Richard Fichtner
Principal Software Architect / CEO at XDEV Software GmbH
Principal Software Architekt / CEO at XDEV Software GmbH
Weiden, Germany
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ichard Fichtner is the Principal Software Architect at XDEV Software GmbH, with over 20 years of experience in the software industry. He works at the intersection of business and technology, contributing to the open-source community through projects like RapidClipse (https://www.rapidclipse.com) and advocating for best practices in Apache Maven. Richard is passionate about sharing knowledge on Java technologies, making him a frequent conference speaker.
He leads the Java User Group Oberpfalz, co-organizes the JCON conferences (https://jcon.one), and has been recognized as a Java Champion, Oracle ACE Pro, IBM Champion and Vaadin Champion. With a Master of Science in Applied Computer Science, his expertise spans Java, clean code, cloud technologies, and pragmatic development practices, focusing on improving developer productivity through cloud solutions.
Richard enjoys relaxing by a campfire and listening to/playing country music in his spare time.
Richard Fichtner ist Principal Software Architect bei der XDEV Software GmbH und verfügt über mehr als 20 Jahre Erfahrung in der Softwarebranche. Er arbeitet an der Schnittstelle zwischen Wirtschaft und Technologie, trägt zur Open-Source-Community durch Projekte wie RapidClipse (https://www.rapidclipse.com) bei und setzt sich für Best Practices in Apache Maven ein. Richard gibt sein Wissen über Java-Technologien leidenschaftlich gerne weiter, weshalb er häufig auf Konferenzen spricht.
Er leitet die Java User Group Oberpfalz, ist Mitorganisator der JCON-Konferenzen (https://jcon.one) und wurde als Java Champion, Oracle ACE Pro, IBM Champion und Vaadin Champion ausgezeichnet. Mit einem Master of Science in Angewandter Informatik umfasst sein Fachwissen Java, Clean Code, Cloud-Technologien und pragmatische Entwicklungspraktiken und konzentriert sich auf die Verbesserung der Entwicklerproduktivität durch Cloud-Lösungen.
In seiner Freizeit entspannt sich Richard gerne am Lagerfeuer und hört/spielt Country-Musik.
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Java Today: A Live Demo Exploration of Modern Features and Ecosystem Changes en
Java has changed rapidly in the last few years. Java 8 was an important milestone, but it was only the start of the journey. If you are not using a current version of Java, you are missing out on many benefits, from runtime performance to developer productivity. It was not only Java that changed a lot, but the ecosystem also changed. With new runtimes and features, Java is a first-class choice for serverless use cases that improve sustainability and reduce costs by dynamically adjusting infrastructure to demand. Experience the transformative changes in Java with live demos showcasing the current capabilities of the Java ecosystem and how these impact the usage of Java in your projects today.
Apache Maven Plugins you want in your build today! #no-commercial-tools en
One of Apache Maven's biggest strengths is the massive amount of available and ready-to-use plugins. For almost everything you can think of - there is a plugin. This talk shows using live coding / building, which plugins have proven to be a great addition to our day-to-day projects.
Some highlighted plugins and extensions are the Modernizer Maven Plugin, the Policeman's Forbidden API Checker, the Maven Build Cache, and the Maven BuildTime Profiler. These tools will help you to increase developer productivity, make the build more secure and improve the overall performance of the build.
You will learn how to use these tools to improve your Maven builds and ensure code quality. Finally, you will leave this talk git-repo that includes all the steps and commands shown in the talk, so you can easily add the plugins to your projects today!
Java Reborn: Write Kindergarten-Code and get high-performance apps en
28 years after its first release Java is reborn to adapt itself to a changed world. The evolution of Java is totally different than I imagined.
Join me and discover how features like VirtualThreads allow us to write code like in Java 101 and get high-performance apps at the same time. Unlearn reactive programming and object-relational mapping to come back to the beautiful beginning of Java. Use standard data structures like List and Map to model your data. Find joy again in debugging and reading stacktraces. Get rid of the fear that you might block a Thread.
You can use the techniques shown in this talk today, to improve developer productivity and make your project's code easy to write, understand, troubleshoot and maintain.
Scale to Zero with Java and save the planet (and money) en
Java applications are widely used and often several years old. You can use these applications in the cloud via lift-and-shift (helps nothing) or you can rewrite the application in cloud-native style and use the advantages of the cloud.
An alternative for existing applications is missing here. It must be possible to go to the cloud and use advantages such as serverless and scale-to-zero WITHOUT having to rewrite the entire application.
I will show what is already working well today and where the rough edges are. In the session, we'll move an existing application to the cloud and save over 70% of operating and maintenance costs with serverless and scale-to-zero.
The Ultimate Software Development Practitioner Productivity Guide en
It’s no secret that the most successful people in the software development industry tend to be the most productive. Whether it’s writing code, testing, building databases, administering systems, or helping teams perform their best, it pays to use your time effectively. That means enabling yourself to perform deep work, choosing to work on the right things, ensuring that unnecessary time isn’t wasted, and that common tasks have as little friction as possible. In order to do this, you need some sort of process, and you need tools. In this talk, two industry veterans discuss productivity methodologies such as Getting Things Done and the Pomodoro technique as well as several different mobile, desktop, and web apps that will help you maximize your productivity.
Break free from maintenance hell with Clean Code en
If you ever had to find the bug late night and asked yourself how to do it better next time. See this talk and find out you are not alone and there are even worse things to discover. See what you can do today to create a better world for future-you :) Spoiler Alert: some examples will make you laugh and then cry :)
Robert C. Martin coined the term "Clean Code" in his eponymous book for software development. But what is clean code and what does this have to do with the maintainability of software? In this talk, you will find practical examples of how small improvements in "code cleanliness" can have very positive effects on the maintainability of your software. Using examples from more than 15 years of project experience, you will learn techniques that you can still use today in your code.
Full Stack Java - building a web app incl. persistence with plain Java en
Full Stack Developer usually means you know how to build a web app with HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Angular, React, TypeScript, Java, SQL, NoSQL and many cloud services. That's great, but also a lot of stuff to know and keep up with.
I propose a different solution: Why don't we work just with Java?
Focusing on one part of that stack should allow us to master that part and be more productive. Also, maintenance and onboarding new team members to such a project should be easier. Join me and learn how to build enterprise-ready web apps with supported open-source frameworks with just basic Java knowledge.
Apache Maven survival guide “Bring it on! -Mode” #no-external-tools #only-standard-plugins en
In many projects, Apache Maven is used and does some stuff - who knows what? In this session, we will pack the best practices from over 10 years of projects into a pom.xml. And you will know what it does and why it's there. Using practical examples, we will look at how to:
* solve problems in the build
* make the build reproducible
* find security issues in the code
* find security issues in the build
* make the legal department happy
* make the build faster
* reduce the cost of the build
* emit less CO2
We can do all of this without commercial or additional products - only with Maven standard plugins.
Praxisbericht BYLES: Wie Java, Standards und Community ein Bildungsprojekt gerettet haben de
Wie entwickelt man mit einem kleinen Team, eine hochskalierbare und sichere Plattform für über 180.000 Grundschulkinder – und das unter höchsten Datenschutzanforderungen? Die Antwort: Mit moderner Java-Technologie, einem starken Open-Source-Ökosystem und einer Community, die zusammenhält.
In diesem Erfahrungsbericht geben Stefan Böhringer (Universität Regensburg) und Richard Fichtner (XDEV Software GmbH) Einblicke in das Projekt BYLES, das größte digitale Lesescreening Deutschlands. Sie zeigen, wie mit Quarkus, Jakarta EE und Keycloak eine robuste, wartbare Lösung entstand – ganz ohne Reactive-Overhead, dafür mit pragmatischem, verständlichem Java-Code.
Sie nehmen aus dem Talk mit:
Wie Sie Projekte mit modernem Java sicher und skalierbar aufsetzen – selbst mit kleinem Team.
Wie Java-Projekte durch starke Communities (JUGs!) und Buddy-Ansätze wachsen können.
Warum Standards oft besser skalieren als „Hype“.
Wie pragmatische Technologieentscheidungen echte Probleme lösen.
Ein Talk für alle, die echte Projekte meistern müssen – nicht nur auf der grünen Wiese, sondern im echten Leben.
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Duke Turns 30 Celebrating 30 Year of Java
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Hosted at Oracle Frankfurt
Richard Fichtner
Principal Software Architect / CEO at XDEV Software GmbH
Weiden, Germany
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