The Conference for the Apache Groovy, Grails, and Gradle Community
This annual event for the Apache Groovy, Grails, and Gradle (g3) community will be packed with amazing presentations delivered by project leaders, committers, authors, and industry experts of the Groovy/Grails/Gradle community.
When:
November 28 – December 1, 2017
Where:
Austin, TX
Grails WORKSHOP
We will also be sponsoring a 2-day training workshop delivered by subject matter experts in the Groovy, Grails, and Gradle communities. These workshops are included in the standard conference registration fee ... a $1,100 value!
Workshop participation will substantially increase your productivity with Groovy, Grails, and Gradle. Participants will spend a significant portion of the class with their hands on the keyboard, learning by doing, working through lab exercises designed to build on the presented material.
More details coming soon!
Speaker Highlight:
Graeme Rocher
Graeme is co-founder and Project Lead for Grails. Graeme has worked in the software development field for more than 20 years and has expertise in Grails, Groovy, Web Development, Dynamic Languages and the JVM. Graeme is co-author (with Jeff Scott Brown) of “The Definitive Guide to Grails.”
Graeme's talks include:
- Grails Roadmap Q&A
- GORM 6 Q&A
- Using Spring Cloud with Grails
- Serverless Groovy and Grails Applications with Serverless.com and Spring Cloud Functions
Jeff Scott Brown
Jeff is a co-founder of the Grails framework and a core member of the Grails development team. Jeff will deliver talks on:
- Advanced Metaprogramming Techniques for Groovy
- Powerful Testing Techniques for Groovy
- Groovy Update: What's New in Groovy 2.5+
- Groovy: The Awesome Parts
- Monitoring and Metrics with Grails 3
- Grails Multi-project Builds, Multi-datasource and Multi-tenancy
- Testing in Grails 3
- Functional Groovy
- Polyglot Web Development with Grails 3
Josh Long
Josh is the Spring Developer Advocate at Pivotal. Josh is a Java Champion, author of 5 books and 3 best-selling video trainings, and an Open Source contributor. He will be presenting:
Zachary Klein
Zachary has been doing Groovy & Grails development for over 6 years. Outside of the JVM and web dev space, Zachary is the author of the webpack and React profiles for Grails 3. Zachary's talks include:
- Grails and React Workshop
- Grails Launchpad: From Ground Zerio to Orbit!
- Grails in the Wonderful World of JavaScript Frameworks
Nirav Assar
Nirav is an OCI software engineer and a core member of the OCI Grails team. His talks include:
- Heads Down Grails Database Migration
- Stepping Up from Grails 2 to Grails 3 – Common Patterns
- Profiling Grails Applications with YourKit
Ryan Vanderwerf
Ryan is a developer at OCI on the Grails team. Formerly, he served as the Chief Systems and Software Architect and Director of Products at ReachForce and Lead Architect at www.developerprogram.com. He has helped maintain various Grails plugins, and serves as co-chair of the Groovy and Grails User Group in Austin, TX. Ryan's talks include:
