The conference has ended. Each year it gathers more speakers, programmers and companies. Each year I miss a singing performance done by a friend of mine - they fall into the same day:)Needless to say, there were plenty of technically great talks - I wasn't able to visit them all, as in previous year too. I always looking forward for such events, as I love meeting people passionate about the stuff they are doing. It's always feels great to meet people you've met before, so this year was a bit special for me - I was returning back to my home city for the time of the conference:)
Briefly about talks I was lucky to visit:
- Play with play!
Disclaimear: they were trying Play! pre 2.0.
Anton was telling us the story of their failure. Framework works great if you do everything the Play! way, but is hard to tackle otherwise. Multi-module projects have bad support by cloud providers, and you loose this lean reload pace when redeploying to the cloud. Also tests are all about integration and framework is not able to launch only subset of them - in their case 15 mins each launch. - I was going to visit Introduction to ActiveMQ apollo then, but spent the time in the lobby talking with Anton Arhipov asking questions about ZeroTurnaround products and eventually switching to the pleasant theme of life and universe ane everything. Anton Naumov joined us later so we had a pleasant time discussing tricky integration experiences.
I was not able to afford JRebel, so used Maven. (c) Yet another guy
Franlky this was the most pleasant and useful session for me. - Next, guys were delivering Performance optimization methodology talk - frankly I've lost the thread somewhere in the 4ths quarter, but I relaxed knowing that slides will be published. One of the sources I'll really return back to soon.
- I missed most of the Becoming a professional Java Developer because of slacking around, but seen lots of excited people at the mall, and later around twenty of them surrounding Yakov and questioning him all over:)
- Next one was talk about Fork/Join and I loved it much. Again pace was a bit too fast compared to the amount of information delivered, but it had plenty of examples, pitfalls and design thoughts - really a great one! Room was filled with 120% of it's expected capacity.
- Cassandra in practice was the last one for me and I enjoyed the opportunity to ask some questions I was curious about. Suprisingly I've heard that Super Column Families are essentially deprecated and that 50% space claimed by Cassandra for compactions are mandatory(I've done an experiment filling disk partition with data up to 100% and had no complains from Cassandra till the latest moment)