Public Speaking
I've had the opportunity to share my thoughts, experiences, and projects over the years in various public speaking engagements, articles, and events. Here’s a look back:
2024
- API Athens Greece Meetup #B4,: Presentation: Designing And Implementing A Capability - Based Platform
- Athens Kubernetes Meetup Vol 22: Presented CELL Platform to the public. CELL Platform: Reimagining Telco Infrastructure, Tech Post here
2023
- Devoxx Greece: Technical session with Red Hat's Georgios Andrianakis on "Battle of the Frameworks: Quarkus vs SpringBoot".
2020 - 2021
- The New Stack: Article - "How Vodafone Greece Built 80 Java Microservices in Quarkus" (2020).
How Vodafone Greece Built 80 Java Microservices in Quarkus
Tossed into a Java world – can you make it back to reactive, event-driven environments and scalable containers?
Alex Handy
- YouTube Live with Red Hat: Discussed software internals at Vodafone Greece during Quarkus insights episode 33 (2021). Video
- InformationWeek Magazine: Interview - "Why Vodafone Greece Devs Migrated to Red Hat's Quarkus" (2020).
Why Vodafone Greece Devs Migrated to Red Hat’s Quarkus | InformationWeek
Changing gears to another framework helped reduce boot times and resource usage, especially during traffic spikes.
Joao-Pierre S. Ruth
- Red Hat Summit: Speaker on Vodafone Greece’s Migration Journey from SpringBoot to Quarkus (2020). Event
- Fireside Chat on YouTube Live: With Red Hat's Dimitris Andreadis (2020). Video
- Red Hat Quarkus Blog: Wrote about Vodafone replacing Spring Boot with Quarkus (2020). Blog
2017
- Athens iOS Meetup: Spoke about Taming Asynchronous Networking Using Promises in Swift 4. Details
- Marketing Week Magazine: Article "Personalization = Mobile" (December 2017).
2016
- Atcom NEXT 2016: Featured in the media (Proto Thema, Marketing Week).
2012
- Global Mobile Awards 2012: "taxiplon" was a finalist.
2007
- Total Hacker Magazine: Honorable mention (July 2007). Featured for FS2_Open (revival of the classic ‘Freespace 2’ Game by Volition Inc).