2013-10-10
Java Magazin article and Fall 2013 speaking tour
I have been giving talks about Continuous Delivery over the last three years. During these talks, I have had the chance to meet lots of interesting people with whom I had many great conversations.
While talks are great as you can interact and really get the message out, they do have one problem: reach. You simply can't pack 20,000 people in one room. I was therefore delighted when Claudia Fröhling, the editor-in-chief of Java Magazin, asked me to write the leading article for their upcoming Continuous Delivery issue. Java Magazin is Europe's largest print magazine about Java and therefore a great platform to spread the word!
The issue finally got published this week:
It contains both my article titled "Architecting for Continuous Delivery" and an interview with me as author of the month. The iPad edition also contains a video of my Continuous Delivery talk at JAX 2013 in Mainz.
So if you speak German, are interested in Continuous Delivery and haven't had a chance to attend one of my talks yet, make sure to check it out!
Conference speaking tour Fall 2013
I started this year with a spring speaking tour which took me to 33rd Degree in Warsaw, Devoxx FR in Paris, Confess in Vienna and finally JAX in Mainz. It was great fun and a good chance to flex my language muscles, as I gave talks in French, German and English.
After the summer break, the conference season has kicked in again. My speaking tour for the fall 2013 already took me to Oslo for a Flyway talk at JavaZone, and to Göttingen for a sold-out Continuous Delivery workshop.
I'm in Kiev in the Ukraine this week, as I will giving the keynote at the XP Days conference, as well as giving a Flyway talk later that day. After that in November, I will in Munich for W-JAX, before heading to Antwerp for Devoxx and finally to Gothenburg, where I will return to jDays.
I will then be giving a final talk for this year at the Lightweight Java User Group in Munich to round things off.
If you are at any of these events, come and say hello! I'd love to have a chat with you!
About Axel Fontaine
I'm an entrepreneur, public speaker and software development expert based in Munich.
I'm the creator of Sprinters. Sprinters lets you run your GitHub Actions jobs 10x cheaper on your own AWS account with secure, ephemeral, high-performance, low-cost runners within the privacy of your own VPC.
I also created CloudCaptain, previously known as Boxfuse. CloudCaptain is a cloud deployment platform enabling small and medium size companies to focus on development, while it takes care of infrastructure and operations.
Back in 2010, I bootstrapped Flyway, and grew it into the world's most popular database migration tool. Starting late 2017, I expanded the project beyond its open-source roots into a highly profitable business, acquiring many of the world's largest companies and public institutions as customers. After two years of exponential growth, I sold the company to Redgate in 2019.
In the past I also spoke regularly at many large international conferences including JavaOne, Devoxx, Jfokus, JavaZone, JAX and more about a wide range of topics including modular monoliths, immutable infrastructure and continuous delivery. As part of this I received the JavaOne RockStar speaker award. As a recognition for my contributions to overall Java industry, Oracle awarded me the Java Champion title.
You can find me on 𝕏 as @axelfontaine and email me at axel@axelfontaine.com