Holly Cummins is a Senior Principal Software Engineer on the Red Hat Quarkus team. Before joining Red Hat, Holly was a long time IBMer. In her time at IBM, Holly has been a full-stack javascript developer, a WebSphere Liberty build architect, a client-facing consultant, a JVM performance engineer, and an innovation leader. During her time in the IBM Garage, Holly led projects for enormous banks, tiny startups, and everything in between. Holly has used the power of cloud to understand climate risks, count fish, help a blind athlete run ultra-marathons in the desert solo, and invent stories (although not at all the same time). Holly is also a Java Champion, author, and regular keynote speaker. You can follow her on twitter at @holly_cummins or at hollycummins.com.
Talks I've Given
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Uh, Does This Thing Actually Work? Modern Microservices Testing
Featuring Holly Cummins
This talk discusses microservices testing strategies and explores some of the modern tools which make testing easier and better.
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: Cloud Surprises for the Java Developer
Featuring Holly Cummins
The Cloud. Everyone’s either already there or moving there. What makes the cloud so desirable? … And what can go wrong on the journey there? (Short version: monsters with big teeth. Longer version: Security, elasticity, the long leg of the legacy, business processes, portability, price models,...
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Keynote: Cloud Native Is About Culture, Not Containers
Featuring Holly Cummins
As a developer in IBM's Cloud Garage, Holly works with customers who are trying to shift their businesses to the cloud, and to cloud native in particular. Their dream is more effort higher up the value chain, more innovation, and greater adaptability. What they really want is to beat their...
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Confessions of an Automation Addict
Featuring Holly Cummins
I've never seen a job I didn't want to automate. Sometimes it's worked out well, sometimes automation has turned a small nuisance into a big, fragile, free-time-eating monster nuisance. In this talk, I'll explore why we automate, when to automate, the hazards of automation and the...
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The Lazy Developer's Guide to Cloud Foundry
Featuring Holly Cummins
These days, it seems everyone is either using the Cloud Foundry PaaS or moving to support it. What's the big deal? Cloud Foundry is all about the slopey-shouldering of work to someone else - no more installing middleware, sorting out databases, and banging heads against complex deployments....
java cloudfoundry cloud paas