Description

Foojay community members and beyond discuss embedded Java:

• James Gosling, creator of Java and embedded enthusiast. Distinguished engineer of AWS GreenGrass and former Liquid Robotics, an autonomous ocean vehicle powered by water.
• Frank Delporte, engineer with Toadi, an autonomous lawn-mowing robot (no wires) and Pi4J contributor of Raspberry-pi based robots.
• Johan Vos, founder of Gluon, helping make fully cross-platform applications where a single JavaFX codebase runs natively on embedded, iOS, Android, PCs, and browsers.
• Erik Costlow, developer relations for Contrast Security, locating security flaws in backend systems. Developer of home fuel/gas sensors.

Topics:

• Java in Education: Combining Java with Rasperry Pi and the Pi4J Library
• Discussion topics including:
  • How Java was used in the ocean and how it makes complex problems possible.
  • The speed of garbage collectors versus the speed of shark attacks (GC wins).
  • Quick prototypes with Raspberry Pi, scaling through AWS GreenGrass.