NIX Solutions’ Java-delegation at JPoint-2015

At the end of April Radisson Slavyanskaya hotel in Moscow was filled with Java-developers.

Everyone from newbies to Java-gurus was there for one of the coolest Java-conferences JPoint-2015.

Of course, our developers could not miss it, and NIX Solutions sent a group to visit the best Java-event of this spring.

Hardcore JPoint-2015

JPointis the conference for experienced Java-developers and all reports here are on development only.

NIX Solutions Experts at JPoint-2015.

This is the third event, and every year it gets more interesting and more hardcore! The conference is organized by JUG.ru community (Java User Group) and is being marketed as an alternative to Oracle conferences.

Although JPoint-2015 is associated with hardcore Java, all levels of Java-adepts had an opportunity to choose the appropriate topic to broaden their horizons, to look at the familiar technologies from the different perspective, to find out about the novelties of the sphere and to adopt the speakers’ best practices.

                                                                                                                                                           Candies from “Odnoklassniki”, trinkets from JetBrains and philosophy for Java-developers

Serviceability in HotSpotAfter a short registration procedure the participants had a chance to meet sponsors, hosts and other participants. There were showcases of sponsoring participants in the lobby of the hotel where everyone could talk to companies’ representatives, ask them questions.

The participants were lured to the stands by all available means: “Odnoklassniki” gave away candies, Deutsche Bank offered a workout for the brain, T-Systems entertained with a football game between radio-guided robots, JetBrains gave various promotional trinkets, though the stand itself has aroused genuine interest of many developers, who knew their products firsthand.

After the formal opening the conference began with an extraordinary speech by philosopher Dmitry Galkin. Its purpose was to expand the participants’ consciousness, to help them see the development as a creative process and to show the importance of technical component in contemporary art. The report was amusing and entertaining, sometimes harsh, and definitely unexpected.

During only 1 day more than 20 reports in 4 parallel rooms and several roundtable discussions were held. The reports touched upon various topics, and everyone could find something to their liking. Due to the “open room” organization of the conference the participants could move from one room to another at any time.

What’s interesting?

The experienced Java-gurus who developed well-known products were the speakers of the conference:

  • Representatives of the Oracle Java Performance Team (Alex Shipilev, Sergey Kuksenko and Dmitry Chuiko)
  • JVM Developers (Vladimir Ivanov from Oracle, Ivan Krylov from Azul, Volker Simonis from SAP)
  • Developers of high-load and fault-tolerant systems (Andrew Pangin from Odnoklassniki, Alexey Zinoviev from Tamtek)
  • The creators of the best tools for Java-programmers (Podhalyuzin Alexander, leading Scala expert in JetBrains, Anton Arkhipov, JRebel and Xrebel expert, Nikita Salnikov from Plumb)

CompletableFutureDuring the breaks, while having their cup of coffee the participants could ask speakers questions, to share impressions or just chat in a relaxed atmosphere in the “areas of expertise.

The event lasted all day, however, the time flashed by in one breath. Most of the reports were truly topical and meaty, which is not surprising given the immense experience of the speakers. Some of the issues involved and their solutions were familiar, some were worth consideration, but a few of the solutions were really overwhelming.

NIX Solutions delegation has made its own reports’ rating:

  • “The best debugger is the one made by yourself”, Andrey Pangin, Odnoklassniki – a report on profiling and debugging capabilities offered by JDK to create its extremely efficient and simple tools, tailored to solve specific tasks. The report was very concise, simple, and at the same time exciting and full of interesting details.
  • “Javassist at Java-developer’s service” Anton Arkhipov, ZeroTurnaround – lifted the veil and told us what’s happening on the other side of JRebel. The report was dedicated to javassist’s functionality within a dynamic code changes and the problems it can solve. Besides, Anton told what should not be done.
  • “Mom, I want Hibernate for NoSQL or whatever you have in mind…”, Alexei Zinoviev, Tamtek – taught us to manage projects without Hibernate and the like, and told what tools can be used instead.

Thanks to an intensive program, outstanding speakers and engaging reports, NIX Solutions’ Java delegation left Radisson Slavyanskaya inspired with new development ideas and determined to reach new peaks working on NIX Solutions’s projects.

NIX Solutions Java-experts strongly believe that JPoint is a conference to be recommended even to the most experienced developers. Now our guys are already planning a trip to JPoint-2016. See you there in 2016.

Source: NIX Solutions