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The Secret Life of Maven Central
Tue, 25 April
Maven Central is the most important single service for open source components in the Java Ecosystem, serving 10 billion requests weekly. This talk will cover previously unknown history of Maven Central and how it works under the covers. Finally, we'll look at how the Central team addresses critical security risks like dependency confusion, and how it responded to security events like Log4Shell.
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About the speaker
Jamie Coleman
Senior Developer Advocate, Loqate
Jamie is a Developer Advocate for Loqate formally at IBM & Sonatype, based in the UK. He talks about the importance of security in software, improving developer productivity, data quality AI and raising awareness about energy consumption of technology. Passionate about discovering ways to help reduce developers carbon footprint, he is also a subject matter expert in containerised solutions and build technologies. He fell in love with Java at University and has gone on to talk at many conferences about using Java with microservices and related technologies. He has worked on a wide variety of projects such as modernising IBM CICS mainframe testing infrastructure, creating, and automating the creation of Docker images for IBM’s products and contributing to a DevOps pipeline offering.
