Schedule

Mark Richards outlines patterns for migrating monolithic and service-oriented architectures to microservices.

Your business decides to invest in an event-driven architecture (EDA)...so what now? Join Amanda Gilbert for an overview of EDA. You'll explore the benefits they offer in terms of flexibility in your architectural design and long-term thinking—EDAs allow you to reconsider the way you share data within your organizations, and by planning an adaptable design, you allow for future growth.

Services can expose sensitive data. However, we often "secure" these services using an API key or security through obscurity. James Wallace explains what you need to secure and how to secure it and shares solutions that can be implemented for both server- and client-side requests—so no matter what your services expose, you'll understand how to build secure distributed architectures.

Micro-frontends are starting to get more traction thanks to the benefits they provide, like independent deployments, team autonomy, and a quick path to production. Luca Mezzalira illustrates how to structure a micro-frontend architecture and busts myths by providing concrete examples applied in the real world.

The path to growing innovation projects to highly scalable, resilient, and performant systems is riddled with challenges and doubts. Cristina Turbatu draws on her experience to highlight the problems that occur during the rapid evolution of proof-of-concept architectures to production-ready products while discussing some of the solutions to ongoing uncertainty and constant pivots.

Often microservices and bounded contexts are considered the same thing. They aren't. Vladik Khononov points out the difference between the two, provides heuristics for when each pattern should be used, and shares his experience optimizing microservices-based architectures at NaXex.

Software metrics can be used effectively to judge the maintainability and architectural quality of a code base. Even more importantly, they can be used as canaries in a coal mine to warn early about dangerous accumulations of architectural and technical debt.

Microservices, and especially the event-driven variants, are at the very peak of the hype cycle and, according to some, on their way down. Meanwhile, a large number of success stories and failures have been shared about this architectural style. Allard Buijze explains how not to throw away the baby with the bath water and end up reinventing the same concepts again a decade from now.

Exponential growth in AI technologies has resulted in discourse around the potential harms, intentional and unintentional, that the algorithms and AI can cause. The public conversation, however, has remained largely policy oriented. Devangana Khokhar and Vanya Seth outline how to build responsible AI systems with evolutionary architecture that have responsibility at their core.

Steven Jones and Nicholas Fong walk you through migrating a chatbot, cognitive search, and other services to a Kubernetes-based architecture. Technologies include multiregion clusters, load balancers, integrating Express and Flask servers, and high-speed data transfer for importing models.

Machine learning is taking the world by storm, and many companies with rules engines in place for making business decisions are starting to leverage it. However, the two technologies are geared toward different problems. Andrew Bonham details the strengths of both rules engines and machine learning and identifies the best use cases for each.

Vaughn Vernon leads a deep dive into whether event-driven architecture and streaming is all it's cracked up to be, serious pitfalls to these to techniques, and how to avoid them. You'll learn about domain-driven design (DDD) context mapping with open host service and published language and discover how to integrate using reactive implementations that transform streaming to well-designed solutions.

The pressure on development teams to build amazing products and digital experiences to keep users happy has never been higher. Success depends on automating the manual approaches to researching and selecting open source packages. Keenan Szulik shares best practices for application development teams to use while reviewing how to simplify, streamline, and strengthen the process.

Allen Holub leads a practical introduction to event storming, including an extensive live demo. Join in to explore the entities, bounded contexts, and essential events for an effective choreographed microservice (or reactive) architecture.

As a leading eGov country, the Uruguayan government decided to build its own world-class multifactor auth service for its citizens. Juan Saavedra shares how a journey focused on improving security ultimately impacted development practices and architecture and how it relates to improvements in usability and reliability in the context of a RESTful web application.

When it comes to building complex systems architectures, teams often begin with strategies such as event drive and, in some cases, even sourcing approaches. What some forget is that details in postproduction might generate more problems than solutions. Biharck Araújo shares real use cases that illustrate the most essential parts of the event sourcing methodology and common mistakes to avoid.

Event-driven architectures are on the rise. Bernd Rücker looks at events on the inside and outside of an application or service to determine the advantages of event-driven architectures. But he also focuses on the often-forgotten pitfalls. You'll leave with a better understanding what event driven means and how to apply it in your project.

Nubank is a national bank from Brazil with 12 million customers and an architecture with 300+ microservices that are totally cloud based. Luiz Hespanha and Lucas Cavalcanti outline the challenges of expanding to other countries and internationalizing all the bank's services.

The engineers on the New York Times digital games team bake quality into every new product and feature they deliver. Join Phil Wells for an overview of how the team builds a culture of quality. You'll discover a few of the technical tools and tricks the team uses to ensure confidence and velocity in their software delivery process.

Amanda Kabak explains why there's more to stream processing than serverless workflows. Actors can provide the ability to create complex calculations meshes that run on cloud resources with cost-effective density.

Program chairs Christopher Guzikowski and Neal Ford open the second day of keynotes.

Every 15 years or so, the common wisdom about the best architecture in the software world changes. Mary Poppendieck walks you through a few of the more dramatic architectural changes, looking at what triggered them and how well they worked out.

Software today is staggeringly larger than the programs of the 1960s. George Fairbanks interrogates whether that means it's under our intellectual control or if we found ways to make progress without Edsger Dijkstra's high standards.

Mark Richards challenges some of the tried-and-true axioms in software architecture and shows you how to manage the ever-changing state of software architecture.

Program chairs Chris Guzikowski and Neal Ford close the second day of keynotes.

Join other attendees during lunch at Software Architecture to share ideas, talk about the issues of the day, and maybe solve a few problems. If you aren’t sure which topic to pick, don’t worry—it's not a long-term commitment.

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