Data & Security sessions

Data is an immensely valuable business currency. Forward-thinking organizations depend on their data for all manner of business practices. The massive proliferation of data acquisition, and its widespread use, are making modern architectures increasingly complex. As a software architecture practitioner, it’s critical that you have an end-to-end plan for your data access, use, and security. Similarly, the security of your entire enterprise is essential to the health of your overall business. If your goal is to help your organization improve in data and security, Software Architecture Conference offers the following relevant sessions.

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

Location: Beekman Parlor

Data lakes and distributed systems: The truths and myths

Secondary topics: Anti-Pattern, Best Practice, Overview

Jesus Jackson (eGlobalTech)

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(4.00, 4 ratings)

In his time designing and deploying large-scale data lakes and distributed systems, Jesus Jackson has learned many hard truths and discovered many myths. Join in to hear some of these myths, lessons learned, and war stories. Read more.

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

Location: Beekman Parlor

Building a real-time metrics database for trillions of points per day

Secondary topics: Case Study

Joel Barciauskas (Datadog)

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(2.00, 3 ratings)

As applications have increased in complexity, so have the queries needed to understand the state and performance of those systems, leading to an explosion in the volume and dimensionality of metrics. Joel Barciauskas outlines how Datadog architected its pipelines, data structures, and storage engines to answer these complex questions, all while scaling to ingest trillions of points per day. Read more.

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

Location: Beekman Parlor

Leveraging the power of the unbundled database

Secondary topics: Hands-on

Alex Silva (Pluralsight)

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(3.67, 3 ratings)

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.

1:15pm–2:05pm Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Location: Beekman Parlor

A journey for security in a multifactor auth system for a whole nation

Secondary topics: Best Practice, Case Study, Overview

Juan Saavedra (Octobot)

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(4.33, 3 ratings)

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. Read more.

2:15pm–3:05pm Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Location: Grand Ballroom West

Building a security layer around your RESTful APIs

Secondary topics: Best Practice

James Wallace (EBSCO LearningExpress)

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(2.38, 8 ratings)

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. Read more.