SpringOne Platform Conference 2017 – By Professor Payman Salek

Live Reports from SpringOne Platform Conference

With 2800+ attendees, 145+ talks, 200+ speakers, 32 keynotes, and 43 sponsors, SpringOne Platform 2017 was simply amazing!

Day 1
I arrived in San Francisco Friday night and started my very intense, two-day pre-conference training in Spring Cloud Services this Sunday morning.

SpringOne Platform is the most notable Spring Platform conference and I feel very lucky to have been able to attend two years in a row! Last year, I did the two-day pre-conference training in Spring Boot and this year’s training in Spring Cloud Services builds right on top of Spring Boot!

I am learning how to break down the monolith and use Spring to create microservices. In the process, we are covering topics such as:

Gradle Build Tool
Martin Fowler’s Strangler Pattern
Transforming the Monolith to Microservices
Spring Cloud
What is Spring Cloud Services?
Spring Cloud Contract

Here are some photos from the conference venue:

Day 2
Monday was the second day of my pre-conference training in Spring Cloud Services. We covered a lot of very interesting topics such as:

Twelve Factor App and The Art of The Platform –12factor.net
Circuit Breakers – Hystrix
Service Discovery – Eureka
Load Balancing – Ribbon
REST Client Abstraction – Feign (Alternative to RestTemplate)
Externalizing Config Using Spring Cloud Config

The training was very rich with hands on labs for all the technologies mentioned above! I learned a ton of stuff and feel more ready to face the world of “Microservices”!

Day 3
Tuesday marked my 3rd day at SpringOne and started off with a two-hour keynote by a panel of very distinguished speakers including Erich Gamma (one of the original GOF!), Onsi Fakhouri, Stephane Nicole and Philipp Web.

These were amazing talks and you can find a recording of them under:

Pivotal’s YouTube Channel for SpringOne Platform 2017

My day continued with attending the following sessions:

Reactive Spring – Josh Long and Mark Heckler
Servlet or Reactive Stacks – Rossen Stoyanchev
Cloud-Native Java with Spring Cloud Services – Chris Sterling
New in Spring 5.0: Functional Web Framework – Arjen Poutsma

Josh Long and Mark Heckler giving a demo

Overall, I had an amazing day filled with great talks by champion Spring developers! Extremely inspiring and extremely informative!

Day 4

Wednesday was my 4th day at SpringOne Platform 2017! Another day of amazing talks that started off by the main stage, including very distinguished speakers: Niki Allen (Boeing), Juergen Hoeller (Spring Framework Lead), Paul Fazzone (VMware) and more followed by the following sessions:

Spring Framework 5.0 on JDK 8 & 9 – Juergen Hoeller
Under the Covers of Spring Boot – Stephane Nicole & Brian Clozel
Serverless Spring – Dave Syer & Mark Fisher
Spring Framework 5.0 – Juergen Hoeller

Juergen Hoeller giving a talk on JDK adoption timeline

Day 5
Thursday marked the last day of SpringOne Platform Conference!

The most amazing talk I attended today was a session on JUnit 5.0 by Sam Brennan. Amazing speaker and a great mini-training (including live demos) on JUnit 5.0!

Here is the complete list of talks I attended today (conference ended at 1:00pm):

Main Stage (including talks by: James Governor, Richard Watson and Mark Ardito)
JUnit 5.0 – New Opportunities for Testing on the JVM by Sam Brennan
Refactoring to a System of Systems by Oliver Gierke

Overall, SpringOne was an amazing experience! I learned a ton of new stuff and my views (particularly on Enterprise Architecture, DevOps and Spring Cloud Services) were expanded tremendously.

Attendees leaving the main conference hall

I already look forward to SpringOne Platform 2018!

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