Jon Rowland is a Director of Engineering at Metaswitch, working at the leading edge of cloud native communications software. He has nearly two decades of experience delivering high-scale, highly-available software solutions, and has recently been helping to shape Metaswitch’s technical strategy for building containerised microservices that bring real-time communications to the cloud.
Tracks
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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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                                      Distributed Stateful Systems                   
                  Architecting and leveraging NoSQL revisitied 
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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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                                      The Practice & Frontiers of AI                  
                  Learn about machine learning in practice and on the horizon 
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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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                                      Stream Processing in the Modern Age                  
                  Compelling applications of stream processing & recent advances in the field 
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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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                                      Modern CS in the Real World                  
                  Applied trends in Computer Science that are likely to affect Software Engineers today. 
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                                      DevEx: The Next Evolution of DevOps                  
                  Removing friction from the developer experience. 
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                                      Bare Knuckle Performance                  
                  Killing latency and getting the most out of your hardware 
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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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                                      Security: Red XOR Blue Team                  
                  Security from the defender's AND the attacker's point of view 
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                                      Architecting for Failure                  
                  If you're not architecting for failure you're heading for failure 
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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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                                      Observability: Logging, Alerting and Tracing                  
                  Observability in modern large distributed computer systems 
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                                      Speaker AMAs (Ask Me Anything)                   
                  
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                                      Building Great Engineering Cultures & Organizations                  
                  Stories of cultural change in organizations 
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                                      Speaker AMAs (Ask Me Anything)                   
                  
 
                              