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In this interview, Anil Gaur, Group Vice President of Engineering at Oracle, sheds some light on Oracle’s Java EE strategy and roadmap.  He describes how the platform will evolve to support the cloud and companies wanting to move to the cloud, comments on the future of the Microprofile.IO, and explains why Java EE 8 is being delayed until the end of 2017.  Anil also provides his perspective on one of the popular choices for Java-based development on the cloud today - Spring Boot and Cloud Foundry - and what developers can expect from Java EE in the future.  

Anil is Group Vice President of Engineering at Oracle. Prior to joining Oracle, Anil led the global team that produced key middleware technologies at Sun Microsystems including the Java EE platform, GlassFish Server, and Java Message Queue. Anil has played an instrumental role in open-sourcing the Java EE platform through the GlassFish community. He has also led the integration of MySQL with Sun's middleware product portfolio.

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The Future of Java EE and Java on the Cloud

Dan Nelson, Head of Data at Ocado Technology, is responsible for developing systems that allow Ocado - a well known, UK-based online grocer that provides home delivery - to harvest it's data both locally and in the cloud. In this interview, Dan shares examples of how Ocado is using machine learning (ML), natural language processing, and Tensorflow. He describes what Ocado is doing today with Data Science, Google Cloud, and AWS, and how he sees the ML and deep learning space evolving over the next several years.

Dan Nelson: Machine Learning & Data Science Innovation at Ocado Technology

In this interview NGINX's Chris Stetson describes some of the biggest pain points associated with microservices development and describes the various patterns and models - including the Circuit Breaker Pattern - covered in his new book, "Microservices Reference Architecture."  Chris also talks about the fundamental differences between microservices and SOA and how NGINX has extended the 12-Factor App to encompass microservices.  

Chris Stetson, Chief Architect of Microservices Engineering at NGINX, has architected applications for twenty years, including the first versions of Sirius Satellite Radio, Visa.com, Intel.com, Microsoft.com, and Lexus.com. He has built large monolithic systems, service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications, and most recently microservice-based systems. Most recently, Chris has authored The Microservices Reference Architecture eBook, a practical guide that helps solve many of the challenges of building microservices-based applications.

Chris Stetson on the Microservices Reference Architecture

In this interview, Qlik Evangelist Rey Riel explains some of the key concepts - and challenges - a developer should be aware of when getting started with data visualization. He describes how Qlik - business Intelligence software for data visualization and guided analytics - addresses many of these challenges. He also introduces Qlik Playground, a free programming environment that allows you to use, explore, and quickly test your most complex and innovative data driven application ideas using Qlik technology.

Rey Riel serves as an Evangelist on the Developer Relations team at Qlik. Responsible for keeping Qlik Branch and Qlik Playground awesome places for developers to connect and share their creations, he is well-versed in JavaScript, SQL, HTML and has touched on over a dozen different languages in the last decade. He is also certified by Code School in Node.js, Angular.js, Express.js, MongoDB, Ruby Rails and JavaScript ES2015.

Rey Riel: Getting Started with Data Visualization and Qlik

In this podcast, Nicole Bryan, Vice President of Product Management at Tasktop Technologies, introduces the concept of software lifecycle integration, and how it enables the seamless flow of information - and software artifacts - between different tools and end users.  She describes how it  affects DevOps toolchain improves traceability between requirements and software artifacts (e.g. features, epics, stories), and explores some of the most common software lifecycle integration patterns being used today.  Finally, she talks about what's new in TaskTop integration Hub and the role of Value Stream Networks.  

Bio:

Nicole Bryan is Vice President of Product Management at Tasktop Technologies with extensive technical background and demonstrated leadership and management skills. Proven ability as both a thought leader and executor resulting in visionary, well thought out products primarily focused on data analytics and business intelligence, data visualization and software development processes. Unique, well rounded combination of experience as both technical and business practitioner and manager in both industry and consulting roles.

Nicole Bryan: Software Lifecycle Integration, Value Streams, and the DevOps Toolchain

In this podcast, Roland Plaszowski, Head of OSP Retail Systems at Ocado Technology, introduces the Ocado Smart Platform (OSP) and delves into its overall architecture.

He describes how both AWS and Google Cloud Platform are being used, how cloud has impacted the way his team works, and how data and machine learning have been useful in the context of a cloud-based, grocery retailer such as Ocado.  

He talks about the evolution of OSP’s microservices architecture and explains what skills software engineers need to have as a result of widespread cloud adoption.

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