ApacheCon 2016

Paypal shutting down Stackmob in 2014 had developers flocking to Parse. Facebook shutting down Parse in 2016 left developers angry and left their apps serverless, and not in a good way. Lock-in is bad enough, but what happens when you get locked out. 

In this presentation, we will discuss Apache Usergrid, the most scalable and trusted Backend as a Service (BaaS), and the one you should consider for your next app, whether it be mobile, desktop or wearable. First, we'll discuss why an open source is BaaS is the ONLY long term viable solution for developers. Then we'll discuss how Usergrid is architected to give its scalability and graph database properties. Finally, we'll go over real-world use cases and explain how Usergrid is used by major retailers and other organizations.

Java containers appeared back in the era of big expensive hardware and monolithic applications, and currently feel like an impediment to Java progress. More and more people opt out of containers in favor of runnable jars, especially with the advance of microservices architectures. Andrus Adamchik will present a new open source tool called Bootique (https://github.com/nhl/bootique), a pluggable and extensible technology intended for various kinds of container-less Java apps - REST services, webapps, job runners, desktop apps and what not.

The ASF is amazing. It's why we're here. In fact. However, we all often face frustrations with the software we use to build the software we dream about.

We, as committers, members, and contributors to the great software made at the ASF, can change that. We have commit bit. We have permission. All we need now, is time and attention.

Where better to align both of those than at ApacheCon!

Join your friends here at ApacheCon to Upgrade Our Apache by learning what's needed, finding those mysterious repos that power our collective consciousness, and getting down to work on the future of the ASF's own software stack.

The Apache Release Audit Tool (RAT) performs software open source license auditing, however RAT fails to successfully audit large code bases. Being a natural language processing tool and a crawler, RAT marches through a code base, but uses rudimentary black lists and white lists to navigate source code repositories, and often does a poor job of identifying source code versus binary files. We introduce Distributed "RAT" (DRAT). DRAT overcomes RAT's limitations by leveraging: (1) Apache Tika to automatically detect and classify files in source code repositories and determine what is a binary file; what is source code; what are notes that need skipping, etc. (2) Apache Solr to interactively perform analytics on a code repository and to extract metadata using Apache Tika; and finally (3) Apache OODT to run RAT on per-MIME type and per configurable K-file sized chunks in a MapReduce workflow.