James Ward
Developer Advocate for AWS
Professional software developer since 1997, with much of that time spent helping developers build software that doesn't suck. A Typed Pure Functional Programming zealot who often compromises on his ideals to just get stuff done. Currently a Developer Advocate for AWS and AAIF Technical Committee member.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.
Books
Effect Oriented Programming
by James Ward, Bruce Eckel, Bill Frasure
Effects are the unpredictable elements in your programs.Concerns like network communication or user interaction might seem easy, but they are devilishly difficult to get right. The pristine world of algorithms devolves into the gory reality of failures and inconsistency.
Traditionally, we've coped with Effects incompletely and often unwittingly. Programs have been difficult to build, adapt, and maintain.
Discover a groundbreaking approach to software development using Effect Systems to control the unpredictable elements in your systems. We focus on practical techniques you can apply immediately, making complex concepts accessible to all developers. You'll learn resilient system development in a straightforward, pragmatic way, using simplified code examples and clear explanatory prose.