Matthew Gilliard
From Oracle
Matthew is a (somewhat) functional programmer who enjoys all kinds of language nerdery.
He currently works on open-source code at Oracle, helping to make Java in the cloud be as good as it can. If not there, you might find him at a local meetup, teaching kids to code, or away from computers hiking and running in Southwest England.
Past lives include OpenStacking, teaching English to highschoolers and a whole lot of Clojure and Java.
Blog: https://mjg123.github.io
Cloud, Containers & Infrastructure
Fn Project – an open source container native serverless platform
Serverless computing and FaaS (Function as a Service) are the new blacks! They radically change how software is organized, deployed, and charged for, and is in the process of further disrupting the still-evolving world of cloud computing.
This hands-on session will introduce you to 'Fn Project' (http://fnproject.io), a new open source serverless platform, which features a code-first approach to building polyglot applications. We will discuss Fn Flow, a CompletionStage like API, used to compose multiple functions into meaningful applications. No flow-charts, no exoteric stuff, just plain readable and testable (Java) code! And although 'Fn Project' is polyglot, this session will focus mostly on the Java and Kotlin side of it.