{"id":34500,"date":"2016-05-18T00:27:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T18:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2thenew.today\/blog\/?p=34500"},"modified":"2016-05-18T09:58:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T04:28:53","slug":"our-experience-through-gids16-in-bengaluru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2thenew.today\/blog\/our-experience-through-gids16-in-bengaluru\/","title":{"rendered":"Our experience through GIDS16 in Bengaluru"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know it\u2019s too late, almost 2 weeks, since the GIDS16 (Great Indian Developer Summit 2016) ended – But the thought that “it\u2019s better to be late than never” is motivating me to write down this post.<\/em><\/p>\n

It was a 5 days event<\/strong> – initial 4 days in Bengaluru and the last day in Pune. We attended day 2, 3 and 4 in Bengaluru. It featured approximately 200 sessions, 114 speakers from around the world, and 30 exhibitors.<\/p>\n

In this post I would like to summarize our overall experience from this event.<\/p>\n

Day 2 – Web and Mobile<\/h5>\n

It was mainly dedicated to the talks on – ES6 (EcmaScript 6), JS patterns, Progressive apps and Angular 2.<\/p>\n

Day 3 – Java and Dynamic Languages<\/h5>\n

It was mainly dedicated to the talks on – Micro-services, Java 8, Groovy eco-system<\/p>\n

Day 4 – Data \/ Analytics<\/h5>\n

It was mainly dedicated to the talks on – Cassandra, Realtime Analytics and Machine Learning<\/p>\n

Most of the sessions we attended were great. But here are few that we liked the most.<\/p>\n

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  1. Hands on with Angular 2 by Scott Davis<\/strong>, where he explained – How Angular 2<\/a> is different from the previous version and the upgrading process is not simple – it\u2019s more like building it up again.<\/li>\n
  2. Redux by Pratik Patel<\/strong>, where he demonstrated – How Redux framework can make the web development simpler as well as fun oriented.<\/li>\n
  3. Progressive web-apps by Shwetank Dixit<\/strong> – The session was very interesting as it was about the new set of browser features and APIs like Service Workers, Background-Sync and web-manifest.<\/li>\n
  4. Java 8 Lambdas by Marty Hall<\/strong> – Another interesting session where Marty showed the importance of Java 8 (through Lambdas) over the previous versions and strongly recommended to switch to the newer version sooner.<\/li>\n
  5. Advance JS for Java Devs by Pratik Patel<\/strong> – It was a fast paced session meant to bring the audience up to the speed with the latest and greatest JavaScript techniques and tools. Pratik talked about the code modularity, parasitic inheritance, common pitfalls and best practices of JavaScript.<\/li>\n
  6. Groovy by Paul King<\/strong> – The session was very informative (esp. for the beginners). Paul gave an overview of Groovy and ecosystem using it\u2019s cool features like DSL, Closures, dynamic typing, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Moreover, there were few sessions that we couldn’t attend but received a very positive feedback from some other attendees.<\/p>\n