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Tuesday, February 5

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10:15am–10:45am Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Meet the Experts with Trisha Gee
Location: Table A
Trisha Gee (JetBrains)
Join Trisha to talk about Java high-performance systems, enabling developer productivity, and open source development. Read more.
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10:15am–10:45am Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Meet the Experts with Seth Dobbs
Location: Table B
Seth Dobbs (Bounteous)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 1 rating)
Seth is happy to discuss communication skills and difficult conversations, leadership skills for architects, and broad architectural strategy. Read more.
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10:15am–10:45am Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Meet the Experts with Arun Gupta
Location: Table C
Arun Gupta (Amazon Web Services)
Come pick Arun's brain about deploying Java applications in Kubernetes clusters and discuss topics like distributed tracing across microservices, metrics using Prometheus and Grafana, deployment pipelines, and canary and A/B testing. Read more.
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10:15am–10:45am Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Meet the Experts with Zaheda Bhorat
Location: Table D
Zaheda Bhorat (Amazon Web Services)
Do you have open source questions? Are you growing your company’s open source practice, participating in projects, contributing, or building communities? Zaheda will be on hand to share practical advice. She'll also be giving away copies of her book, Open Source in the Enterprise. Read more.
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3:05pm–3:50pm Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Meet the Experts with Chris Richardson
Location: Table A
Chris Richardson (Eventuate)
Come talk with Chris about using the microservice architecture to develop your applications, strategies for refactoring a monolith to a microservice architecture, and Microservices.io, his pattern language for microservices. Read more.
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3:05pm–3:50pm Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Meet the Experts with Mike Roberts
Location: Table C
Mike Roberts (Symphonia)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 1 rating)
Mike is happy to chat about public cloud technology—particularly your interest in or concerns about using the technology. He’d also love to hear from anyone in the process of adding serverless techniques to their architectural toolbox about the challenges and epiphanies they are having. Read more.
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3:05pm–3:50pm Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Meet the Experts with Mike Amundsen, Ronnie Mitra and Mehdi Medjaoui
Location: Table D
Mike Amundsen (Amundsen.com, Inc.), Ronnie Mitra (CA API Academy), Mehdi Medjaoui (APIDays Conferences/TheMaintainers)
Mike, Mehdi, and Ronnie are here to discuss their new O'Reilly book, Continuous API Management. Read more.

Wednesday, February 6

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10:15am–10:45am Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Meet the Experts with Maria Gomez
Location: Table B
Maria Gomez (BCG Digital Ventures)
Maria is here to talk about microservices and event-driven architectures, from how to determine if they are suitable for your organization to how to deploy and operationalize them. She's also happy to discuss crafting technical strategies and leading teams, drawing on her experience as the head of technology for ThoughtWorks in Spain. Read more.
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10:15am–10:45am Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Meet the Experts with Asanka Abeysinghe
Location: Table C
Asanka Abeysinghe (WSO2)
A cell-based architecture is a composable unit of architecture that is self-contained. Asanka is here to talk about how enterprises can use cell-based architecture to connect architecture, implementation, and deployment by making autonomous development teams. Read more.
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10:15am–10:45am Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Meet the Experts with Peter Pezaris
Location: Table A
Peter Pezaris (CodeStream)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 2 ratings)
With employee turnover highest in tech companies among all industries, chances are your best developers will leave and someone new will have to take over your codebase within the next 18 months. Peter will share insights, techniques, and solutions aimed at solving the knowledge gap for development teams over time. Read more.
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3:05pm–3:50pm Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Meet the Experts with Daniel Bryant
Location: Table A
Daniel Bryant (Datawire)
Daniel is happy to talk about developer experience (DevEx) and why you should care about it. Join in to hear lessons learned from the trenches and maybe share your own. Read more.
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3:05pm–3:50pm Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Meet the Experts with Paris Buttfield-Addison & Tim Nugent
Location: Table D
Paris Buttfield-Addison (Secret Lab), Tim Nugent (Lonely Coffee)
Join Paris and Tim to discuss the entity component system (ECS)-based architectures created by game developers and learn why this flexible, compatible, composable approach isn't just for games. Read more.
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3:05pm–3:50pm Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Meet the Experts with Aaron Miller
Location: Table B
Aaron Miller (Kong)
Aaron is looking forward to discussing microservices, service meshes, serverless, and cloud-native architectures. He's happy to talk about API management and how these increasingly distributed systems create new challenges for managing communications across an organization’s architecture. Read more.
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3:05pm–3:50pm Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Meet the Experts with Simon Jones
Location: Table C
Simon Jones (PubNub)
Simon is here to discuss how real-time architecture is displacing REST and transforming products and industries. Read more.