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17 May 2018

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Last week, I was fortunate enough to attend GeeCON. GeeCON is a well-known conference in the JVM world and this year marked its 10th anniversary. More than 1200 people came to see over 80 sessions from more than 70 speakers distributed across 4 tracks over 3 days in Krakow, Poland. This was my first time attending GeeCON. In retrospect,...

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DevTO is a popular meetup for software developers in Toronto. Attended by over 100 developers on the last Monday of each month, the group features two 20-minute presentations on various topics from the industry, accompanied by food, drinks and networking. On April 30, Wealthsimple hosted the event celebrating the 7th anniversary of DevTO. I was invited to...

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25 Apr 2018

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Java With The Best is a new Java conference in a series of developer conferences powered by BeMyApp. There are 2 main properties that differentiate this event from other conferences you may have attended – everything takes place online, without a physical venue, and attendees can book virtual 1-1 sessions with the speakers. The event featured 58...

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28 Feb 2018

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In the previous post, we talked about one of the talks I gave at the Index Developer Conference last week. In this post, we share the materials from the other one, titled How we built a global search engine for genetic data. The session was scheduled in the Real-life production deployments track. Unlike the talks I usually...

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27 Feb 2018

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Index Developer Conference is a new conference organized by IBM to promote software development as a craft. The event took place at the Moscone Center, San Francisco, a popular software conference venue, on February 20-22, 2018. This was my first conference of the year and I was very excited about being invited to give 2 talks in 2...

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6 Jan 2018

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Huge thanks to the Singapore Java User Group for having me as a speaker at their first event of 2018, Pivotal for hosting the event and providing pizza and drinks, as well as all the attendees for finding the time, all the positive feedback and good questions! Despite taking place early in the new year, the event...

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15 Jun 2017