Track host
About the track
Creating backend architectures is a more demanding task than ever, with many questions to answer, such as: how to build and operate services that are reliable and secure, scale to millions of users, and are maintainable too? How do you ensure data is always up-to-date and accessible with low latency? Which consistency models can be leveraged to achieve a good balance of performance and user experience? How to keep your systems observable, and how to establish governance and discovery for synchronous APIs as well as streaming services?
Come and join us for the “Building Modern Backends” track, where we are going to explore these and other related questions, helping you to build backends that spark joy for your users and your developers alike.
The day in the host's words
Sessions in this track
Monday 27 March. 6 sessions per track, chosen and introduced by the Track Host.
10:35 Fleming (3rd Fl.) Session consistency Eventual Consistency – Don’t Be Afraid! Susanne Braun Principal Tech Lead @SAPSignavio Distributed data-intensive systems are increasingly designed to be only eventually consistent. 11:50 Fleming (3rd Fl.) Session cloud native The Commoditization of the Software Stack: How Application-first Cloud Services are Changing the Game Bilgin Ibryam Principal Product Manager @Diagrid, Co-author of “Kubernetes Patterns“, Previously Architect @RedHat The runtime boundaries between applications and the cloud are shifting from virtual machines to containers and functions. The integration boundaries are moving away from pure data access to one where the mechanical parts of the application are running within the cloud. 13:40 Rutherford (4th Fl.) Unconference Unconference: Building Modern Backends Shane Hastie Global Delivery Lead @SoftEd, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods @InfoQ What is an unconference? 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. 14:55 Churchill (Ground Fl.) Session OpenTelemetry Effective and Efficient Observability with OpenTelemetry Daniel Gomez Blanco Principal Engineer @Skyscanner Modern architectures require effective observability solutions to be able to monitor their health and understand how system changes affect operations distributed across multiple services. 16:10 Fleming (3rd Fl.) Session api Connecting the Dots: API Design in a Distributed World Ben Gamble Adviser, Architect & Speaker About Interactive Technology, Startups & Event Driven Systems As we’ve gone from building monoliths to building microservices, the number of APIs we’ve got to manage has gone from just the database and front end, to at least one per service. 17:25 Churchill (Ground Fl.) Session Data What is Derived Data? (And do You Already Have Any?) Felix GV Principal Staff Engineer @LinkedIn There is a growing trend of databases specializing in derived data ingestion and serving. They complement more traditional “primary data” (or “source of truth”) systems.QCon London 2023 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.