Wednesday keynote

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IBM

Pratik Patel & Mary Grygleski. And John Duiovich & Tim Ellison (An four people from the community)

• #callforcode. Disaster prep code.
• Cloud is reality whether public cloud or in house cloud
• Eclipse foundation community – Jakarta EE and Microprofile
• starting to do more polyglot environments in cloud native; puts more pressure on JVM
• challenges – varied programming models, dynamic environment, cloud economics (paying for resources used)
• opportunities – acss to powerful services, devops integration, responsive behavior
• J9 VM is open source (Open J9)
• Next level – JVM itself becomes a cloud service
• Demo of remote JIT service on two laptops (JIT compilation in the cloud)
• Adopt OpenJDK
  • started Adopt a JSR when London Java Community started on EC
  • Looked at how to make easier to build OpenJDK
  • Build farm to crank out many different versions of Java
  • Aiming to support OpenJDK LTS releases for 4 years
• Brought up all BM speakers. A lot of people! Threw socks at audience. One guy ran down the aisle so they made it more than aa few rows back.

Groundbreakers Avengers

• Roles in skit
  • Dr Strange
  • Average developer
  • Thano Duke is villain – popping little kid balloons
  • JUG leaders as superheros. Two have masks so don’t kow who are. One has a Groot puppet!
  • Un conference forces! Said unconference rules
• Did shout outs by country. Brazil was quiet. Asia was quiet. The   US was quieter than it should have been. The build up to the Netherlands orange shirt folks was great. Loud and in front.
• Plot: need to find infinity stones. Had hidden objects under chairs
• Un conference people brought out beer on stage. Had a “stone planning” session. Listed random acronyms and patterns
• Got dig in about the lack of beer at ignite
• Silly programming whiteboard exercise using tech buzzwords to see how any balls can fit in a schoolbus Good pun on bus!
• A bunch of jokes about uploading the stones with different technologies
• Used Java beyond the cloud to get Thanos Duke from outer space/orbit
• Brought out Duke in costume on stage along with handler! Duke waddles so the speed is hillarious!