Solutions Track: Java Performance Tuning, HTML5, Mobile Dev

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:

Monday

Location:

Marina Room

Host:

Nitin Bharti

Presentations

Troubleshooting Live Java Web Applications

11:45am - 12:35pm

By: Ashley Puls
Senior Software Egineer at New Relic Inc.

This talk examines methods and tools that can be used to uncover and resolve performance problems arising in Java web applications. It touches on a few common problems such as slow SQL and blocked threads. It uses various diagnostic tools to examine these problems including log files, jvisualvm, and New Relic. Finally, it evaluates the use of these tools in a production environment, separating them into what can and cannot be used in live production applications.

Using HTML5 in the sales funnel to boost sales

5:20pm - 6:10pm

By: Chris Stetson
Vice President of Technology, Huge

eCommerce has evolved from a commodity-oriented transaction model where the goods and service are standardized and comparable, to a model that must also sell unique, rare or one-of-a-kind products and services. Selling these types of products requires an emotional engagement with the customer at a product, brand and experiential level. Building eCommerce systems that support these types of products requires a much more robust experience using rich, HTML5 interfaces layered on top of complex eCommerce systems like ATG, Demandware or booking engines that might be paired with CMS, DAMs and other systems to support a rich narrative experience.

Fun and games with enterprise software. Introducing WAS Liberty Profile

2:50pm - 3:40pm

By: Tom Banks
Technical Evangelist, IBM

This talk will cover several topics - starting with an introduction to the IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile which will showcase what it is and how it is improving the development experience the talk will then explore how the Liberty profile's extensible architecture allowed some interesting additions to "gamify" the running of enterprise software. The talk will also showcase what you can do when enterprise software becomes mobile and the implications this has. Finally the talk will showcase and discuss the IBM Code Rally game which is built on top of the Liberty Profile and other IBM software.

Presentations

Hybrid Mobile Development with Java & HTML5 for iOS and Android

4:05pm - 4:55pm

By: Joe Huang
Managing Mobile Technology Products at Oracle

While Java has been used in mobile applications and operating systems for many years now, maintaining cross-platform compatibility has been frankly illusive. Different operating systems frequently support different versions or flavors of Java, and some doesn't even support Java altogether. In this session, we will discuss approaches that would enable Java developers to create real cross-platform mobile applications with a single code base.

Furthermore, we will discuss how Java can be used to access critical device services such as Camera, which are critical to enterprise application functionality nowadays. Lastly, we will discuss how HTML5-based mobile-optimized user interface can be connected into the Java layer, as part of a complete MVC client architecture for enterprise mobile applications. Learn how to:

Create cross platform mobile applications from a single code base
Use Java to access Camera and other device services
Connect HTML 5 UIs with the Java Layer

How NOT To Measure Latency

10:30am - 11:20am

By: Gil Tene
CTO and co-founder of Azul Systems

Time is money. Understanding application responsiveness and latency is critical not only for delivering good application behavior but also for maintaining profitability and containing risk. But good characterization of bad data is useless. When measurements of response time present false or misleading latency information, even the best analysis can lead to wrong operational decisions and poor application experience.

This talk discusses common pitfalls encountered in measuring and characterizing latency, while using concrete real-world examples. It demonstrates and discusses some false assumptions and measurement techniques that often lead to dramatically incorrect reporting and covers ways to do a sanity check and correct such situations.

Performance Testing Crash Course

1:35pm - 2:25pm

By: Dustin Whittle
Developer Evangelist at AppDynamics

The performance of your application affects your business more than you might think. Top engineering organizations think of performance not as a nice-to-have, but as a crucial feature of their product. Those organizations understand that performance has a direct impact on user experience and, ultimately, their bottom line. Unfortunately, most engineering teams do not regularly test the performance and scalability of their infrastructure. Join this session to find out about the latest performance testing tools and why your team should add performance testing to your agile development process. We will dive in to how to evaluate performance and scalability with MultiMechanize, Bees with Machine Guns, and Google PageSpeed. You will leave this session with an understanding of how to automate performance testing and evaluate the impact it has on performance and your business.