4–7 Nov 2019
Schedule: Best Practice sessions
9:00–12:30 Tuesday, 5 November 2019
Location: Hall A2
Average rating:
(2.50, 2 ratings)
Knowing where to start with an API program is difficult. Most development teams have been building APIs for years, but it's different when the goal is to become an API-centric team or company. James Gough, Nick Ebbitt, and Matthew Auburn bootstrap the basics from building your first API, using OpenAPI specification to describe and version your APIs, and deploying behind a gateway.
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13:30–17:00 Tuesday, 5 November 2019
Location: Hall A1
Stefan Hofer (WPS - Workplace Solutions),
dorota kochanowska (Workplace Solutions)
Average rating:
(3.00, 1 rating)
When you want to apply domain-driven design (DDD), you must first master the domain. In this hands-on examination, Stefan Hofer, and Dorota Kochanowska show you how to build up domain knowledge with domain storytelling. Domain stories help you better understand a domain, identify what is core, segregate bounded contexts, and constitute ubiquitous language.
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13:30–17:00 Tuesday, 5 November 2019
Location: Hall A2
Jochem Schulenklopper and Gero Vermaas explain and practice an approach that enables you to improve and release serverless functions to production with confidence. You'll make changes in some sample serverless functions running in production, deploy the improved functions to production, and analyze your improvement against the originals.
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13:30–17:00 Tuesday, 5 November 2019
Location: Hall A7
Paris Buttfield-Addison (Secret Lab),
Mars Geldard (University of Tasmania),
Tim Nugent (lonely.coffee),
Jon Manning (Secret Lab)
Average rating:
(4.50, 2 ratings)
Paris Buttfield-Addison, Mars Geldard, and Tim Nugent explore game design without coding or game engines. You’ll get a fresh perspective on architecture, design, and community engagement by understanding how people interact with the fastest-growing form of entertainment in the world: games. A software architect can learn a lot from game design; here you'll learn everything you need to get started.
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9:00–10:30 Wednesday, 6 November 2019
Location: Hall A2
Mark Richards (Self-employed)
Average rating:
(4.77, 13 ratings)
Mark Richards examines the the rise and fall of microservices. Over the past five years, microservices has been at the forefront of most books, articles, and company initiatives. While some companies experience success with microservices, most companies experience pain, cost overruns, and failed initiatives while designing and implementing this incredibly complex architecture style.
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9:00–10:30 Wednesday, 6 November 2019
Location: Hall A5
Pratik Patel (IBM)
Average rating:
(4.33, 3 ratings)
Moving to serverless allows you to take your application development, deployment, and economics to a new level while delivering software to your customers faster and cheaper. But there are also significant trade-offs to keep in mind. Pratik Patel takes a deep dive into serverless from an architecture point of view.
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9:00–10:30 Wednesday, 6 November 2019
Location: M4/M5
Carola Lilienthal (Workplace Solutions)
Average rating:
(5.00, 10 ratings)
Almost every software system is developed with good intentions but under difficult conditions and technical debt is built step by step. The whole system is woven into a messy big knob and every adjustment becomes an incalculable cost screw. Carola Lilienthal explains how you can organize and further develop your source code to prevent the emergence and increase of technical debt.
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9:00–10:30 Wednesday, 6 November 2019
Location: M6/M7
Eltjo Poort (CGI)
Average rating:
(5.00, 6 ratings)
Eltjo Poort is here to help you figure out if you've struck the right balance between architecture and agile working. Eltjo explores how to measure agile architecture maturity and applied the model to help teams get more value out of their architecture function. You might recognize some of the behavior patterns.
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9:00–10:30 Wednesday, 6 November 2019
Location: M8
Zdenek Nemec (Good API)
Average rating:
(4.75, 4 ratings)
Ubiquitous APIs and ever-growing distributed systems brought major challenges with complexity and discovery, which can no longer be overcome by hiring more people. We need to architect our systems differently. Enter autonomous APIs. Zdenek Nemec explores the problems with the complexity of forming API landscapes and proposes the autonomy of the components as the solution.
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9:00–10:30 Wednesday, 6 November 2019
Location: Expo Hall Sessions
Pini Reznik (Container Solutions)
Average rating:
(5.00, 1 rating)
Pini Reznik shares a story drawn from real-world migration projects that demonstrates a transformation design and reveals related patterns, including failures along the way. By the end, it establishes a full pattern language.
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11:00–11:45 Wednesday, 6 November 2019
Location: Hall A5
Maggie Carroll (MAG Aerospace)
Average rating:
(3.50, 2 ratings)
Software architects and enterprise architects work with a variety of roles; often the deep technical work is performed by other application architects or solutions architects. Maggie Carroll explores developing influence as well as skills and actionable techniques she found useful when creating a new enterprise architecture function and a tool for remaining productive as a leader.
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11:00–11:45 Wednesday, 6 November 2019
Location: M4/M5
Rob Zuber (CircleCI)
Average rating:
(4.25, 4 ratings)
Rob Zuber outlines how to pick your "Goldilocks moment" to update your systems: not too early and not too late. He’ll also share some critical moments at CircleCI and how Docker, Go, Kubernetes, and other tools replaced simpler initial systems to allow CircleCI to hit massive scale.
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11:00–11:45 Wednesday, 6 November 2019
Location: M8
Kevlin Henney (Curbralan)
Average rating:
(4.60, 5 ratings)
"It's just semantics." Semantics is all about meaning. If there's one thing we struggle with and need to get better at, it's the search for and clarification of meaning. Kevlin Henney explores how the very act of software development is an exercise in meaning—its discovery, its formulation, its communication. Paradigms, processes, and practices are anchored in ways of arriving at meaning.
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11:00–11:45 Wednesday, 6 November 2019
Location: Expo Hall Sessions
Average rating:
(3.50, 2 ratings)
Data science, machine learning, and data manipulation and preparation are all core components of a future, trendy, world of software engineering. Many of these are built with "quick hacks," tiny scripts, or based on pipelines that are cobbled together from multiple components, frameworks, and the like. Mars Geldard and Paris Buttfield-Addison explore if software architecture matters to this world.
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15:00–15:45 Wednesday, 6 November 2019
Location: Hall A2
Ivan Jovanovic (NearForm)
Average rating:
(4.00, 1 rating)
Applications are becoming so big and complex and most of the app is living on the client side. It’s hard to maintain those apps, and you’re usually making more bugs than you're fixing. Ivan Jovanovic explores how to fix this problem. Welcome to the era of micro-frontends, a microservice-oriented architecture on the frontend.
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15:00–15:45 Wednesday, 6 November 2019
Location: Hall A5
Jean Bordelon (Bounteous)
Average rating:
(4.75, 4 ratings)
It's a real challenge to develop great architects on your team when your organization offers limited opportunities to actually perform as an architect. Jean Bordelon examines approaches to give aspiring architects meaningful ways to grow and veteran architects ways to hone their craft as well as lessons learned along the way.
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15:00–15:45 Wednesday, 6 November 2019
Location: Expo Hall Sessions
Rufus Raghunath and Giamir Buoncristiani apply the principles of evolutionary architecture to UI, first described by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, and Patrick Kua. Neal's a colleague of theirs and has been kind enough to review their content, so they share an authentic look at how frontend engineering can benefit from this progressive approach to architecture.
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15:55–16:40 Wednesday, 6 November 2019
Location: Hall A2
Erik Dörnenburg (ThoughtWorks)
Average rating:
(4.00, 1 rating)
Architectures based on microservices have spread rapidly. Organizations are drawn to the promises of microservices but fail to carry the architecture through to the frontend, resulting in the dreaded frontend monolith. Erik Dörnenburg explores patterns harvested from practical use that show how to build micro-frontends to realize the benefits of microservices in systems with rich user interfaces.
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15:55–16:40 Wednesday, 6 November 2019
Location: Hall A5
Gregor Hohpe (ArchitectElevator.com)
Average rating:
(4.29, 7 ratings)
Architects in the enterprise are often seen as ivory-tower residents far detached from reality. Large-scale IT transformation across hundreds or thousands of applications and processes puts a whole different, and much more exciting, spin on enterprise architecture. Gregor Hohpe takes you on a serious but light-hearted tour of the role of enterprise architects in modern IT organizations.
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15:55–16:40 Wednesday, 6 November 2019
Location: M4/M5
Average rating:
(4.00, 5 ratings)
Around 2017, Antonio Jimenez and Pedro Martos embarked on an ambitious journey: to redefine one of the company's most mission-critical, most complex products from scratch. Join them as they explore how you can achieve an evolutionary architecture from solid foundations such as microservices architecture within a continuous delivery pipeline.
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15:55–16:40 Wednesday, 6 November 2019
Location: M8
Bernd Rücker (Camunda)
Average rating:
(4.00, 3 ratings)
Event-driven architectures enable nicely decoupled microservices. However, using peer-to-peer event chains to implement complex end-to-end logic crossing service boundaries can accidentally increase coupling. Bernd Rücker shares real-life experiences on how (micro-)services can collaborate and how to balance orchestration and choreography.
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15:55–16:40 Wednesday, 6 November 2019
Location: Expo Hall Sessions
Vladik Khononov (DoiT International)
Average rating:
(3.50, 4 ratings)
Vladik Khononov explains how he and his team embraced domain-driven design (DDD) at Plexop, a large-scale marketing system that spans over a dozen different business domains. Join in to learn how DDD allowed the team to manage business complexities, see what worked (and what didn't), and discover where they had to adapt the DDD methodology to fit the company's needs.
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16:50–17:35 Wednesday, 6 November 2019
Location: M8
Vladik Khononov (DoiT International)
Average rating:
(4.33, 3 ratings)
Events are our industry’s near and dear. All technological conferences are full of talks on event sourcing, event-driven architectures, or event-driven integrations. Vladik Khononov adds another one, but a bit different. Let’s talk about the dark side of this pattern—the cases in which events turn into an anti-pattern, how to identify them, and, of course, how to turn the project around.
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9:00–10:30 Thursday, 7 November 2019
Location: Hall A5
Vaughn Vernon (Kalele and vlingo/PLATFORM)
Average rating:
(3.80, 5 ratings)
The paradigm billboard reads, "Object-oriented failed." Vaughn Vernon explores the ways developers have failed at object-oriented compared to the use objects their inventor intended. Reactive domain-driven design (DDD) features explicit, coherent, message sending that employs simple, business-centric, concurrent objects.
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9:00–10:30 Thursday, 7 November 2019
Location: M6/M7
Gernot Starke (aim42 | arc42 | INNOQ)
Average rating:
(4.50, 2 ratings)
Gernot Starke examines a (formerly successful) large ecommerce system and its rescue from legacy hell: systematically identifying technical and organizational debt and getting the large system back on track. Gernot explores practical approaches from real live systems, condensed and applicable based on the aim42 architecture improvement method successfully applied to an (anonymized) large system.
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9:00–10:30 Thursday, 7 November 2019
Location: Expo Hall Sessions
Allen Holub (Holub Associates)
Average rating:
(4.75, 4 ratings)
The most effective microservice systems are reactive, choreographed systems. Allen Holub explores what these are and outlines how to design and build them.
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9:00–10:30 Thursday, 7 November 2019
Location: Hall A6
Mark Richards (Self-employed)
Average rating:
(5.00, 9 ratings)
The path to migrating to microservices from a monolithic or service-oriented architecture is riddled with challenges, pitfalls, canyons, demons, and even fire-breathing dragons. Mark Richards walks you through the migration patterns that allow you to easily fly over this challenging road and ease the pain associated with moving to microservices.
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11:00–11:45 Thursday, 7 November 2019
Location: Hall A2
Allen Holub (Holub Associates)
Average rating:
(4.83, 6 ratings)
Learn how to design reactive, event-based systems like microservices using event storming.
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11:00–11:45 Thursday, 7 November 2019
Location: M4/M5
Michael Coté (Pivotal)
Average rating:
(3.00, 1 rating)
As DevOps marauds through organizations that are becoming more cloud native, the role of enterprise architects (EAs) is changing. EAs helped oversee and govern the software lifecycle, but many of their tasks are now pushed to teams and platforms. Michael Coté provides an overview of this shift and shares advice for EAs.
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11:00–11:45 Thursday, 7 November 2019
Location: M6/M7
Stefan Tilkov (INNOQ)
Average rating:
(4.86, 7 ratings)
Stefan Tilkov takes a look at some of the ways you can determine whether the development efforts you're undertaking suffer from too much or too little focus on architecture. You'll examine a number of real-world examples that are intended to inspire either admiration or terror and try to find some recipes of how you can get more of the former and less of the latter in your own projects.
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11:00–11:45 Thursday, 7 November 2019
Location: M8
Join us if you're curious about how to reliably improve and refactor serverless applications or how to ensure you've covered all the unexpected edge cases that occur in production. Jochem Schulenklopper and Gero Vermaas demonstrate a scientific approach that enables you to release your refactored serverless applications to production with great confidence.
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11:00–11:45 Thursday, 7 November 2019
Location: Expo Hall Sessions
Cristina DeLisle (XWiki SAS)
Average rating:
(3.50, 2 ratings)
The evolution of legal norms has centered on privacy as a core value. Cristina DeLisle analyzes how the provisions of the GDPR are tangential with the OSS ecosystem and how the principles of the GDPR are connected to the OSS world. You'll learn how you can analyze the model of data controller or data processor in the context of the OSS participants and infrastructure providers.
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15:00–15:45 Thursday, 7 November 2019
Location: Hall A2
Daniel Bryant (Datawire)
Average rating:
(4.50, 4 ratings)
Daniel Bryant provides an overview of cloud native API gateways and service mesh technologies that are increasingly being used within application modernization programs and microservice-based systems. Join Daniel to learn the benefits and drawbacks of these technologies, how they impact application architecture, and what implementation options are currently available.
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15:00–15:45 Thursday, 7 November 2019
Location: M4/M5
Jibby Ani (Welkin)
Jibby Ayo-Ani walks you through an approach to the security model of BeyondCorp within a startup. BeyondCorp is an enterprise security model created and improved upon by Google that assigns access controls to individual devices and users rather than networks.
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15:00–15:45 Thursday, 7 November 2019
Location: M6/M7
Robin Moffatt (Confluent)
Average rating:
(2.00, 2 ratings)
Robin Moffatt explores the concepts of events, their relevance to software and data engineers, and their ability to unify architectures in a powerful way. Join in to learn why analytics, data integration, and ETL fit naturally into a streaming world. Along the way, Robin leads a hands-on demonstration of these concepts in practice and commentary on the design choices made.
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15:00–15:45 Thursday, 7 November 2019
Location: M8
Viacheslav Inozemtsev (Zalando)
Average rating:
(2.50, 2 ratings)
Building a data lake is a hard task. You have to centralize all the data of the company in one place, it must be easily accessible, and governance has to be done right. And, last but not least, the price has to stay reasonable. All those aspects come up as quite a challenge. But never fear. Viacheslav Inozemtsev outlines the experience of building Zalando's data lake.
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15:55–16:40 Thursday, 7 November 2019
Location: Hall A2
Alex Soto (Red Hat)
Average rating:
(4.80, 5 ratings)
There's a lot of talk about Istio and its principles, but Alex Soto goes one step beyond. He just introduces Istio to quickly move on to start covering advanced things like feature graduation, end-to-end security, tap comparison, mirroring traffic, and more.
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15:55–16:40 Thursday, 7 November 2019
Location: Hall A5
Average rating:
(5.00, 1 rating)
Paddy Fagan and Eamonn Moriarty have, over the last three years, overseen the evolution of a SaaS offering (Watson Care Manager). They provide you with an overview of this experience with a particular focus on the continuous architectural refactoring that has been at the core.
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15:55–16:40 Thursday, 7 November 2019
Location: M6/M7
Average rating:
(3.00, 4 ratings)
Your organization has grown and now you need to break down product silos and leverage a common platform to move to the next big step. Join Sidney Shek and Diogo Lucas to hear to the ups and downs of a platformization journey, where they address the features you need to platformize and when, how much design is enough for a platform service, how to handle the mass adoption of your service, and more.
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16:50–17:35 Thursday, 7 November 2019
Location: M6/M7
Natalie Godec (Babylon Health)
Average rating:
(4.00, 2 ratings)
Babylon is an AI-driven, digital-first healthcare company. Natalie Godec will take you through the process of designing and building a Data Engineering platform in healthcare.
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16:50–17:35 Thursday, 7 November 2019
Location: M8
Average rating:
(5.00, 4 ratings)
Sidney Shek and Jeff Farber explain how to use techniques like event sourcing, CQRS, and CRDTs to mitigate unpredictable failures that stem from humans and increasingly complex architectures in the cloud native world (microservices, anyone?). You'll learn implementation tips and tricks based on their successes (and failures) in building out the Identity platform that underpins Atlassian Cloud.
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