Schedule: Hands-on sessions

Charles Pretzer explains how to deploy a service mesh in production from the ground up using Linkerd. You'll briefly review the fundamentals of microservice architectures and concepts, then dive into hands-on exercises on deploying an application and using Linkerd to collect metrics and shape traffic. Read more.

Event-driven design (EDD) scales from small, simple applications to large, complex systems, and it provides the ability to extend applications with new functionality and retroactively catch up on historical domain events. Sasha Jolich explains how to create a to-do web app using EDD. Read more.

Upfront architecture is essential to ensure reliability. Ideally, the system design starts with defining clear service-level objectives (SLOs) that translate into the right architecture to avoid gold-plating or costly redesigns after the system is live. Marco van der Linden and Tom Hofte explain how to define clear SLOs and apply architectural patterns to design a system that works as promised. Read more.

James Gough, Padma Sridhar, and Matthew Auburn walk you through the creation of a very simple task list API. Read more.

If you've ever struggled with a microservices architecture or read about event sourcing and CQRS but were disappointed to only find high-level descriptions, this course is for you. Ethan Garofolo helps you get hands-on and actually learn these concepts as you discover how to model state as events and build the pieces of a fully functioning system. Read more.

Adopting a microservices architecture can present new challenges in observability, networking, and security. Megan O'Keefe explores how Istio, an open source service mesh tool, can help you solve these challenges by providing a unified management layer for your services. Through demos, you'll learn how to use Istio to route traffic, automate security policies, and monitor services at scale. Read more.

Maggie Carroll teaches you how to develop influence through relationship building and a tool for moving from a fire-fighting mode to proactive ownership, which she created as an enterprise architect. She also shares useful skills and actionable techniques for creating a new enterprise architecture function and a tool for remaining productive as a leader. Read more.

John Chapin explains how—in this brave new world of managed services and platforms—you can use serverless technologies and an infrastructure-as-code mind-set to architect, build, and operate resilient systems that survive even massive vendor outages. Read more.

Since the mid-1980s, relational databases have been standard for most applications to store and query structured data. As architectures became more complex, databases generalized to fit a variety of use cases. Simplicity was key: storage, indexing, caching, querying, and transaction management, all under a unified SQL. Alex Silva examines how relational databases overcome these challenges. Read more.

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. Read more.