Tim Berglund
VP Developer Relations at Confluent
Tim is a teacher, author, and technology leader with Confluent, where he serves as the Vice President of Developer Relations. He is a regular speaker at conferences and a presence on YouTube explaining complex technology topics in an accessible way. He tweets as @tlberglund, blogs every few years at http://timberglund.com. He has three grown children and two grandchildren, a fact about which he is rather excited.Presentations
Discrete Math You Need to Know
8:30 PM MDT
What do you need to know about combinatorics, number theory, and the underpinnings of public key cryptography? Well, maybe more than you think!
In this talk, we'll explore the branch of mathematics that deals with separate, countable things. Most of the math we learn in school deals with real-valued quantities like mass, length, and time. However, much of the work of the software developer deals with counting, combinations, numbers, graphs, and logical statements: the purview of discrete mathematics. Join us for this brief exploration of an often-overlooked but eminently practical area of mathematics.
Gradle Jumpstart (Bring a Laptop)
1:30 PM MDT
Gradle is a compelling new build tool that incorporates the lessons learned from a decade of Ant and Maven. More than just a compromise between declarative and imperative build formats, or between convention and configuration, Gradle is a sophisticated software development platform that simple builds easy and complex, highly automated continuous software delivery pipelines possible to build. Using its extensible APIs and expressive DSL, you're equipped to build your next build.
Bring your laptop to this session for the following:
- Build a Java project
- Resolve transitive dependencies
- Run unit tests
- Build a Groovy project
- Create multi-project, polyglot builds
- Wrap your build with a repeatable version of Gradle
- Extend Gradle with custom tasks
- See the plugin architecture
Gradle Jumpstart (Bring a Laptop)
3:15 PM MDT
Gradle is a compelling new build tool that incorporates the lessons learned from a decade of Ant and Maven. More than just a compromise between declarative and imperative build formats, or between convention and configuration, Gradle is a sophisticated software development platform that simple builds easy and complex, highly automated continuous software delivery pipelines possible to build. Using its extensible APIs and expressive DSL, you're equipped to build your next build.
Bring your laptop to this session for the following:
- Build a Java project
- Resolve transitive dependencies
- Run unit tests
- Build a Groovy project
- Create multi-project, polyglot builds
- Wrap your build with a repeatable version of Gradle
- Extend Gradle with custom tasks
- See the plugin architecture
The Data Structures [You Think You] Need to Know
5:00 PM MDT
If you're like most developers, you can get through most of your projects with just lists and maps. Then every once in a while you read a blog post about a mind-blowing problems that can only be solved efficiently because of a data structure you've never heard of, and you wonder where long years of computer science education really got you. Or better yet, maybe you never
The world is full of interesting data structures like Merkel Trees, Bloom Filters, k-d Trees, Ropes, Tries, and just plain old heaps and graphs. Come to this talk for a fun walk through the composition, purpose, and implementation of a few of the data structures you think you need to know–and might actually be able to use!
Cassandra Workshop
9:00 AM MDT
What do you do when your data is not only big, but also needs to be fast? Apache Cassandra is a scalable, fault-tolerant database that has found its way into more than 25% of the Fortune 100 and continues to enjoy significant adoption in the marketplace.
In this workshop, we’ll explore Cassandra’s internals, its flexible data model, its SQL-like query language, some deployment scenarios, and some common language bindings. You’ll leave ready to begin exploring Cassandra on your own.
Cassandra Workshop
10:45 AM MDT
What do you do when your data is not only big, but also needs to be fast? Apache Cassandra is a scalable, fault-tolerant database that has found its way into more than 25% of the Fortune 100 and continues to enjoy significant adoption in the marketplace.
In this workshop, we’ll explore Cassandra’s internals, its flexible data model, its SQL-like query language, some deployment scenarios, and some common language bindings. You’ll leave ready to begin exploring Cassandra on your own.
Books
Building and Testing with Gradle
by Tim Berglund and Matthew McCullough
Build and test software written in Java and many other languages with Gradle, the open source project automation tool that’s getting a lot of attention. This concise introduction provides numerous code examples to help you explore Gradle, both as a build tool and as a complete solution for automating the compilation, test, and release process of simple and enterprise-level applications.
Discover how Gradle improves on the best ideas of Ant, Maven, and other build tools, with standards for developers who want them and lots of flexibility for those who prefer less structure.
- Use Gradle with Groovy, Clojure, Scala, and languages beyond the JVM, such as Flex and C
- Get started building a simple Java program using Gradle's command line tooling and a small build script
- Learn how to configure and construct tasks, Gradle's fundamental unit of build activity
- Take advantage of Gradle's integration with Ant
- Use Gradle to integrate with or transition from Maven, and to build software more cleanly
- Perform application unit and integration tests using JUnit, TestNG, Spock, and Geb