Distributed Systems
Past Presentations
From Microliths To Microsystems
Everyone is talking about microservices, and there is more confusion than ever about what the promise of microservices really means and how to deliver on it. To address this we will explore microservices from first principles, distilling their essence and putting them in their true context:...
Challenging Perceptions of NHS IT
What are your perceptions of NHS IT? Not great? Well the truth is very different to what you might expect. There is something of a technical renaissance going on in parts of the NHS where things are being done in a modern way, learning from past experiences. We'll look at one example system...
The Distributed Pit of Success @Deliveroo
In just two years Deliveroo has expanded from central London to hundreds of cities in twelve countries, and the engineering team has grown at a similar rate. To allow us to continue innovating rapidly we need to be able to scale the team horizontally. But building distributed systems is hard, and...
Distributed Systems Theory for Practical Engineers
Distributed Systems are a complex topic. There's abundant research about it but sometimes it is hard for a beginner to know where to start. I would like to outline the main concepts of distributed systems, so the interested person can have a clear path on how to start their own research as well....
Best Practices Building Resilient Systems
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...
Interviews
From Microliths To Microsystems
QCon: Your original title had Microdisservices before you changed it to the current one. What did you mean by Microdisservices?
You will get Microdisservices when you approach microservices in a too simplistic way. When you do not go all in building systems with Microservices, bringing over too much preconceptions, patterns, tools and ways of thinking, learned from years building monoliths. It’s a good way to shoot yourself in the foot and get all the...
Read Full InterviewCRDTs and the Quest for Distributed Consistency
What are you working on lately?
I've been at the University of Cambridge, doing research full time now, which is really cool, I get to go deep into interesting topics. Most of my work there has been on CRDTs, which is what I shall talk about in the talk. That is, data structures which can be modified on several different devices at the same time by several different...
Read Full InterviewPragmatic Resiliency: Super 6 & Sky Bet Evolution
What is your talk about?
You go to a lot of conferences and you hear people from Google or Netflix talking about reactive architectures or the Simian army or whatever, and it all feels quite unattainable for a lot of people. It's like this big complicated thing, there is not much like those systems. And Sky Bet has changed quite a lot over the last few years....
Read Full InterviewBeyond the Distributed Monolith: Rearchitecting the Big Data Platform
What are you doing now?
I am a Principal Systems Engineer at the BBC, and within the BBC I work in the area that deals with our personalizations in services. What this means is that when you sign up with an account with the BBC, then you enter all this personalization features and you can get show recommendations, you can follow shows, stay up to date by...
Read Full InterviewThe Evolution of Distributed Systems on Kubernetes
Tell us a little bit about yourself and what you are currently working on.
I currently work for Red Hat as a Product Manager. I look after Data Integration and how data integration might look like in a cloud native world. Everything is moving on Kubernetes and OpenShift including data. I look after projects such as Debezium for Change Data Capture, Data Virtualization and helping drive the roadmap.
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