Technology Advisory Board Minutes - November 10, 2021

Board Members In Attendance

• Jason Schindler – Object Computing Inc., Partner and Groovy, Grails, and Micronaut Team Manager
• Graeme Rocher – Micronaut Foundation, co-founder and Director; Oracle, Architect
• Ken Sipe – Edward Jones, Department Leader – Application and Technology Architecture
• Yuriy Artamonov – JetBrains, Microservices Fellow
• Mark Sailes – Amazon, Specialist Solution Architect for Serverless at AWS Cloud

Board Members Not In Attendance

• James Kleeh – Object Computing,Inc., Micronaut Development Lead
• Neal Ford – ThoughtWorks, Director, Cloud Architect
• Zhamak Dehghani – ThoughtWorks, Principal Consultant
• Venkat Subramaniam – Agile Developer Inc., Founder
• Guillaume LaForge – Google, Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform
• Bruno Borges – Microsoft, Principal Product Manager for Java

Others In Attendance

• Jen Wiese – Micronaut Foundation, Community Engagement Manager

Meeting led by

• Jen Wiese

Agenda

• Welcome
• Introduce New TAB Members
• Foundation Sponsor Updates
• Community Updates
• Tech Talk
• Open Discussion

Introduce New TAB Members (Jen)

• Jason Schindler – Object Computing Inc., Partner and Groovy, Grails, and Micronaut Team Manager
• Mark Sailes – Amazon, Specialist Solution Architect for Serverless at AWS Cloud

Foundation Sponsor Updates (Jen)

• Safri.Net new corporate sponsor
• Another corporate sponsor to be announced soon

Community Updates (Jen)

• Working with Packt publishing and the authors of the new Micronaut book
  • Expect that to be released before the end of the year
  • Forward by the Micronaut Foundation
• Excited about recent investment in the Foundation with the Developer Advocate role that Sergio is filling
  • Representing developer interests while engaging with our communities to advocate for the Micronaut framework
    • Launched a Microanut Podcast (twice a month)
    • Micronaut Live: Live application demos on Twitch (twice a week); episodes build upon each other; end with a complete application
    • Dedicated Micronaut YouTube Channel for all of the on-demand content for the community
    • Ramping back up our Microcasts, short, on-demand technical tutorials; starting out with a series of introductory content
    • Expecting to see more technical content published in blog posts/guides to help support our user community
    • Continue to deliver live public webinars and private tech talks for clients
    • Continue to deliver live, public and private training courses and events
      • Receive requests for these events regularly
      • Just completed a 12-hour (4 morning) public, online training event with 30 participants!

Tech Talk (Graeme)

• Happy with the strength of community contributions, especially around MQTT and Pulsar
• Roadmap
  • Pulsar integration finished
  • Compiler optimizations
  • X509
  • In progress
    • CDI Lite
    • Build plugins based on GraalVM Official
  • Some progress
    • Native Kotlin Compiler (KSP)
  • Cloud portability enabling
• Breaking changes in transitive dependencies – topic from last quarter’s meeting
  • Stability is a priority
    • Upgrading to a minor release should be a low-risk task
• Live development-time reloading – topic from last quarter’s meeting
  • Still in review; will bring it up to discuss again in the next meeting

Open Discussion (All)

• Want to do more with tracking improvements on performance and code changes
  • Benchmarking (regression)
  • Test changes (start up time)
• Definitely a time for awareness to be heightened on the Micronaut framework; seems that people are evaluating technology and tools
  • Increase in visibility of microservices in the market today
• Next meeting will be Q1 2022 (look at starting around 9 a.m. CT)