Going Reactive: What You Need to Know to Quickly and Easily Build Resilient, Elastic and Responsive Applications

Your business - and your users - want you to build responsive, resilient and elastic (aka Reactive) applications. So how should you get started?

Over the last few years, the word Reactive has become overloaded - with Reactive programming, Reactive systems and various tools that claim to be Reactive. In this Webinar by O'Reilly author, Reactive expert and veteran developer, Hugh McKee, we demystify the Reactive world for you. Over 45 minutes, Hugh will

* explain what Reactive means,
* how going Reactive accelerates developer productivity and
* how Reactive systems offer productivity for architects and DevOps practitioners at the system level for building cloud native and other large-scale distributed systems.

Hugh will also demo sample applications, field your questions and discuss how you can get started quickly and easily on your Reactive journey with IBM Reactive Platform.

Speakers:

Hugh McKee is a Developer Advocate at Lightbend, Inc. He has had a long career building applications that evolved slowly, that inefficiently utilized their infrastructure, and were brittle and prone to failure. That all changed when he started building reactive, asynchronous, actor-based systems. This radically new way of building applications rocked his world. As an added benefit, building application systems became way more fun than it had ever been. Now he is focused on helping others to discover the significant advantages and joys of building responsive, resilient, elastic, message-driven applications.

Lowell Soffer is the Worldwide Business Unit Executive for Application Platform client success. He specializes in developing and executing strategic, technical and business strategies to drive new business and digital transformation. Lowell has extensive experience in software sales and deployments for Hybrid Cloud Integration, application runtimes, and microservices.

Michael C. Thompson is Architect and Offering Manager for the WebSphere Application Server ND. Michael has 15 years industry experience, working with IBM Austin for 12 years. Michael has contributed to numerous software projects and products, including the Linux kernel and WebSphere Application Server, with a deep interest in the areas of security and management. A firm believer in quality practices, Michael has taught and applied Agile, test driven development (TDD), functional and unit test practices and methodologies. Michael holds a B.S. Computer Science from Clarkson University in New York.