About the conference

• 2400 attendees
• celebrating 25 years of Java
• This year, another conference NGAlt (angular conference) was run partially concurrently I got three attendees from that conference at my workshop yesterday. 
• Duke! Oracle shipped the Duke costume. Duke was on stage during the opening remarks.

Wednesday

• Full day workshop: Java Idioms

Thursday

• Keynote: Dueling Banjos – Burr Sutter & Ray Tsang
• Java: Did you know that? – Jeanne Boyarsky (link to deck since can’t blog my own)
• Agile Software Engineering – Jeff Wilson
• Mothering a Dev Team – Valarie Regas
• Metrics that Matter – Joel Tosi 
• Synchronized is obsolete – Enrique Zamudio
• Afternoon keynotes

Friday

• Quantum Computing – Jessica Pointing (this blog post is actually from Oracle Code One. But I saw the keynote there and it sounds like it was similar. Donut included)
• Worked in morning
• Developers Need to Take Notice: Malicious Attacks on Open Source are Getting Worse – Derek Weeks
• Open Development when You’re not in charge – Bob Paulin

See the table of contents for my other blog posts from the conference

• How plan long tern architecture when under constant change
• if on unicycle, focus on not falling. We are on the unicycle
• evolutionary architecture is guided change
• have to agree on what consistutes good. Not all systems need same level of security reliability, etc

Fitness function

• how we define good.
• Needs to be clear so no disagreement on whether the system meets. So cant just say “maintainability”
• examples: manual vs automated, temporal, triggered vs continuous, static vs dynamic
• think of us a test
• chaos monkey is like a test. You know configured correctly

Principles

• Make decisions at last responsible moment. Know the nost then
• evolvability needs to be a first class citizen
• how communicate across non functional requirements
• minimize logic to minimize change. Dont do unnecessary work
• testability
• Conway’s law. The communication structure of your system will mimic that of organization. Communication silos in an org result in broken ntegration

Techniques

• Continuous Delivery
• Database refactoring – can’t migrate a system if you are being held hostage by the data
• orchestration – the orchestra follows the conductor.
• Consumer driven contracts. – dont have to think about until test breaks

Kinds of monoloiths

• Ball of mud
• layered monolyth. Can’t change without coordinating across all layers. reduce costs by standarizing everything. Slows things down. IT is an enabler and not just a cost center
• modular monolyth
• micro kernel architecture is only adaptable in ways you predicated. Also have to write the adapters so have more code/bugs

My take

Good talk. It was interesting and applies to almost everyone. I particularly liked the principles. I would have liked to see the slides after it got stuck. The talk was clear. But it is a long day and would have been easier to follow by visually seeing the points on principles and techniques. Im glad she acknowledged the slides not working at leaat