Biography

Spencer Gibb is a Software Engineer for Pivotal, Inc.

His interests include distributed systems, jvm languages, web services frameworks, message-driven architectures and making software development simpler. He loves to create software to solve a pain point, such as creating a tool to automate workstation setup in his free time.

At Pivotal he works on Spring Cloud.

His industry experience has taken him from early e-commerce platforms to government and non-profit organizations to business intelligence startups. He has extensive java experience and experience in other languages such as scala and python. His database experience runs from Oracle and MySQL to Riak and Cassandra.

His blog is located at http://spencer.gibb.u

Spring Cloud *: Exploring Alternative Spring Cloud Implementations

In this session we will discuss the Spring Cloud abstractions and interfaces that an implementation might choose to implement: DiscoveryClient, LoadBalancerClient, Configuration and Bus. We will compare and contrast some target technologies and discus the tradeoffs and nuances of each, such as: netflix, consul, etcd, zookeeper and lattice. We will then show and demonstrate Spring Cloud implementations of those technologies