Groovy, with style

Featuring Guillaume LaForge

What should "idiomatic" Groovy code look like? What are the good practices in terms of syntax style, typing preferences? What are the nice shortcuts to be aware of to be more productive? Guillaume Laforge will answer those questions along the way!

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Forces on Groovy Architecture

Featuring David Dawson

Reactive, Service Oriented, Data Centric, Task Based, Event Oriented, Message Driven, Ham Fisted, Big Ball of Mud, Microservice, Monolithic, Minilithic. What should you adopt for your latest development, can you explain why, is it just dogma?

Architecture defines how we engage with our software,...

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RESTful Grails 2

Featuring Jeff Brown

Grails 2 includes a lot of features and functionality related to building RESTful services. These include an entirely new and more flexible data binding system, runtime and compile time metaprogramming which greatly reduce the amount of code required in your RESTful services, a rich set of...

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Micro Service Architecture with Spring Boot and Groovy

Featuring Marco Vermeulen

Spring Boot is a new addition to the Spring family. It takes an opinionated view of building Spring applications, adopting Convention Over Configuration by default. Add Groovy to the mix, and you have a web stack that will give you wings!

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Grails and the real-time world

Featuring Iván López

In a hyper-connected world the concept ""Real Time"" is used more and more every day. With the traditional Grails architecture it's difficult to achieve this, so we need to use a different approach. The answer is to use message driven architectures that will allow us to...

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Groovy and Android: a winning pair

Featuring Guillaume LaForge

For 10 years, Groovy has dramatically improved the productivity of Java developers on the desktop. With unique like closures, builders, AST transformations, traits, optional static compilation and many more, Groovy turned out to be a very competitive language on the JVM. Compared to other JVM...

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Keynote: Grails 3.0 Preview

Featuring Graeme Rocher

In this talk, Grails project lead Graeme Rocher will present a preview of the much anticipating version 3.0 rewrite of the Grails framework including presentation of the goals behind the changes and what will be achievable with the new version.

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GPars 2014

Featuring Russel Winder

GPars is the standard package for high-level concurrency and parallelism in Groovy: although it is a separate project and artefact, it is distributed as standard in Groovy. There are (at least) two forms of concurrency and parallelism: single computer (multi-core, multi-processor) and cluster....

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Modular Monoliths with Grails 3 and Spring Boot

Featuring Lari Hotari

Modular monoliths are composed of loosely coupled modules of single responsibility. Ideally these modules can be separated into true microservices when needed - instead of introducing accidental complexity and tradeoffs of distributed systems to projects in the beginning. In this presentation we...

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Groovy VFS

Featuring Schalk Cronjé

Groovy VFS is a humble DSL that makes the Apache VFS library really useful. Copying from and to remote FTP, SFTP & HTTP sites become one line operations. Moving documents across servers are just as simple. Need to download an archive file from a website and unpack it? That is simple too.

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