Gone are the days when developers held no power! This means companies now need to focus more on what developers want out of a product. In comes Open Liberty, an Open-Source Java runtime that is built for developers. It was first created (open-sourced) around 4 years ago and has been optimised for the cloud-native world providing some of the best performance stats in the industry. In this session I will talk about the benefits of using this Open-Source runtime and demonstrate how easy it is to get started in any environment.

Talk Level:
BEGINNER

Bio:
Jamie is a software developer and Advocate for Open Liberty, MicroProfile and Jakarta EE based at IBM’s R&D Laboratory in Hursley, UK. He is a subject matter expert in containerised solutions and takes a keen interest in emerging technologies with experience in Maven, git, Jenkins and microservice architecture. He fell in love with Java at University and has gone on to talk at many conferences about using Java with microservices. He has worked on a wide variety of projects such as modernising CICS mainframe testing infrastructure, creating and automating the creation of Docker images for IBM’s products, contributing to a DevOps pipeline offering and creating web applications for events at the Lab. His recent passion is around raising awareness about energy consumption of technology and discovering ways to help reduce technologies carbon footprint.