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
A Tour of the Modern Java Platform
3:15 PM MDT
The Java Platform has seen a tremendous amount of evolution and improvements over the past 5 years in many different areas including: language features in Java, Kotlin, and Scala, Functional Programming, dev environments, test workflows, Reactive, Stream processing, distributed data, containerization, Serverless, and AoT compilation.
This talk will give you a tour of the most important improvements, why they matter, and how to take advantage of them.
Architectural Patterns for Distributed and Decentralized Data
5:00 PM MDT
Over the past few years architectural patterns for distributed data have gained more importance and adoption. At the same time similar patterns have emerged for decentralized data. You will learn how CQRS and CRDTs are used in trusted and untrusted environments to overcome the challenges of eventual consistency, data privacy, and global scalability.
Through code examples you will learn how to use these patterns and will see how they are applied through higher-level abstractions like GraphQL, Cloudstate, and even Blockchain.
Building and Deploying Cloud Native Applications with gRPC Kotlin & Kubernetes
9:00 AM MDT
In this hands-on workshop you will learn how to take a Cloud Native Application from inception to production. Starting with a base sample application we will learn how to break the application into separate services that communicate via gRPC Kotlin. We will then learn how to containerize and deploy the application to Kubernetes. Along the way we will learn how to address some of the major challenges of deploying applications to Kubernetes, such as scaling and service discovery.
Some of the topics to be covered include:
Service communication using gRPC, a fast and efficient binary protocol
Creating Kubernetes Deployment Files
Deploying, Managing and Scaling services using Kubernetes
Using Kubernetes Service Discovery with gRPC
Building and Deploying Cloud Native Applications with gRPC Kotlin & Kubernetes
11:00 AM MDT
In this hands-on workshop you will learn how to take a Cloud Native Application from inception to production. Starting with a base sample application we will learn how to break the application into separate services that communicate via gRPC Kotlin. We will then learn how to containerize and deploy the application to Kubernetes. Along the way we will learn how to address some of the major challenges of deploying applications to Kubernetes, such as scaling and service discovery.
Some of the topics to be covered include:
Service communication using gRPC, a fast and efficient binary protocol
Creating Kubernetes Deployment Files
Deploying, Managing and Scaling services using Kubernetes
Using Kubernetes Service Discovery with gRPC