PratikPatel

Developer Advocate @ Azul Systems

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SOFTWARE ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT ✦ AI ADOPTION ✦ LEADERSHIP ✦ TALENT ACQUISITION & TRAINING ✦ AGILE METHODS ✦

✦ ABOUT PRATIK

Pratik Patel is a Java Champion and developer advocate at Azul Systems and has written 3 books on programming (Java, Cloud and OSS). An all around software and hardware nerd with experience in the healthcare, telecom, financial services, and startup sectors. He's also a co-organizer of the Atlanta Java User Group and North Atlanta JavaScript meetup, frequent speaker at tech events, and master builder of nachos.

Sessions at TechLeader Summit ’25

1 SESSIONS

Thu Dec 4 · 4:00 PM

AI Architecture for Tech Leaders: Building Blocks for AI Applications

The AI space is moving incredibly fast, it seems new methodologies and technologies are coming every week. How’s a technology leader (whether your a VP Engineering, Software Dev Manager or Team Lead) supposed to understand what are the true building blocks for this new class of applications. How do you scope an AI development project, both in terms of developer time and cloud & AI infrastructure? Should you buy AI hardware or pay for API access to OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, etc? Do you have sensitive information that you want to keep from leaking out to an external LLM provider?

BOOKS

Visual Developer Java Database Programming with JDBC, 2nd Edition: The Essentials for Developing Databases for Internet and Intranet Applications

Java Database Programming with JDBC by Pratik Patel and Karl Moss is an updated edition of the authors' guide to the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) standard for database programming under Java. While the original edition was perhaps geared more to those developers who needed to write their own JDBC database drivers, a fairly arduous task, this new edition provides more background information on database connectivity issues in Java and so will be even more useful to the casual or intermediate programmer. After a general introduction to JDBC and Structured Query Language (SQL), useful even to beginning programmers, the authors start by building a simple database-aware applet. New chapters on "servlets," Java components that run on the server-side and manage database operations, as well as a general discussion of middleware technologies are particularly good. Database access for JavaBean components (from Sun Microsystems JDK 1.1) is also discussed, including working code for two database-aware beans. This book also includes a quick introduction to the Java language (which will only be helpful if you already know C/C++), a detailed reference for the JDBC API, and a working example of a text-based JDBC driver. Though this book is still oriented toward the JDBC driver developer, the authors now provide enough general discussion of JDBC architectural issues to make it worthwhile to any programmer who needs to ramp up on what JDBC is and what capabilities it offers.

Java Database Programming with JDBC: Discover the Essentials for Developing Databases for Internet and Intranet Applications

Java Programming for the Internet: A Guide to Creating Dynamic, Interactive Internet Applications

Enables readers to master the Java programming language for internet applications while expanding the scope of online development, and the accompanying CD contains powerful sample applets and a copy of Netscape Navigator. Original. (Intermediate).

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Sessions at TechLeader Summit ’25

AI Architecture for Tech Leaders: Building Blocks for AI Applications

Two and a half days with the people writing the playbook.