Session Abstracts

19:00 - Building Cloud-native microservices from Newbie to Expert in an hour - MicroProfile comes to rescue!

Ever wondered what makes a cloud-native application "cloud-native"?

Ever wondered what the unique challenges are and how best to address them on fully-open Java technologies?

In this session, you'll learn what it means to be cloud-native and how that impacts application development. You'll learn about Eclipse MicroProfile, an industry collaboration defining technologies for the development and management of cloud-native microservices.

In this session, Emilywill discuss in details on how MicroProfile can help with developing cloud-native microservices, followed by a live demo of creating and running a cloud-native microservice on Open Liberty.

20:30 - Istio and MicroProfile - match made in a box

Considering using Istio?

What are the best practices for building cloud-native microservices to be used in Istio?

Starting with a short introduction of Istio and MicroProfile, this session will show you why MicroProfile is recommended for building microservices and then how Istio and MicroProfile can work together to maximize Istio's capabilities, followed by a live demo of deploying two microservices using MicroProfile to Istio and demonstrate the tracing correlation etc.

About Emily

Emily Jiang is Java Champion. She is Senior MicroProfile lead and has been working on MicroProfile since 2016 and leads the specifications of MicroProfile Config, Fault Tolerance and Service Mesh. She is Config JSR co-spec lead and CDI Expert Group memember.

She works for IBM as Liberty Architect for MicroProfile and CDI. Based at IBM's Hursley laboratory in the UK, she has worked on the WebSphere Application Server since 2006 and is heavily involved in Java EE implementation in Liberty releases.

She regularly speaks at conferences, such as Code One, DevNexus, JAX London, Voxxed, Devoxx US, Devoxx Belgium, Devoxx UK, Devoxx France, EclipseCon, etc.

You can follow her on twitter at @emilyfhjiang

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