Grace Jansen
Biography
Grace is a Developer Advocate at IBM, working with Open Liberty, MicroProfile and Cloud Technologies. She has been with IBM since graduating from Exeter University with a Degree in Biology. Grace enjoys bringing a varied perspective to her projects and using her knowledge of biological systems to simplify complex software patterns and architectures. As a developer advocate, Grace builds POC’s, demos and sample applications, and writes guides and tutorials. She is a regular presenter at international technology conferences and has recently authored a book on reactive systems. Grace also has a keen passion for encouraging more women into STEM and especially Technology careers.
Mother Nature vs Java - the security face off
Mother Nature has had millenia to build up it’s defences to the many potential hazards and attacks it may face. So given it’s wisdom and expertise on this subject, what can we as software developers learn from it and bring back to the evolution of our own application’s security? In this session we’ll explore where software and biology overlap when it comes to security and lessons we can learn from nature to improve our own application security.
Exploring Stateful Microservices in the Cloud Native World
While stateless systems are easier to architect, design, and implement, the truth of the matter is that we live in a stateful world in which we need to keep track of the state of data in a lot of cases. So how can we handle persisting data with containerized microservices in a Cloud Native world?
