Spencer Gibb

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Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:27:08 -0700

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Spencer Gibb

Ann Arbor, Michigan Mobile: 801-540-5830
spencer at gibb.tech
@spencerbgibb X
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Skills

Java tech (Spring, Scala, Hibernate, JPA, Maven, Swing, Ant, GWT, JEE, JSE)
Web tech (nodejs, HTML, CSS, JS, Rest)
Large-scale distributed systems
NoSQL and SQL databases
Working in cross-functional teams
Unit and integration testing
Team leadership
Full product life cycle
Functional requirements
Mentoring junior co-workers

Professional Experience

R & D ENGINEER SOFTWARE, Broadcom, Palo Alto CA (Remote)
Jun 2014 – Present
(NOTE: formerly Pivotal & VMware)

API Toolbox with Spring

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 11:17:05 -0400

I had a great time delivering “API Toolbox with Spring” at Devnexus.

What's On My Desk?

Mon, 30 Dec 2024 00:00:05 -0600

During my time off at the end of the year, I was able to take some time and organize my desk in my new office. I’ve wanted to write about my workspace for a while and now’s as good a time as any.

What's New In Spring

Tue, 04 Jun 2024 02:17:05 -0400

I had a great time at JNation 2024 speaking about “What’s New In Spring: 2023/2024 Edition”.

Confoo Montreal 2024

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 14:57:50 -0500

In February, I had the priviledge of attending ConFoo. It was my first time visiting Montreal Quebec. I had a great time.

API Toolbox with Spring

Thu, 22 Feb 2024 11:17:05 -0400

I had a great time at ConFoo 2024 speaking about “API Toolbox with Spring”.

What's New In Spring

Wed, 21 Feb 2024 14:17:05 -0400

I had a great time at ConFoo 2024 speaking about “What’s New In Spring: 2023/2024 Edition”.

It's Time to Start Writing Again

Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:00:05 -0600

Hi 👋🏻, it’s been a while. My last blog post was from 2017 😬, whoops. It’s time to start writing again. Here are my thoughts on things I would like to write about.

There is Only Zuul

Tue, 02 May 2017 11:17:05 -0600

I had a great time at OSCON Austin speaking about API Gateways: Netflix Zuul and Spring Cloud Gateway.

The API Gateway is Dead! Long Live the API Gateway!

Tue, 21 Mar 2017 18:00:00 -0500

The API Gateway is Dead! Long Live the API Gateway!

Wed, 22 Feb 2017 18:00:00 -0500

Chelsea High School Career Talk

Wed, 21 Sep 2016 12:00:00 -0500

I had the great privilege to speak to students at Chelsea High School in Michigan about my company and what it is like to work there.

Spring Cloud with Consul and Vault

Tue, 02 Aug 2016 17:00:00 -0800

I had a great time at SpringOne Platform speaking about using Consul for discovery and configuration and Vault as a configuration source.

Spring Cloud *: Exploring Spring Cloud Implementations

Wed, 18 May 2016 14:00:00 +0100

I was invited to speak about comparing different Discovery and Configuration Implementations in Spring Cloud at Spring I/O in beautiful Barcelona!

Spring Cloud *: Exploring Spring Cloud Implementations

Fri, 22 Apr 2016 12:45:00 +0100

I was invited to speak about different Discovery and Configuration Implementations in Spring Cloud at Devoxx France in beautiful Paris!

Spring Cloud *: Exploring Alternative Spring Cloud Implementations

Wed, 17 Feb 2016 14:30:00 -0400

I was invited to speak about different Discovery and Configuration Implementations in Spring Cloud at the fabulous Devnexus Conference run by the Atlanta Java User Group.

Cloud Discovery and Configuration Mechanisms

Sat, 06 Feb 2016 09:17:30 -0600

I was invited to speak and lead a discussion about different Cloud Discovery and Configuration Mechanisms at the Utah Software Architecture Meetup. Good pizza and discussion were had.

Cloud Native Apps with Spring Cloud - UJUG

Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:54:01 -0600

scs training 2015

Mon, 02 Nov 2015 17:36:23 -0700

Trello for Feelings

Tue, 06 Oct 2015 09:07:07 -0600

Computer geeks often don’t know how to express their feelings very well. If The Nerd Handbook rings a bell for you or your significant other, you know what I’m talking about. It rang true with me. The trouble I have is how to deal with someone else’s feelings and figure out what the heck mine are. I had a thought the other day and so far it has helped.

Spring Cloud *: SpringOne 2GX 2015

Sun, 27 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0600

Spring Cloud Config Push Notifications

Thu, 24 Sep 2015 10:48:18 -0600

This commit (8d8e07a78) by Dave Syer in spring-cloud-config added support for push notifications to config clients.

Spring Cloud DCJUG

Fri, 18 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0600

Microservices with Spring Cloud and Netflix OSS

Wed, 01 Jul 2015 15:54:01 -0600

Spring Cloud Devnexus Notes

Wed, 11 Mar 2015 09:45:06 -0700

Monolithic vs Microservices

Easy/Hard vs Simple/Complex
Monolithic
- Complex / Easy
- Language / Framework modularity
- Fewer scaling vectors
- Long-term commitment to tech stack
- coupled changes make harder deploys
- hard to scale dev
Microservice
- Simple / Hard
- for continuous delivery
- 12 factor apps
- diversity of clients (mobile, desktop, devices)
- modularity based on services
- uncoupled changes enable frequent deploys
- more scaling vectors
- dev friendly
- easier to scale dev
- no long term commitment to tech stack

Microservices with Spring Boot

partition strategies
- Noun (product info service)
- Verb (shipping service)
- Single Responsibility Principle
- Bounded Context
Polyglot persistence
Unix pipes and filters
Choreography vs Orchestration

No Man (Microservice) is an Island

No free lunch
- Ops overhead
- Substantial Devops Skills required
- Implicit interfaces
- Duplication of effort
- Distributed System complexity
- Asynchronicity is difficult
- Testability chalenges

Spring CLI Support http command is from httpie.org

Cloud Native Apps with Spring Cloud

Mon, 09 Mar 2015 15:54:01 -0600

go hugo

Tue, 03 Mar 2015 15:45:06 -0700

I’ve migrated my blog from octopress to hugo by Steve Francia.

license

Tue, 03 Mar 2015 15:21:38 -0700

Introducing Battleschool

Mon, 03 Feb 2014 23:18:53 -0700

I’ve been on an Ansible kick recently at work (domo). While working on a project, I started creating a simple workstation setup playbook. I got to thinking that someone must have done this already. I remembered boxen by github.

What follows is my journey to the creation of a tool called battleschool.

New Blog

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:58:47 -0700

Welcome to me new blog. I’ve wanted to post more than just snippets to twitter. I want to write about my experiences with Dropwizard, Amazon web services, Cassandra, MongoDB, Netflix OSS, and Halfpipe