Yaroslav Tkachenko is a software engineer interested in distributed systems, microservices, functional programming, modern cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices. Currently Yaroslav is a Senior Software Engineer at Demonware (Activision), working on a large-scale data pipeline. Prior to joining Demonware Yaroslav held various leadership roles in multiple startups. He was responsible for designing, developing, delivering and maintaining platform services and cloud infrastructure for mission critical systems.
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Talk : Actors or Not: Async Event Architectures
Talk : Actor-Based Architectures AMA w/ Yaroslav Tkachenko, Kiki Carter & Jonas Boner
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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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