Li Haoyi graduated from MIT, has built infrastructure for high-growth companies like Dropbox and Databricks, and has been a major contributor to the open source community with over 10'000 stars on Github. Haoyi has deep experience in the JVM and has used it professionally to built cloud infrastructure, distributed backend systems, programming languages, high-performance web applications, and much more.

LOCATION: Online
KEYWORDS: Tools, Open Source, Technology, Hands-On

SPEAKER: Haoyi Li   COMPANY: The Mill Build Tool

The Java language is known to be fast, safe, and easy, but Java build tools like Maven or Gradle have a reputation for being slow, fragile, and confusing. This talk will explore what "could be": where current Java build tools fall behind modern build tools in other communities, in performance, extensibility, and ease of getting started.

We will end with a demonstration of an experimental build tool "Mill" that makes use of these ideas, proving out the idea that Java build tooling has the potential to be much faster, safer, and easier than it is today.

LANGUAGE: Talk: en / Slides: en

Li Haoyi graduated from MIT, has built infrastructure for high-growth companies like Dropbox and Databricks, and has been a major contributor to the open source community with over 10'000 stars on Github. Haoyi has deep experience in the JVM and has used it professionally to built cloud infrastructure, distributed backend systems, programming languages, high-performance web applications, and much more.

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