JCON EUROPE 2023

After more than 15 years of JPA existence, the rise of NoSQL storages, and the increasing popularity of microservices architecture, software engineers have been facing new challenges on when defining reliable persistence layers. The persistence layer has on its sholders the heaviest weight of responsibility when considering architectures that are - or should we say, should be - customer-centric and domain-driven, resilient and scalable, and finally, evolutionary.


When handling data, we have the option of adoptingpersistence paradigms such as SQL and NoSQL, or even of relying on integration with external services. With a considerable amount of options or flavors (+200 options!), how can we have technically reflect the a business need without coupling it withsuch technical decisions? Or how to have a loosely coupled application and the persistence engine?

In this presentation we'll discuss the new trends in the modern persistence model around enterprise architecture. After 25 years of Java, we must revisist our persistence strategies and get to know all the new hot techs such as framework categories, data patterns, good practices, and several tips that will allow you to leverage the best of database integration with Java - the dream of scalability can finally become a reality.