Jim Gough
Executive Director and Developer, Morgan Stanley

James (Jim) Gough is an executive director and developer at Morgan Stanley, where he’s focused on building customer-facing technology. A Java developer and author, Jim first became interested in Java during his degree program at the University of Warwick; after graduating, he became a member of the London Java Community. Community has remained central to Jim’s contributions, which include working on the design and testing of JSR-310 and serving on the Java Community Process Executive Committee for several years. Jim’s a regular conference speaker and spent four years teaching Java and C++ around the world.

Sessions

1:30pm–5:00pm Monday, February 24, 2020

Location: Beekman Parlor

Building, specifying, and testing APIs with microservices

Fundamentals

Secondary topics: Best Practice, Case Study, Hands-on

Jim Gough (Morgan Stanley), Matthew Auburn (Morgan Stanley), Padmavati Sridhar (Morgan Stanley)

Average rating:

(2.50, 2 ratings)

James Gough, Padma Sridhar, and Matthew Auburn walk you through the creation of a very simple task list API. Read more.

2:15pm–3:05pm Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Location: Grand Ballroom West

API gateways: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Application architecture, Fundamentals

Secondary topics: Best Practice, Case Study

Jim Gough (Morgan Stanley), Matthew Auburn (Morgan Stanley)

Average rating:

(4.00, 5 ratings)

James Gough and Matthew Auburn investigate all things API gateway, including architecture, use cases, anti-patterns, and most importantly how to avoid catastrophic production problems. They set up scenario demonstrations to show the worst kind of failures, how they manifest, and how the use of effective testing and chaos engineering can help avoid potential disaster. Read more.