In 2019 I visited Devoxx UA in Kiev and Devoxx BE in Antwerp.
Traveling was actually a little story by itself, so for now we can just assume that I magically was at the locations of DevoxxUA and DevoxxBE.
In Kiew I attended the following talks:
- Probabilistic data structures in nutshell (in Ukrainian) [Oleksandra Kulyk]
- Being transactional in 2019 – what does it actually mean? [Maciej Próchniak]
- Coding That Sparks Joy with Quarkus [Edson Yanaga]
- Java. Migrating to 11 in real app [Piotr Przybył]
- Design principles for the effective developer [Sebastian Daschner]
- Keynote: Performance [Chris Thalinger]
- Hibernate the Ripper [Taras Boychuk]
- RESTless Microservices and Event Driven Architecture [Edson Yanaga]
- Optimizing Performance of Java Applications with GraalVM [Alina Yurenko]
- Implementing GraphQL with authorization in microservice architecture [Ivan Kozlov]
- What does it take to be architect [Konstantin Slisenko]
- RSA is Dead. Long Live BB84! [James Birnie]
- Social Implications of Bias in Machine Learning [Fiona Coath]
- Safe-Awareness for Introverts (and why programmers suck at salary negotiations) [Cliff Click]
On Wednesday I attended the following talks in Antwerp:
- Keynote: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Diversity (Don’t panic!) [Audrey Neveu]
- Keynote: Qualities of a highly effective Architect [Venkat Subramaniam]
- Your Program as a Transpiler: Applying Compiler Design to Everyday Programming [Edoardo Vacchi]
- Who melt Chernobyl down [Anand Shukla]
- Swimming pool semaphores [Valentin Deleplace]
- Apache Pulsar 101: architecture, concepts & benchmarks [Quentin Adam & Steven Le Roux]
- Project Loom: Helping Write Concurrent Applications on the Java Platform [Ron Pressler]
- Collection Corner Cases [Stuart Marks]
- The Sincerest Form of Flattery [Maurice Naphtalin & José Paumard]
On Thursday I attended the following talks in Antwerp:
- Why We Hate Java Serialization And What We’re Doing About It [Brian Goetz & Stuart Marks]
- SSL/TLS for Mortals [Maarten Mulders]
- A Hacker’s Guide to JWT Security [Patrycja Wegrzynowicz]
- The past, present and future of the Java type system [Alasdair Collinson]
- The Bloom filter cartoon [Valentin Deleplace]
- How to Build a Decompiler [Tsviatko Yovtchev]
- Java. Migrating to 11 in real app [Piotr Przybyl]
- JUnit: time to shift into 5th gear [Juliette de Rancourt & Julien Topçu]
- Reacting to the future of application architecture [Grace Jansen] (the best talk)
- Keynote: How I used to rob banks! [Freaky Clown]
On Friday I attended the following talks in Antwerp:
- Teamwork is difficult, can Sociocracy help? [Ruben De Gauw]
- Beyond ByteBuffers [Brian Goetz]
- From Java to Golang, the journey of the nexuzhealth team [Dylan Meeus]
- Java Language Futures: Late 2019 Edition [Brian Goetz]
That’s it…
As always, a lot of these topics deserve an article in this blog. And a lot of video recordings from the conference are worth viewing.
Links
- Devoxx Youtube Channel
- Wikipedia
- devoxx.be
- devoxx.com.ua
- Travelling to Devoxx UA and Devoxx BE 2019
- Devoxx Kiev 2018
- Devoxx Antwerp 2018
