Reza Rahman

Philadelphia

Bio

Reza Rahman is Principal Program Manager for Java on Azure at Microsoft. He works to make sure Java developers are first class citizens at Microsoft and Microsoft is a first class citizen of the Java ecosystem.

Reza has been an official Java technologist at Oracle. He is the author of the popular book EJB 3 in Action from Manning Publishing. Reza has long been a frequent speaker at Java User Groups and conferences worldwide including JakartaOne, DevNexus, and JavaOne. He has been the lead for the Java EE track at JavaOne as well as a JavaOne Rock Star Speaker award recipient. He was the program chair for the inaugural JakartaOne conference. Reza has been a member of the Java EE, EJB, and JMS expert groups over the years. Reza implemented the EJB container for the Resin open source Java EE application server. He is the Microsoft representative to the Jakarta EE and MicroProfile steering committees. He helps lead the Philadelphia Java User Group. Reza is proud to be a founding member of the Jakarta EE Ambassadors.

My Talks

A Freakonomic Take on Open Standards and Jakarta EE

This session aims to crystalize why open standards like Jakarta EE are critically important to you today and in the future. We will explore these concepts in the context of well-established economi...

Cloud Native Java with Open Liberty and OpenShift

In this demo-heavy and mostly slide-free session we will show first-hand how to run Open Liberty on Azure managed OpenShift. We will demo in real time how to stand up a cluster quickly and deploy a...

Effective Kubernetes for Java/Jakarta EE and MicroProfile Developers

This session outlines several key techniques to understand while using Kubernetes with Java EE, Jakarta EE, and MicroProfile applications.

Fundamentals of Diversity and Inclusion for Technologists

This talk introduces the basic concepts of diversity and inclusion using context and examples relevant to technologists. Concepts covered include unconscious bias, privilege, equity, allyship, cove...

Hyperscale Java/Jakarta EE PaaS on Azure

JBoss EAP on Azure App Service is a fully managed Java/Jakarta EE service on a top tier public cloud. In this demo-heavy and mostly slide-free session we will show first-hand how to run JBoss EAP o...

Jakarta EE 11 and Beyond

This session explores the current state and future of Jakarta EE - the technology platform formerly known as Java EE. We will include a high level feature tour of the current version - Jakarta EE 1...

Jakarta NoSQL Powered by Cosmos DB on the Cloud

In this session we will see how to use Jakarta NoSQL with Azure Cosmos DB in cloud native Jakarta EE applications. Most of the session will be demos with a minimal number of slides.

Live Hacking Tour of Java/Jakarta EE on Azure

This slide free session will show you the many ways of deploying a Java/Jakarta EE application to Azure. This includes VMs, PaaS, Docker, and Kubernetes. We will discuss the trade-offs of each appr...

What Comes After Jakarta EE 11?

This talk will guide people on how to begin contributing towards Jakarta EE 12. We will cover ways of contributing, what paperwork is needed as well as the likely possibilities for Jakarta EE 12 in...

Why Java Developers are First-Class Citizens on Azure

This session is a fast-paced tour of all things Java and Azure at the modern Microsoft of today. We will first talk about the why, how and what of Java and Microsoft. We will then dive right into t...

Why You Should Adopt an Open-Source Code of Conduct

This talk explains why projects, communities, events, groups, or even companies should adopt effective Open Source Codes of Conduct such as the Contributor Covenant. This is an essential component ...