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Changing Power Dynamics: What Senior Engineers Can Learn from Junior Engineers

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Fix SLO Breaches before They Repeat: an SRE AI Agent for Application Workloads

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Have Your Cake and Eat It Too: Meta-Programming Techniques for Java

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Howard Lewis Ship discusses how to add extend class functionality at runtime via meta-programming for Java using Tapestry Plastic.

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Howard Lewis Ship is the creator of the Apache Tapestry project, and is a noted expert on Java framework design and developer productivity. He has over twenty years of full-time software development under his belt, with over ten years of Java. Howard is a frequent speaker at JavaOne, NoFluffJustStuff, ApacheCon and other conferences, and the author of "Tapestry in Action". Twitter: @hlship.

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Software is changing the world; QCon aims to empower software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the enterprise software development community; to achieve this, QCon is organized as a practitioner-driven conference designed for people influencing innovation in their teams: team leads, architects, project managers, engineering directors.

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