The Spring BOF

BOF (Bird of a Feather)

Server Side Java
Room 3 (Sabre)	Wednesday from 19:30 til 20:30
An opportunity for discussing Spring Framework 5, Spring Boot 2, Spring Cloud, Project Reactor and everything around... as well as JDK 9 and Java EE 8 from a Spring perspective. Spring BOF Spring 5 Spring Boot Spring Cloud Reactor

Juergen Hoeller
Juergen Hoeller is co-founder of the Spring Framework open source project and has been serving as the project lead and release manager for the core framework since 2003. Juergen is an experienced software architect and consultant with outstanding expertise in code organization, transaction management and enterprise messaging.
Josh Long
Josh (@starbuxman) is the Spring Developer Advocate at Pivotal. Josh is a Java Champion, author of 5 books (including O'Reilly's upcoming Cloud Native Java: Designing Resilient Systems with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Cloud Foundry) and 3 best-selling video trainings (including Building Microservices with Spring Boot Livelessons with Spring Boot co-founder Phil Webb), and an open-source contributor (Spring Boot, Spring Integration, Spring Cloud, Activiti and Vaadin)
Kenny Bastani
Kenny Bastani is a Spring Developer Advocate at Pivotal. As a blogger and open source contributor, Kenny engages a community of passionate developers on topics ranging from graph databases to microservices. Kenny is a co-author of the O’Reilly book Cloud Native Java: Designing Resilient Systems with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Cloud Foundry.
Marcin Grzejszczak
Open source contributor. Author of Mockito books. Making Spring Cloud Contract / Sleuth / Pipelines @Pivotal
Mark Paluch
I'm a Software craftsman, Spring Data Engineer at Pivotal, and a member of the CDI 2.0 expert group. I was developing Java server-, frontend-, and web applications since 1999 and my focus is now on software architecture, Spring, and Redis.
Matt Stine
Matt Stine is a 17 year veteran of the enterprise IT industry, with eight of those years spent as a consulting solutions architect for multiple Fortune 500 companies. He is the author of Migrating to Cloud-Native Application Architectures from O’Reilly, and the host of the Software Architecture Radio podcast. He is currently the product owner for Spring at Pivotal, and spends much of his time driving an active feedback loop between the Spring R&D organization and customers developing cloud-native application architectures.