Case Study sessions

Valentina Rodriquez shares a manifest describing a set of principles to design high-quality architectures. If you're planning to change your career or just want to improve your architect skills, join in. Read more.

Vladik Khononov shares an experience report of using the domain-driven design (DDD) methodology at a greenfield company from the first day the company was founded all the way to acquisition by one of his clients. Read more.

Many presentations on microservices offer a high-level view of the architecture; rarely do you hear what it’s like to work in such an environment. Stephen Pember shares his experience migrating from a monolith to microservices across several companies, highlighting the mistakes made along the way and offering advice. Read more.

After an expensive failed attempt at a complete rewrite, Ticketmaster is attempting to evolve the monolith that is its core ticketing platform. Cat Swetel isn't talking about best practices for DevOpsing your monolith; she tells the true story of one company’s journey toward a more flexible, adaptable, and easily maintainable architecture using tools like Wardley Maps and real options theory. Read more.

We have a choice in designing our careers: follow the path of a technologist, exploiting a tech, or become a computational thinker who can address a much broader set of problems. Sarah Aslanifar compares the human mind to a computer, discusses ways to build intuition for your code, and teaches you some techniques to learn more efficiently and retrieve information more quickly. Read more.

How can you reliably improve and refactor serverless applications? How do you ensure you have covered all the unexpected edge cases that occur in production? Gero Vermaas and Jochem Schulenklopper explain and demonstrate a scientific approach (promoted by GitHub in its Scientist library) that enables you to release refactored serverless applications to production with great confidence. Read more.

Jeff Beck has been on a five-year journey evolving the architecture at SmartThings, moving from one monolith and three supporting services to more than one hundred microservices and expanding from a US-only platform to a worldwide IoT platform. The architecture has been shaped by product and organizational needs. Join Jeff to explore the major architectural eras iterated on the platform. Read more.

A free puppy is great but also takes a lot of time, energy, and money. Likewise, when we make a build-versus-buy calculation, it's easy to miss several important parts of the calculation, including maintenance, updating, security, availability, and finding operators. None of those are easy to articulate or value for either side. Join Heidi Waterhouse to learn why business value is more than money. Read more.