Conference: March 4-6, 2019
Workshops: March 7-8, 2019
Why do small, tight-knit, high-performing companies become large, anonymous, inefficient juggernauts? Is there any way to avoid the silos, fiefdoms, duplication, frustration, duplication, and crazy expense policies of Big Enterprise?
In this track we invite veterans of effective scaling to share their stories, advice, cautionary tales and embarrassing secrets, always keeping in mind the default survivor bias advice of “We have no idea, it just sort of worked!”
10:35am - 11:25am
Collaborative organisational culture doesn't just happen, it needs conscious and deliberate design and careful nurturing. In this workshop participants will explore what a collaborative organisation culture is, why it matters and how to deliberately design culture.
Culture is "the way we do things here" rather than anything written or prescribed, so understanding how leadership attitudes and behaviors influence and create organisation culture is vitally important to successfully establishing an environment where people are able to bring their whole selves to work, are engaged and positively contribute to the organisation's success.
This session is presented as series of facilitated conversations drawing out the key aspects of organisation culture and showing how it is influenced by a wide variety of factors including structure, geography, promotion policies and practices, the conversations leaders have, what gets rewarded, ignored or punished, relationships and friendships and a wide variety of other factors.
By the end of the session the participants will be able to identify areas they wish to address in their own organisations and will have some resources to help them in their culture design.
11:50am - 12:40pm
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1:40pm - 2:30pm
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2:55pm - 3:45pm
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Decompose the modern operating system, LinuxKit, Containers, Unikernals, eBPF, and more.
Ever wondered how they do it? Next-gen architectures from the most admired companies in software, such as Netflix, Google, BBC, Twitter, & more.
Rediscover CS in this applied track on how research is affecting software today.
Making systems resilient involves people and tech. Learn about strategies being used from chaos testing to distributed system clustering.
Cloud native architectures is a reality. Hear the war stories. learn the benefits, and dodge some of the pitfalls of running on the cloud.
Explore the frameworks that make JavaScript so popular, and learn how JavaScript-based languages are revolutionizing frontend (and backend) development.
What's the last mile for deploying your service? Learn techniques from the world's most innovative shops on operating microservices.
Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion. How do you maintain the culture as you scale?
Remove developer friction: CI/CD, fluent API, service meshes... anything that removes the friction in deploying & operating a system.
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.
With so much uncertainty, how do you bulkhead your organization and technology choices? Learn strategies for dealing with uncertainty today.
Strategies for advancing the skills that advance your career. Look for mentoring, speaking, empathy, and career paths.
Finance is king in London. What's happening and what should you be paying attention to with modern #FinTech
How do you actually start with a security mindset? Learn techniques for making security a first-class concern.
What does it mean to be ethical in software? Hear how the discussion is evolving and what is being said in ethics today.
Killing latency and getting the most out of your hardware.
6 month cadence, cloud-native deployments, scale, Graal, Kotlin, and beyond. Learn how the role of Java and the JVM is evolving.
We're polyglot developers. Learn languages that excel at very specific tasks and remove the undifferentiated heavy lifting in their specific domain.