February 23–26, 2020

Berlin, DE Nov 2020

Schedule: Sponsored sessions

9:20am–9:25am Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Location: Grand Ballroom

Software development in the mission-critical cloud era (sponsored by IBM)

Hillery Hunter (IBM)

Average rating:

(2.50, 4 ratings)

As the use of cloud expands from initial use cases to broader consumption, new interdisciplinary interlock across software development, cloud architecture, and data architecture are required. In this keynote, we'll touch on key pain points of this inter-disciplinary era and look at the view of holistic cloud architecture and development. Read more.

10:45am–11:35am Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Location: Sutton Center

Holistic architecture for chapter 2 of the cloud era (sponsored by IBM)

Hillery Hunter (IBM)

The cloud era has brought with it great efficiencies in operations, software release cadence, and speed of integration of new functions. In this talk, we'll look at each of these pressures on software and cloud architects and discuss a holistic view of cloud architecture, suited to the next wave of application modernization across industries. Read more.

1:15pm–2:05pm Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Location: Sutton Center

Extending Kubernetes with Operators (sponsored by Red Hat)

Ryan Jarvinen (Red Hat)

The Operator Framework combines Red Hat's latest best practices for the development, installation, and management of platform extensions and enhancements for Kubernetes. Ryan Jarvinen provides you with architectural overviews, implementation notes, and a few popular Operator-based solutions available today. Read more.

1:15pm–2:05pm Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Location: Sutton South

If you like having options when hosting your app...you're wrong (sponsored by IBM)

Doug Davis (IBM)

You've been misled about having to choose which *aaS platform to use to host your cloud native applications. Now you can get all of the key features in one platform with Knative. Doug Davis explains what Knative is and how it lets your devs get back to coding, not managing infrastructure. Read more.

2:15pm–3:05pm Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Location: Sutton South

Common mistakes in identity solutions (sponsored by Auth0)

Vittorio Bertocci (Auth0)

Average rating:

(3.00, 2 ratings)

Getting identity right in your architecture can be very, very tricky. Vittorio Bertocci walks you through through common mistakes in identity solutions. From the costs of ignoring best practices to cautionary tales of unintended consequences, you'll learn how to avoid costly mistakes and successfully tackle identity challenges in your architecture. Read more.

2:15pm–3:05pm Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Location: Sutton Center

Go faster, be safer: Release velocity and psychological safety (sponsored by LaunchDarkly)

Heidi Waterhouse (LaunchDarkly)

Average rating:

(4.67, 3 ratings)

Continuous delivery requires that we're able to deploy broken code into production without negatively affecting anyone. Heidi Waterhouse explains how to adopt this continuous delivery mind-set in yourself and in your teams. Read more.

3:50pm–4:40pm Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Location: Sutton South

Feature flagging and experimentation across services: From theory to reality (sponsored by Optimizely)

Asa Schachar (Optimizely), Lucas Reis (Compass)

Average rating:

(3.00, 1 rating)

Implementing a feature flag platform across services is hard in both theory and practice. Asa Schachar breaks down how to settle on the right architecture, decide on the interfaces, and perform QA and shares some common gotchas you'll encounter along the way. Join in to learn how to go from an unreliable simple system to a scalable, maintainable, and powerful feature flagging platform. Read more.

3:50pm–4:40pm Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Location: Sutton Center

Your system is deeper than you think (sponsored by LightStep)

Austin Parker (LightStep)

Average rating:

(5.00, 2 ratings)

As engineers, we often find ourselves maintaining systems that are full of things outside our control but for which we're nevertheless held responsible. Big or small, these deep systems present significant engineering and operational challenges. Join Austin Parker to learn how to identify your deep systems—along with some techniques to manage them. Read more.

4:50pm–5:40pm Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Location: Sutton Center

Fast-track your app development: How to deliver complex enterprise applications as a service (sponsored by Robin.io)

Simone Sassoli (Robin.io)

Average rating:

(4.00, 1 rating)

Simone Sassoli outlines how to automate complex data-centric app pipelines, including big data, NoSQL, RDBMS, and more with one click (on-premises or on any cloud) so your software teams can focus on app development rather than infrastructure. You'll learn how to use infrastructure and topology-aware technology to accelerate deployment and optimize utilization. Read more.