Are you wondering how you can speed up your development and spend time on things that are actually interesting instead of waiting for code compilations and deployments, fidgeting with configurations, or spending hours tracking down bugs on production? Then this session might be for you! Join me as I take you through the inner & outer development loop and show you some interesting ways to simplify and accelerate development along the way. Through examples and explanations, an opinionated set of Open Source projects will be demonstrated that can make your (developer) life more enjoyable and productive. Takeaways: Learn how to save time and increase developer joy by using projects such as Quarkus, Jbang, GPT, TestContainers, JReleaser, SDKMAN, MicroProfile, Jib, Podman Desktop, Micrometer and OpenTelemetry.

Talk Level:
BEGINNER

Bio:
Kevin is a software engineer, author and international speaker with a passion for Open Source, Java (Quarkus), and Cloud Native Development & Deployment practices. He currently works as developer advocate at Red Hat where he gets to enjoy working with Open Source projects and improving the developer experience. He previously worked as a (Lead) Software Engineer at a variety of organizations across the world ranging from small startups to large enterprises and even government agencies. Kevin is actively involved in Open Source communities, contributing to projects such as Quarkus, Knative, Apache Camel, and Podman (Desktop); and as a member of the Belgian CNCF chapter as well as the Belgian Java User Group. Kevin speaks English, Dutch, French and Italian fluently and is currently based in Belgium, having lived in Italy and the USA as well. In his free time you can find Kevin somewhere in the wild hiking, gravel biking, snowboarding or packrafting.