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If you're not architecting for failure you're heading for failure
Peter works as Chief Scientific Officer of Superbet, a leading group of companies that operates and manages the largest chain of sports betting shops in Romania. Since its inception in 2008, Superbet brand has provided premium sports betting services for its customers in a fun, friendly and safe environment. The Group employs over 1,500 people and is among the most active employers in Bucharest and other large Romanian cities.
by Jonas Bonér
Founder & CTO @Lightbend / Creator of Akka
Event-driven architecture and design have been getting a lot of attention in recent years. It’s an old concept that has been around for decades, so why this sudden peak of interest?
In this talk, we will explore the nature of events, what it means to be event-driven, and how we can unleash the power of events. The goal is to arm you with a solid theoretical understanding of how to design an event-driven system, what tools and...
by Conor Svensson
Founder of blk.io, author of web3j
In this talk I’ll be discussing some of the different approaches taken in the Ethereum blockchain for handling failure.
We’ll cover the public Ethereum blockchain and the steps taken to ensure a robust execution environment for this massively decentralised computer.
We’ll also talk about some of the challenges faced in private consortium network deployments and how the technology had been adapted to service different business needs.
by Michael Maibaum
Chief Architect @SkyBet
Sky Sports Super 6 is a free football results prediction game, launched in 2008. It’s extremely popular with over a million entries per week and drives a substantial proportion of our traffic at peak time, putting heavy load on our login/single sign on systems. This talk will focus on the reality of adapting a complex set of interacting, highly coupled applications to make them more resilient and better able to cope with failure. I’ll also discuss how to manage the trade-offs of improving a...
by Pablo Jensen
CTO @Sportradar
Architecting for Failure covers the challenges (both technical and organizational) of constantly improving service delivery of a growing global company with a 24x7x365 service redundancy requirement.
The talk focuses on best practices and lessons learned in building resilient systems. Topics discussed include: multi-cloud positioning, geo-location strategies, best-of-breed provider mix consideration, organizational structure/...
by Tammy Butow
Principal Site Reliability Engineer @Gremlin
There are those of us that are motivated to build resilient systems, improve uptime, move fast and keep systems reliable. Then there are those of us who feel overwhelmed by our to-do lists and the features or projects we feel we need to get out the door.
The world needs more resilient systems because the world needs engineers in this for the long haul. We can create a better future for ourselves, those who come after us, our...
Tracks
Monday, 5 March
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Leading Edge Backend Languages
Code the future! How cutting-edge programming languages and their more-established forerunners can help solve today and tomorrow’s server-side technical problems.
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Security: Red XOR Blue Team
Security from the defender's AND the attacker's point of view
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Microservices/ Serverless: Patterns and Practices
Stories of success and failure building modern service and function-based applications, including event sourcing, reactive, decomposition, & more.
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Stream Processing in the Modern Age
Compelling applications of stream processing & recent advances in the field
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DevEx: The Next Evolution of DevOps
Removing friction from the developer experience.
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Modern CS in the Real World
Applied trends in Computer Science that are likely to affect Software Engineers today.
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Speaker AMAs (Ask Me Anything)
Tuesday, 6 March
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Next Gen Banking: It’s not all Blockchains and ICOs
Great technologies like Blockchain, smartphones and biometrics must not be limited to just faster banking, but better banking.
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Observability: Logging, Alerting and Tracing
Observability in modern large distributed computer systems
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Building Great Engineering Cultures & Organizations
Stories of cultural change in organizations
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Topics like next-gen architecture mixed with applied use cases found in today's large-scale systems, self-driving cars, network routing, scale, robotics, cloud deployments, and more.
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The Practice & Frontiers of AI
Learn about machine learning in practice and on the horizon
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JavaScript and Beyond: The Future of the Frontend
Exploring the great frontend frameworks that make JavaScript so popular and theg JavaScript-based languages revolutionising frontend development.
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Speaker AMAs (Ask Me Anything)
Wednesday, 7 March
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Distributed Stateful Systems
Architecting and leveraging NoSQL revisitied
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Operating Systems: LinuxKit, Unikernels, & Beyond
Applied, practical, & real-world deep-dive into industry adoption of OS, containers and virtualisation, including Linux on Windows, LinuxKit, and Unikernels
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Architecting for Failure
If you're not architecting for failure you're heading for failure
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Evolving Java and the JVM: Mobile, Micro and Modular
Although the Java language is holding strong as a developer favourite, new languages and paradigms are being embraced on JVM.
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Tech Ethics in Action
Learning from the experiences of real-world companies driving technology decisions from ethics as much as technology.
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Bare Knuckle Performance
Killing latency and getting the most out of your hardware
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Speaker AMAs (Ask Me Anything)