Dan Heidinga explains how a simple slogan revolutionized how IBM's J9 Java VM team creates the software that powers your Java applications and shares lessons learned from rearchitecting IBM's build pipeline around simplicity, in the process, becoming a key enabler for driving innovation throughout the product stack.

AOL is increasingly encouraging its engineers to contribute back to the community. John McClean offers an introductory overview of cyclops-react and demonstrates how it can integrate with other new technologies in the Java 8 ecosystem, such as Pivotal Reactor, Functional Java, and Javaslang.

Its clear containers are here to stay for building reliable, scalable applications. But what about applications developed prior to the advent of containerization? Using Minecraft as her example, Julia Ferraioli explains why retrofitting technology for containers poses conceptual and practical challenges that require an approach different than starting container native.

Baruch Sadogursky and Viktor Gamov aren't sure about you, but working with Java 8 made one of the speakers lose all of his hair and the other lose his sleep (or was it the jetlag?). If you still haven't reached the level of Brian Goetz in mastering lambdas and strings, this talk is for you. And if you think you have, we have some bad news for you, you should attend as well.

Kenny Bastani demonstrates how to build cloud-native Java applicationsdesigned to fully exploit a cloud platform both in the application layer, where things decompose into microservices, and at the data layer, where NoSQL offers better horizontal scaling and fitness for specific purpose.

Results matter. Choosing a technology stack shouldn't be an either/or discussion. Thankfully, when it comes to the industry's two largest enterprise application platformsJava EE and Springarchitects can cherry pick and integrate with ease. Markus Eisele and Joshua Long explain how architects and developers can benefit from the best of both technologies and embrace cloud-ready JVM architectures.