Brian Demers
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| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Testing on Thin Ice: Chipping Away at Test Unpredictability | DPE Summit 2025 | 2025-09-23 |
Claims that flaky tests cost $36 billion wasted yearly, shows cases where fixed sleeps, unique-constraint collisions, CI load and parallel runs cause… | ||
| Your Toolchain is Production: The Case for Observability | DPE Summit 2025 | 2025-09-23 |
Argument states the developer toolchain is a production system and needs the same observability as customer-facing services: logs, metrics, traces to diagnose… | ||
| SBOMs Are Not Enough | JCON EUROPE 2025 | 2025-05-12 |
SBOMs list components but often miss the build context that matters: CI plugins, compiler and annotation‑processor versions, test‑scope dependencies, and which… | ||
| Developer Productivity Engineering: What's in it for Java Developers? | JCON EUROPE 2024 | 2024-05-13 |
Developer productivity engineering focuses on practical fixes: enable local and remote build cache (Spring Boot sees 63% build time saved), add predictive test… | ||
| Testing on Thin Ice: Chipping Away at Test Unpredictability | JCON EUROPE 2024 | 2024-05-13 |
Flaky tests cost an estimated 36 billion USD yearly and the talk shows concrete fixes: use Maven/Gradle retry plugin to detect flakes, push results into a… | ||
| Apache Maven 102: Best Practices | JCON EUROPE 2024 | 2024-05-13 |
Maven advice that actually changes builds: prefer pinned Maven and Java versions with the Maven Wrapper and sdkman, avoid dependency ranges because they make… | ||
| Security and Productivity Pick Two with Reproducible Builds | JCON WORLD ONLINE 2023 | 2023-11-20 |
Reproducible builds guarantee identical output bits from the same source so hashes match, letting teams verify CI artifacts by rebuilding locally and comparing… | ||
| Testing is Confidence - A Developer's Perspective | JCON Europe 2023 | 2023-06-20 |
Argues that tests deliver measurable confidence by catching regressions early and keeping developers in the flow, with concrete fixes: use reproducible builds… | ||
| How to report a vulnerability: Responsible Disclosure for Developers | JCON Europe 2023 | 2023-06-20 |
Vulnerability reporting requires concrete steps: CVE volume climbs to about 80 per day, so private, coordinated reporting and short embargoes matter. The… | ||
| Lock That Sh*t Down! | Devnexus 2022 | 2022-04-12 |
Practical rules and concrete tools: prefer OAuth 2.1 + PKCE and OpenID Connect with MFA over implicit or password grants, avoid rolling your own JWT schemes… | ||
| Lock That Sh*t Down! Auth Security Patterns for Apps, APIs, and Infra | Joker 2021 | 2021-10-25 |
Checklist of concrete, actionable choices: avoid HTTP Basic, form-based widgets, SAML for new apps; favor OAuth 2.1 + PKCE, OpenID Connect, short‑lived tokens… | ||
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