Spring Framework 4 on Java 8

Spring has a track record of providing dedicated support for new Java generations in a timely fashion, and now it's right about time to go Java 8: With Spring Framework 4.0, we're providing in-depth support for all relevant OpenJDK 8 features, including lambda expressions, JSR-310 Date and Time, parameter name discovery, and java.util.concurrent enhancements.

This talk will illustrate basic Spring Framework 4.0 concepts, and selected Java 8 features within Spring's programming model, exploring the impact on application architectures.

Building For Speed - Tips and Tricks for Client-Side Performance

As the complexity of web and mobile apps increases, so does the importance of ensuring that your client-side resources load and execute in an optimal and efficient manner. Differences in resource loading techniques can have a dramatic impact on how fast an application feels to your users, and can be the catalyst for whether they have a joyful or frustrating experience. This talk will discuss performance techniques aimed at keeping your users on the joyful end of this user experience spectrum.

We'll take a look at: Pragmatic tools for measuring client-side performance Techniques for optimizing resources and their resulting impact Approaches to maximizing dev-time happiness and production performance Easy incorporation of these techniques into your everyday tool-chain.

In-memory data and compute on top of Hadoop

Hadoop gives us dramatic volume scalability at a cheap price. But core Hadoop is designed for sequential access - write once and read many times; making it impossible to use hadoop from a real-time/online application. Add a distributed in-memory tier in front and you could get the best of two worlds - very high speed, concurrency and the ability to scale to very large volume. We present the seamless integration of in-memory data grids with hadoop to achieve interesting new design patterns - ingesting raw or processed data into hadoop, random read-writes on operational data in memory or massive historical data in Hadoop with O(1) lookup times, zero ETL Map-reduce processing, enabling deep-scale SQL processing on data in Hadoop or the ability to easily output analytic models from hadoop into memory. We introduce and present the ideas and code samples through Pivotal in-memory real-time and the Hadoop platform.

Multi Environment Spring Applications

It'd be nice to assume everything remains the same from one environment to another, but the realities of today's deployment targets (clouds, app servers, etc.) make this difficult. An application may target one in-memory database in development and target a traditional database in production. A/B testing is a common practice that lets you incrementally expose potentially high risk features. Feature switches can be invaluable; should something go wrong, you can revert to a known state. All of these use cases, and more, can be handled using the Spring framework.

Join JavaOne Rock Star and Java Champion Kevin Nilson and Spring Developer Advocate Josh Long for a look at how you can run your application in differing environments using the Spring Framework.

Building Smart Clients with Spring

No application is an island and this is more obvious today than ever as applications extend their reach into people's pockets, desktops, tablets, TVs, Blu-ray players and cars. What's a modern developer to do to support these many platforms? In this talk, join Josh Long to learn how Spring can extend your reach through (sometimes Spring Security OAuth-secured) RESTful services exposed through Spring MVC, HTML5 and client-specific rendering thanks to Spring Mobile, and powerful, native support for Android with Spring Android.

Building 'Bootiful'­ Applications with Spring Boot

Spring Boot, the new convention-over-configuration centric framework from the Spring team at Pivotal, marries Spring's flexibility with conventional, common sense defaults to make application development not just fly, but pleasant!

Your Data, Your Search, Elasticsearch

Finding relevant information fast has always been a challenge, even more so in today's growing "oceans" of data. This talk explores the area of real-time full text search, using Elasticsearch, an open-source, distributed search engine built on top of Apache Lucene. The session will showcase how to perform real-time searches on structured and non-structured data alike, how to cope with types and suggestions, do social graph filters and aggregations for efficient analytics. All from a Spring perspective Last but not least, the presentation focuses on the Hadoop platform and how Map/Reduce, Hive, Pig or Cascading jobs can leverage a search engine to significantly speed up execution and enhance their capabilities.

The presentation covers architectural topics such as index scalability, data locality and partitioning, using off and on-premise storages (HDFS, S3, local file-systems) and multi-tenancy.

Application Security Pitfalls

Creating a secure application involves more then just applying Spring Security to it. This is of course not a new topic, but with the increased popularity of much more dynamic configurations for Servlet Containers and various Spring Projects, like Spring MVC and Spring Integration, it becomes more important to know about the Security tradeoffs we might get with that, and how to tackle them.



Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id-7C3WOKWw

Top 10 aspects to consider before buying a Laptop

There is a wonderful article in Economic Times explaining about top 10 aspects to consider before purchasing a laptop.

It explains about touch screen, storage, optical drives. It suggests to choose thinner, lighter and log battery life laptops. It gives multiple options to choose correct laptop which suits our needs.

Gothough the below link for more information:

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/hardware/planning-to-buy-a-laptop-here-are-10-aspects-to-consider/articleshow/33477790.cms

AOP-ing your JavaScript

Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) is a technique for augmenting the behavior of objects, methods, and functions non-invasively. AOP adds new behaviors and modifies existing behaviors "from the outside". Using AOP, it's possible to create connections between components without either having any knowledge of the other and without any extra library dependencies in your code.

While you may be familiar with AOP in Spring, you may not yet have applied it in JavaScript. In this talk, we'll do just that. We'll introduce simple techniques for applying AOP in pure JavaScript using no additional libraries, and then look at meld.js (https://github.com/cujojs/meld), the AOP library that powers Cujo.js (http://cujojs.com). We'll work from simple examples of making connections between components to more sophisticated examples that integrate pubsub, message buses, etc. in a truly loosely coupled way.




Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoZgJY2IF4A