Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability

When working with complex, distributed systems, the art of "connecting" is not a one-time feat but an ongoing journey. That journey covers everything from the essential role of APIs and protocols as the building blocks of connectivity, to the necessity of observability for understanding how a system behaves.

This track features a diverse array of perspectives and stories from experts that have built, maintained, and evolved the connections that weave together to become the fabric of distributed systems. As systems become more complex, we'll provide critical knowledge to help you master the art of connecting systems.


From this track

Session Long running

Are You Done Yet? Mastering Long-Running Processes in Modern Architectures

Tuesday Apr 9 / 10:35AM BST

Navigating the challenges of long-running processes is an important skill to survive modern architecture. The complexities arise from the growing distribution of systems and the need to address issues related to remote communication and the unavailability of peers.

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Bernd Ruecker

Co-Founder and Chief Technologist @Camunda

Session GRPC

gRPC Migration Automation at LinkedIn

Tuesday Apr 9 / 11:45AM BST

LinkedIn is in the process of migrating from Rest.li, an internally developed open source framework for building RESTful APIs to gRPC for better framework capabilities, runtime efficiency, and developer productivity.

Speaker image - Karthik Ramgopal

Karthik Ramgopal

Distinguished Engineer & Tech Lead of the Product Engineering Team @LinkedIn

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Min Chen

Principal Staff Software Engineer @LinkedIn, Caltech CS PhD With Over 20-Year Extensive Software Development Experience

Session architecture

Sidecar-Less or Sidecars for Your Applications in Istio Service Mesh?

Tuesday Apr 9 / 01:35PM BST

Sidecar-less functionality has emerged as an alternative approach in service mesh architectures, addressing concerns related to costs and complexity associated with sidecars.

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Lin Sun

Open Source @solo.io, Istio TOC Member, CNCF TAG Network Cochair & Ambassador

Session architecture

Modernizing in Healthcare – From On-Prem to the Cloud

Tuesday Apr 9 / 02:45PM BST

Change is hard. Changing an industry as complex as Healthcare is doubly hard. With conflicting interests, complicated synchronization practices, diverse api integration requirements and an aging, overly complex application, our path from on-prem to cloud-native was not simple.

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Leander Vanderbijl

Senior Engineer @Livi, Previously Principal Engineer @Informa, 13 Years Developing, Managing, and Integrating Diverse Online Systems and Applications

Session

Unconference: Connecting Systems

Tuesday Apr 9 / 03:55PM BST

An unconference is a participant-driven meeting. Attendees come together, bringing their challenges and relying on the experience and know-how of their peers for solutions.

Session testing

Production Comes First - An Outside-In Approach to Building Microservices

Tuesday Apr 9 / 05:05PM BST

The software world is moving towards multiple interconnected applications that service our customer needs, but this makes development so much harder. Now we need to think about how were interact we other systems that we don't necessarily own.

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Martin Thwaites

Developer & Developer Advocate @Honeycomb.io, Observability Activist

Track Host

Thomas Betts

Laureate Application Architect @Blackbaud, Lead Editor for Architecture & Design @InfoQ

Thomas Betts is the Lead Editor for Architecture and Design at InfoQ, a co-host of the InfoQ Podcast, and a Laureate Software Architect at Blackbaud. For over two decades, his focus has always been on providing software solutions that delight his customers. He has worked in a variety of industries, including social good, retail, finance, health care, defense and travel. Thomas lives in Denver with his wife and son, and they love hiking and otherwise exploring beautiful Colorado.

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