Christopher Judd
CTO of Manifest Solutions
Christopher Judd is CTO and partner at Manifest Solutions (http://www.manifestcorp.com), an international speaker, Java Champion, an open source evangelist, and the Central Ohio Java Users Group (http://www.cojug.org) leader. He is an accomplished writer having co-authored Beginning Groovy and Grails (Apress, 2008), Enterprise Java Development on a Budget (Apress, 2003) and Pro Eclipse JST (Apress, 2005) as well as the author of the children’s book “Bearable Moments”. Based in Columbus Ohio, he has spent over 20 years architecting and developing software for organizations ranging from Fortune 50 companies to start-ups across various industries including insurance, health care, education, retail, government, manufacturing, service, and transportation. Mr. Judd spends most of his time consulting while continuing to focus on mentoring and training in Java, mobile and related technologies.Presentations
Enterprise Observability with Trace Context & OpenTelemetry
5:00 PM MDT
Enterprise applications are complex. A transaction starting in the browser will go through proxies, api gateways, security appliances, application performance monitoring tools, logs, microservices and more microservices. Historically there has been no standard way to get observability and traceability between all the enterprise components. Each product and framework has it's own proprietary way of identifying a transaction making it difficult if not impossible to stitch together a complete picture of a transaction. This is changing with the introduction of the W3C Trace Context standard and the open source initiative of OpenTelemetry.
In this session, you will learn how using Trace Context, OpenTelemetry and other open source and commercial products can improve your observability to help you better triage production issues, improve performance, be proactive and make your users happier.
Hacking and Hardening Java Web APIs Workshop
9:00 AM MDT
According to Akamai, more than 80% of internet traffic is now web API calls and makes up 90% of a web application’s attack surface. With such a critical and vulnerable piece of your architecture, do you know your APIs are secure? Do you know how and if attackers are attempting to exploit your APIs?
This hands-on workshop teaches you how to identify and fix vulnerabilities in Java web APIs. Using an existing API, you will learn ways to scan and test for common vulnerabilities such as excessive data exposure, broken authentication & authorization, lack of resource & rate limiting, and more. You will learn best practices around logging, intrusion detection, rate limiting, authentication, and authorization. You will also learn how to improve security in your APIs using existing tools, libraries, frameworks, and techniques to prevent vulnerabilities.
Hacking and Hardening Java Web APIs Workshop
11:00 AM MDT
According to Akamai, more than 80% of internet traffic is now web API calls and makes up 90% of a web application’s attack surface. With such a critical and vulnerable piece of your architecture, do you know your APIs are secure? Do you know how and if attackers are attempting to exploit your APIs?
This hands-on workshop teaches you how to identify and fix vulnerabilities in Java web APIs. Using an existing API, you will learn ways to scan and test for common vulnerabilities such as excessive data exposure, broken authentication & authorization, lack of resource & rate limiting, and more. You will learn best practices around logging, intrusion detection, rate limiting, authentication, and authorization. You will also learn how to improve security in your APIs using existing tools, libraries, frameworks, and techniques to prevent vulnerabilities.
Maximize Your Leadership Through Personal Growth
5:00 PM MDT
It’s impossible to follow a leader who isn’t moving forward. They wouldn’t be a leader; they would be a stander or an observer. So, if you aren’t personally growing and improving, why do you think anybody wants to follow YOU? Personal growth is one of the most critical characteristics of being a leader others desire to follow. So how can you develop a growth mindset? What areas should you focus on growing in? What habits can develop to help you continuously grow daily?
In this session, we will focus on proven, effective, and actionable tactics, resources, and tools to elevate your leadership now.