Keynote: Mature Microservices and How to Operate Them
Abstract
Benefiting from Microservices requires some pretty big changes to culture along with a technical maturity. This keynote discusses some of the challenges for building stable, resilient services and ultimately what worked at the Financial Times.
Tracks
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Modern Operating Systems
Decompose the modern operating system, LinuxKit, Containers, Unikernals, eBPF, and more.
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Ever wondered how they do it? Next-gen architectures from the most admired companies in software, such as Netflix, Google, BBC, Twitter, & more.
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Modern CS in the Real World
Rediscover CS in this applied track on how research is affecting software today.
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Architecting for Failure: Chaos, Complexity, and Resilience
Making systems resilient involves people and tech. Learn about strategies being used from chaos testing to distributed system clustering.
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Architecting for the Cloud / Streaming Architectures
Cloud native architectures is a reality. Hear the war stories. learn the benefits, and dodge some of the pitfalls of running on the cloud.
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JavaScript: Powering the Modern Web
Explore the frameworks that make JavaScript so popular, and learn how JavaScript-based languages are revolutionizing frontend (and backend) development.
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Operationalizing Microservices: Design, Deliver, Operate
What's the last mile for deploying your service? Learn techniques from the world's most innovative shops on operating microservices.
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“Don’t Mess Up The Culture!”—Scaling with Sanity
Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion. How do you maintain the culture as you scale?
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DevOps & DevEx: Remove Friction, Ship Code, Add Value
Remove developer friction: CI/CD, fluent API, service meshes... anything that removes the friction in deploying & operating a system.
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AI/Machine Learning without a PhD
AI/ML is more approachable than ever. Discover how deep learning and ML is being used in practice. Topics include: TensorFlow, TPUs, Keras, PyTorch, & more. No PhD required.
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Surviving Uncertainty: GDPR, Brexit, or Politics? Beyond DR
With so much uncertainty, how do you bulkhead your organization and technology choices? Learn strategies for dealing with uncertainty today.
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Career Hacking
Strategies for advancing the skills that advance your career. Look for mentoring, speaking, empathy, and career paths.
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Advances in FinTech
Finance is king in London. What's happening and what should you be paying attention to with modern #FinTech
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Security Transformation
How do you actually start with a security mindset? Learn techniques for making security a first-class concern.
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Tech Ethics: The Intersection of Human Welfare & STEM
What does it mean to be ethical in software? Hear how the discussion is evolving and what is being said in ethics today.
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Bare Knuckle Performance
Killing latency and getting the most out of your hardware.
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Evolving Java & the JVM
6 month cadence, cloud-native deployments, scale, Graal, Kotlin, and beyond. Learn how the role of Java and the JVM is evolving.
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The Right Language for the Job
We're polyglot developers. Learn languages that excel at very specific tasks and remove the undifferentiated heavy lifting in their specific domain.