, Play! & Scala Apps on the Cloud Workshop
3:15 PM MDT
Heroku is a Polyglot Cloud Application Platform that makes it easy to deploy Java, Play! and Scala apps on the cloud. Deployment is as simple as doing a “git push”.
This session will teach you how to instantly deploy and scale Java, Play! and Scala apps on Heroku.