Build Systems that Drive Business
30–31 Oct 2018: Training
31 Oct–2 Nov 2018: Tutorials & Conference
London, UK

Schedule: Systems Engineering and Architecture sessions

As you migrate to the cloud and adopt technologies like serverless or edge computing, how does this change how you engineer systems? What new architectures make the most sense? How do these architectures change your systems infrastructure? Learn more about how people are building these new systems and infrastructures in this track.

13:15–13:55 Friday, 2 November 2018
Everything you wanted to know about monorepos but were afraid to ask
Location: Blenheim Room - Palace Suite
Simon Stewart (Selenium Project)
Average rating: ****.
(4.50, 2 ratings)
Microservices, lambdas, configuration as code, and a plethora of languages being used to write to production services are becoming more common and widespread. So why should you choose to use a monorepo? Simon Stewart explains what a monrepo is and how to get the most out of it. Read more.
14:10–14:50 Friday, 2 November 2018
Building a distributed real-time stream processing system
Location: Buckingham Room - Palace Suite
Secondary topics:  Systems Monitoring & Orchestration
A boyle (New Relic)
Average rating: ***..
(3.57, 7 ratings)
Amy Boyle walks you through building, scaling, and monitoring a stream processing pipeline. Read more.
14:10–14:50 Friday, 2 November 2018
Migrating millions of customers to public cloud
Location: Blenheim Room - Palace Suite
Secondary topics:  Resilient, Performant & Secure Distributed Systems
Siddharth Ram (Intuit)
Average rating: ***..
(3.33, 3 ratings)
Siddharth Ram explains how Intuit moved millions of customers from private infrastructure to the public cloud, covering missteps, successes, and lessons learned along the way. Read more.
15:40–16:20 Friday, 2 November 2018
Architecting for TV
Location: Blenheim Room - Palace Suite
Secondary topics:  Systems Architecture & Infrastructure
David Buckhurst (BBC), Ross Wilson (BBC)
Average rating: **...
(2.50, 4 ratings)
Launched 10 years ago, the BBC's iPlayer on TV has become the largest iPlayer platform. David Buckhurst and Ross Wilson explore the evolution of the BBC's TV application architecture, from the early days courting different native technologies to the development of an open source library and standards-based platform that supports multiple BBC applications across thousands of TVs. Read more.
16:35–17:15 Friday, 2 November 2018
Victims of our own success: How Phorest addressed its scalability challenges
Location: Buckingham Room - Palace Suite
Secondary topics:  Systems Architecture & Infrastructure
John Doran (Phorest)
Average rating: **...
(2.00, 3 ratings)
Phorest's platform hit huge scaling issues as its business grew. John Doran shares the ups and downs of coping with a rapidly scaling product and explains how the system got into that state of distress, what Phorest could have done earlier to avoid it, and how the company addressed the problem by adapting a continuous improvement mindset, using distributed architecture, Docker, and AWS. Read more.