Solutions Track: Big Data, Spring XD, DVCS, API Management

Hear in-depth presentations from leading vendors on Big Data, mobile development, performance tuning, and more while learning how commercial tools and technologies are tackling some of the toughest issues in these areas.

Day of week:

Tuesday

Location:

Marina Room

Host:

Nitin Bharti

Presentations

Data Movement at Very Large Scale: Real-World Examples in Capital Markets, Customer Service and Sensor Networks

2:50pm - 3:40pm

By: Hans Jespersen
Principal Systems Engineer

Most big data strategies focus on storage and analytics, with the collection and distribution of all that information an afterthought. Using real-world examples of distributed big data systems in capital markets trading systems, mobile carrier customer service systems, and M2M sensor networks, this talk will discuss the value and challenges of efficiently moving information at big data scale. From the aggregation of distributed data for loading into Hadoop clusters to synchronizing terabyte-scale in-memory data grids across geographies, Hans will discuss techniques and tools that can increase the rate and efficiency of data flows within big data architectures.

No fear refactoring in the distributed version control system (DVCS) age - Enter SemanticMerge

1:35pm - 2:25pm

By: Pablo Santos
Founder & CTO Codice Software

Half a decade ago, version control status quo was broken; that is, until Git and the new DVCS changed the landscape of software development.

We're now in the distributed version control age with teams embracing fully distributed (several sites) and strong parallel development best practices. Ask any developer facing a very common operation, diff and merge, and they'll tell you: "I wish it was able to understand the code structure". This is what SemanticMerge is all about.

SemanticMerge is the starting point for a new breed of tools, deeply integrated with DVCS practices that calculates differences and performs merges based on code parsing, instead of just comparing text blocks. It's not 1980 anymore!

SemanticMerge is not just a cool tool; rather, it's here on a mission to enable the refactoring of code to improve readability and maintainability.

The only reason why teams do not refactor more often is because they have to work in parallel and merge code, which can be a real pain without proper tool support. This is precisely the SemanticMerge mission: turn impossible merges into trivial ones!

This session will cover:

How to diff and merge refactored code with SemanticMerge
Under the hood: the inner workings of the tool
Next step: multi-file SemanticMerge
Towards Semantic version control

Realizing the promise of APIs

11:45am - 12:35pm

By: Reza Shafii
Director of Product Management, MuleSoft

APIs present numerous opportunities – mobile enablement, monetization of services, and customer and partner enablement to name a few. But where do you start? At this session we’ll present a few real-world API use cases and demonstrate how MuleSoft’s API Platform can help you design, build, run and manage APIs to drive real business results.

Presentations

Introducing Spring XD

5:20pm - 6:10pm

By: Mark Pollack
Principal Software Engineer at SpringSource

Developing Big Data applications is a relatively new art and developing a comprehensive solution can be challenging. Some of the key challenges arise from bringing together complex domains such as stream analysis, batch workflow orchestration and data import and export.

Several open source projects that address developing big data applications have emerged in the past few years but each project typically only address one of these domains.

Furthermore, being distinct independent projects they have different configuration and extensibility models. Spring XD is a new project that aims to tackle big data complexity. It builds upon proven Spring technologies and provides a scalable runtime environment that is easily configured and assembled via a simple DSL.

Come discover how easy it is to create big data applications in this introduction to Spring XD.

Cross Platform Mobile App Development Tools Landscape

10:30am - 11:20am

By: Alex Gaber
Developer, MobileApp.IO

Write once, run anywhere, for mobile and tablet.

Managing multiple codebases for Android, iOS, mobile and tablet, quickly leads to numerous permutations and slows releases for updates and improvements. The promise of a single code base for mobile and tablet apps is one that has led to the recent creation of hundreds of development tools and frameworks. The result is hybrid native apps based on HTML5, Javascript and CSS, wrapped up to 'feel native.'

This talk will provide a comprehensive overview of all the various tools and frameworks available that make up mobile app architectures. The strengths and weaknesses of several of them will be explored, as well as real-world examples of consumer and enterprise apps using the various architectures.

The Coming of Age of Internal API Management

4:05pm - 4:55pm

By: Blake Dournaee
Sr Product Manager for Intel® Expressway API Manager

For years, Enterprises have looked to technology and architectural solutions outlined by services and service oriented architecture.

This talk looks at the evolution of the service layer in the context of the new prevailing developments in API management and describes new architectural approaches an Enterprise can take as they look to merge these two worlds, taking the best practices from both domains. We cover some of the benefits of looking at existing SOA deployments through an API lense. For internal API Management, we present a decision framework for determining how an enterprise can deploy API sharing portals with API Gateways for enforcement-exploring SaaS, on-prem, and hybrid options.