Q. You’re speaking at Voxxed Days Bucharest in March. Tell us a bit about your session.

This session introduces Java Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) as a novel way for building high-performance reactive streams processing for connected/embedded/robotics devices using Spring Reactor and RxJava libraries.
It includes a demo of running reactive hot event streams processing on a custom developed Java robot called IPTPI (using Raspberry Pi 2, quad-core at 900MHtt, 1 GB RAM): motor encoders, gyroscope, accelerometer, compass and distance sensor events. More information about robots developed at IPT and RoboLearn hackathons is available at: http://robolearn.org/

Q. Why is the subject matter important?

Internet of Things (IoT) and service robotics are emerging game changers for many industries including home automation and smart cities, smart vehicles, agriculture, retail, education and sport. The essential requirements for the emerging device/process/service ecosystems is effective, efficient, secure, scalable and reliable distributed event processing. Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) becomes a popular paradigm for building distributed event processing systems, by providing easy to use and composable higher-level abstraction for high performance computing, and hiding complexities of non-blocking concurrency implementations. Reactor and RxJava are complementary reactive event processing frameworks providing feature rich and efficient implementation of reactive programming paradigm in Java.

Q. Who should attend your session?

Software developers or just robotics/IoT hobbyists interested in reactive programming and its practical implementation for high-performance (hot) event streams processing in Java.

Q. What are the key things attendees will take away from your session?

Better understanding of functional reactive programming in general, and state-of-the-art reactive Java frameworks in particular – with emphasis on Reactor and RxJava. Practical “real robotic world” examples for functional hot event stream processing and (hopefully) amusement with IPTPI robot 🙂
Some background info and a lot of resources on Java robotics and IoT.

Q. Aside from speaking at Voxxed Days Bucharest, what else are you excited about for 2016?

Practical IT education by building and programming Things, and sharing knowledge about it. High-performance FRP and its applications for distributed (big data) computing for IoT. Building own CNC router/3D printer/laser cutter for robot parts and IoT cases for all the friends around.

Q. You’re speaking at Voxxed Days Bucharest in March. Tell us a bit about your session.

The session is going to be a short workshop – I’ll be going through a presentation on JavaScript development and see how JS can be utilized in a full stack environment including the backend, middle-tier and the frontend. After this I’ll perform some live coding (always the most exciting bit of the talk) and I’ll put together a quick application on stage.

Q. Why is the subject matter important?

If you work as a developer you know that JavaScript is all over the place. I think it’s important for people to comprehend how one programming language can be used throughout the stack efficiently and effectively. I am not trying to sell you this solution as a superstack for all your development problems but it’s certainly an interesting option and I’d like people to go home and play with it.

Q. Who should attend your session?

Anyone who is interested in JavaScript development – especially for people who know either Node.js or a frontend framework and would like to see how this one technology overarches the stack – along with a NoSQL database that has capabilities which allows developers to run JavaScript close to the data.

Q. What are the key things attendees will take away from your session?

They’ll have an idea how the three layers of the stack can work/communicate together.

Q. Aside from speaking at Voxxed Days Bucharest, what else are you excited about for 2016?

Well, quite honestly, it’s nothing development related. My country has finally qualified for the Euro 2016 after 30 years of not being present at a major tournament so that’s quite exciting 🙂

Q. You’re speaking at Voxxed Days Bucharest in March. Tell us a bit about your session.

We (Mihaela and I) will share with you how we have transitioned from an agile software development organization into an even more agile DevOps team. As we were (and still are) growing very fast we had to adopt our way of working and tackle dependencies. We’ll talk about our joys and hurdles, and what it has given us so far. It will be a duo presentation, to cover the whole story. I played a role in the organisational change as the Software Development Manager, and Mihaela will talk about the journey of the software development teams seen from her software engineer role.

Q. Why is the subject matter important?

DevOps seems a simple concept but actually this is a major change for all persons involved including the software engineers. The operational responsibility is completely different from software development and bringing these two disciplines together in one team is not easy. Since many organisations will move towards a DevOps way of working, we believe it is very interesting to hear their stories. We’ll share our own story hoping to inspire people to go for the change.

Q. Who should attend your session?
People interested in DevOps and the change it comes with. We’ll touch upon what it meant for our system engineers, software engineers, and last but not least, our business stakeholders.

Q. What are the key things attendees will take away from your session?
That a transition to DevOps doesn’t only impact how teams are working but also the tooling needs and the software architecture. DevOps is about changing the people, the processes and the technology!

Q. Aside from speaking at Voxxed Days Bucharest, what else are you excited about for 2016?
We are excited to work with so many great people at a fast growing company as bol.com!