Last year I went to several conferences, one about JavaScript and at least two about Java. Unfortunately, the last conference was rather boring since at every Java conference they are talking about the same cool Java 8 and Java 9 stuff, for example project Jig-Saw or Lambda expressions. After listening to several “Java User Group” talks and attending one Java conference there will not be a lot of new content in another three-day conference. In my opinion this is sad and I decided this year to go to more specialised conferences.

What is BeeCon

Started back in 2016, BeeCon is the developer conference of the Alfresco community (the people not the edition). The event is organised by “Order of The Bee” which coordinates the main community contributors and actors. A big presence of Alfresco engineers and specialists acknowledges the seriousness of this endeavour. Last year the convention took place in Brussels, and this year it was located in the wonderful city of Zaragoza.

I found this experience really nice – to be able to get some insights on how people have solved big issues and how they got pwned.  What is more, it was good to see that I am personally going in the right direction (or at least, let’s say, getting on the trends)

These are technologies and trends that got my attention as the most used:

•  Technologies/languages/tools:
  • Go
  • ELK
  • Luigi/Airflow – Tools for pipelining jobs
  • Redis
  • Hadoop
  • Kafka
  • Java 9
• Trends:
  • Data Science
    •  Machine learning for prediction and fraud detection
  • Microservices
    • NodeJS

I chose to follow two main paths, with some extra things from here and there: Machine Learning/Data science, Microservices, and let’s call it “miscellaneous”. Below, an overview of the most interesting things:

Any similarities to actual projects, real or ficticious is merely coincidental and the product of a feverish imagination… or not.

Every of us have that moment when you discovered that the thing you never heard about it, it must have been done yesterday.

That is the time you remember all the cool things that can be done with svg. And of course with jQuery. Yes I know nowadays the use of jQuery on production environment is a sin. But who save your bacon 10 years ago. Old sins never go out of style.

This article is about how to make an interactive map in 8 steps.

Over the last few months Apache Kafka gained a lot of traction in the industry and more and more companies explore how to effectively use Kafka in their production environments.

If you are not familiar with Apache Kafka, I recommend reading this excellent introduction (http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#introduction). To give you a quick overview here are the core principles: