Chris Richardson

Author of POJOs in Action

Chris Richardson is a developer and architect with over 20 years of experience. He is a Java Champion and the author of POJOs in Action, which describes how to build enterprise Java applications with POJOs and frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. Chris is the founder of CloudFoundry.com and works on cloud technology. He has a computer science degree from the University of Cambridge in England and lives in Oakland, CA with his wife and three children.

Presentations

Developing Java applications with Cloud Services

Cloud computing isn't just about application deployment. There is also a growing number of cloud-based web services that you can use to develop your application. One of the most well known is Amazon's Simple Storage Service. But there are many others including web services for messaging, relational and NoSQL databases, email and telephony. Using these services allows you to build highly scalable applications without the pain and cost of having to develop and operate your own infrastructure. In this presentation, you will learn how to use some of these web services. We will describe the Java libraries for interacting with them. You will learn about the benefits and drawbacks of these Web services and their typical use cases. We will describe an example application that is built using cloud services.

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Using Spring with non-relational databases

The needs of many enterprises have stretched traditional RDBMS based solutions to the breaking point and as a result, a plethora of new non-relational storage options have appeared. In this talk your learn about some popular NoSQL database including Redis, Cassandra and MongoDB. We show how the Spring Framework is evolving to support non relational ('NoSQL') databases by bringing traditional Spring values such as portability, productivity and a unified POJO based programming model to this style of data access.

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Private or Public - Developing Applications for the Cloud

Most people agree that the future of computing is in the cloud. However, what does that imply about how you develop or migrate existing applications to the new environment? Leveraging the lightweight and portable Spring framework appears to be a requirement to creating such applications. However, is that enough? Furthermore, is the cloud of the future in your private data center or in the public infrastructure? Will nirvana be achieved when we create the hybrid cloud to capture the best of both private and public clouds? Please join us as we walk through the evolution and the scenarios of various IaaS, PaaS, and future technologies yet to be made available.