[Foojay JUG Tour] Level Up Your Java Containers

*** This is a special Foojay Virtual JUG World Tour event, brought to us by our Gold Sponsor, JFrog ***

ABOUT Foojay.io (Twitter: @foojayio)

Foojay.io (https://foojay.io) is the new Java community platform with everything you need to do your daily Java development work — with reference materials on the latest OpenJDK versions, vendors, and distributions, together with insights into the latest quarterly updates, articles, blogs, tips and tricks, and much more. And all for free, accompanied by a Slack channel for discussion on all things Java and OpenJDK.

To celebrate and introduce Foojay.io, members of the Foojay community are doing a JUG tour and one of the stops is right here. Come join in, learn about Foojay, and hear JFrog's Melissa McKay speak on "Level Up Your Java Containers".

ABSTRACT:

This session is a must for any Java developer under the pressure of high-performance expectations and tight deadlines in a cloud-native architecture. To that end, we have learned to make use of a variety of tools and abstractions to help move us along the path to production quickly and effectively. There is a rapidly and continuously evolving ecosystem that sustains the forward march of microservice architectures and their deployments. But, there's a dark side to using these tools in a rush to the finish line. Without taking a step back to understand what's happening below the surface, we can find ourselves stumbling in areas concerning quality, efficiency, and even security.

For many of us, the first step was to simply get our Java application up and running as expected within a container, and Docker was our tool of choice. Now it's time to review what you have implemented and make some improvements. Containerizing our Java applications is fairly straightforward with the latest container aware versions, but there are still pitfalls that can trip you up if you don't know where to look. This session will dive into the best practices of packing your Java container images efficiently and effectively for the trip to production. You will learn valuable information about cloud-native tools available today for building and running containers (including Docker alternatives), container image formats, image storage concerns, and common gotchas to avoid.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

Geertjan Wielenga (Twitter: @GeertjanW)

Senior Director of Open Source Projects at Azul Systems, Leader @ Foojay.io, PMC Chair @ Apache NetBeans, Java Champion.
Author at Foojay: https://foojay.io/today/author/geertjan-wielenga

Melissa McKay (Twitter: @melissajmckay)

Melissa McKay is a long time developer turned international speaker and is currently a Developer Advocate for JFrog, Inc., with a mission to improve the developer experience of DevOps methodologies. Her background and experience as a software engineer span a slew of languages, technologies, and tools used in the development and operation of enterprise products and services. She is a mom, software engineer, Java geek, huge fan of UNconferences, and is always on the lookout for ways to grow and learn. She has a passion for teaching, sharing, and inspiring fellow practitioners and you are more than likely to run into her in the conference circuit.

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