Friday, June 6, 2014

Speaking at RJUG on 2014-06-18 - Java PaaS and WildFly8 integration to CloudBees

Session Abstract: The CloudBees PaaS platform from a user perspective. Wildfly integration is done primarily as a clickstack (https://github.com/CloudBees-community/wildfly-clickstack) which is open to the OSS community. This will be a demonstration of the PaaS platform and the Wildfly clickstack integration.
Presenter: Jimmy Ray, Director/Sr. Architect at AuthX.
Until recently, Jimmy Ray was a solutions architect with CloudBees, Inc., an industry leader in on-premise and cloud-based PaaS, CI, CD, and DevOps solutions. The majority of his 20+ years in IT has been spent developing software and architecting enterprise Java solutions. Ray is a leader in the Richmond, VA Java community, and has spoken at several Java user groups and other conferences in the US and Europe. He is passionate about Java PaaS, and DevOps underpinned by open source software. Ray is also an impassioned Java and MongoDB integrator and has spoken on related topics across the US He is considered a thought leader in agile software development, and has led organizations toward successfully realizing business value through agile development. 

Monday, March 31, 2014

Speaking at Java One 2014

I will speaking at Java One 2014, in September.  My session will be on "Java PaaS - Truly enabling CI, CD, and DevOps".

This talk will focus on development and deployment using a Java PaaS. I will explain CI, CD, DevOps, and how it differs from what we do today. I will show how PaaS is the next generation of cloud services, underpinned by IaaS, and how it also relates to SaaS. I will show an example of real-world, currently available, tools to build CI, CD, and DevOps on PaaS.

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Richmond MongoDB User Group - Speaking on MongoDB and Spring Data

I am scheduled to speak about MongoDB and Spring Data at the Richmond MongoDB User Group Meetup at Snagajob on Thursday, February 20th, 2014.