Conference: March 4-6, 2015
Track: Taming Mobile
Location:
- Mountbatten, 6th flr.
Day of week:
- Friday
Mobile is no longer the Next Big Thing but a requirement for your business. Find out about the current state of the art and hear from those who have implemented successful mobile systems and strategies.
by Mandy Waite
Developer Advocate at Google
Mobile backends that can synchronize data with all application users in real time don't just write themselves, or do they? It would be handy if they did, you could then focus on what your best at, building mobile applications. Firebase is a cloud based NoSQL database, A RESTful API and a set of powerful client libraries that allow you to add real-time, collaborative features to your apps without writing any server side code.
In this session we'll show you how simple it...
by Iordanis Giannakakis
Android team Lead, Shazam
by Savvas Dalkitsis
Senior Software Engineer at Shazam
Shazam is a very popular audio recognition app. It is installed on 100M+ Android devices and it’s growing rapidly. In this talk, we would like to address how we have made our releases schedule faster, more predictable and with more features by using BDD and automation testing. We will demonstrate how that can be done without slowing down or hindering the development process and why our developers actually find writing tests is fun. Finally, we will look at how our testing strategy has...
by Alex Blewitt
Author of Swift Essentials and InfoQ Editor
This presentation will introduce the history behind Swift, why it was created, how it differs from Objective-C and how Swift is compiled and executed under the covers. It will go into details about how LLVM is used, the way that memory is managed, how objects are laid out, and a prediction of the way Swift and Objective-C will evolve over time.
by Jesper Richter-Reichhelm
Head of Engineering at Wooga
At Wooga we've learned quite a lot by developing and operating mobile games throughout the last years. Handling multiple teams, multiple platforms, multiple languages and millions of daily users on top of that led to a fair share of lessons learned the hard way. We have done many mistakes but over time we have also improved a lot in how we do cross platform development, testing and deploying mobile apps as well as operating games as a service over many years.
This talk will be about...
by Benjamin Augustin
Software Craftsman and Android developer at Novoda
Ever had to deal with terribly designed API or spent hours re-factoring your code to deal with an updated API? You’ve heard about RxJava but can’t see how it could benefit your project?
This talk will take the practical approach of a complex API to explain how RxJava and Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) can be used on every project to make your life easier.
by Richard Kasperowski
QCon Open Space Facilitator
Open Space
Join Trisha Gee, our speakers, and other attendees for the Mobile Open Space.
What is Open Space?
Every day at QCon London, we’ll open space five times, once for each track. Open Space is a kind of unconference, a simple way to run productive meetings for 5 to 2000 or more people, and a powerful way to lead any kind of organization in everyday practice and extraordinary change.
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Tracks
Covering innovative topics
Wednesday, 4 March
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Architecture Improvements
Next gen architecture, Arch over the full lifecycle, Bleeding edge tech in legacy, Cognitive biases in architecture, Evolving Architecture.
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Big Data Frameworks, Architectures, and Data Science
As big data tools and architectures continue to evolve, how do you architect and select technologies that work now but are also future-proof?
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DevOps and Continuous Delivery: Code Beyond the Dev Team
As infrastructure becomes as malleable as code, a unified approach from reqs to ops is needed to deliver promised breakthroughs.
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Engineering Culture
The best teams and companies talk about how to create amazing engineering cultures.
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Java - Not Dead Yet
Java is evolving to meet developer and business needs, from lambdas in Java 8 to built-in support for money types rumoured for Java 9.
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Mind Matters at Work
How theories from neuroscience and psychology can help us better understand IT professionals and discover what really motivates them.
Thursday, 5 March
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Docker, containers and application portability
People building stuff for and with containers showing why application portability is important, and what can be done with expanding ecosystems.
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Evolving agile
Reflecting on and learning from successes and failures in applying agile approaches since the creation of the Agile Manifesto and exploring ways of applying agile practices to increase business value.
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HTML and JS Today
The state of the art in web technologies. What is important to know and why?
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Internet of Things
What software devs need to know to design and build for instrumented environments and reactive things, what new issues and questions it raises.
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Modern CS in the Real World
How modern CS helps you tackle today's problems.
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Reactive Architecture
How to create reactive systems is more than simply learning a framework. Thinking in a reactive way helps you to design responsive architectures.
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The Go Language
The Go Language - Concurrency, Performance, Systems Programming.
Friday, 6 March
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Get a rare look behind the scenes and get to see the architectures of the most well-known sites with the least known architectures.
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Low latency trading
The 'race to zero' continues. Join us to learn about the latest tecniques being deployed to optimise order routing and execution.
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Open source in finance
Financial services have changed from OS as cost-saving to a competitive weapon. See open source projects that are disrupting the finance industry.
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Product Mastery
Come have fun with fellow PMs and BAs as you learn about Value Management. We'll even tell you dark tales of Snarks, Hippos and other obstacles.
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Taming Microservices
Tackling the challenges of microservices in practice.
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Taming Mobile
Mobile is no longer the Next Big Thing but a requirement for your business. Hear from those who have implemented successful mobile systems.
