Conference: Nov 5-7, 2018
Workshops: Nov 8–9, 2018
Track: Sponsored Solutions Track II
Industry practitioners and technical product managers from leading vendors demonstrate solutions to some of today's toughest software development challenges in the areas of performance monitoring, Big Data, software delivery, scalability, and more.
Nitin has helped build several notable online developer communities including TheServerSide.com, DZone, and The Code Project. He is known for his extensive editorial work in the Enterprise Java, .NET, SOA, and Agile communities. As Managing Editor and Product Manager at C4Media - the producer of InfoQ.com and QCon events - Nitin continues to pursue his primary passion: helping spread knowledge and innovation throughout the enterprise software development community.
by Omer Azmon
Staff Tools Engineer @Intuit
by Sumit Nagal
Principal Engineer in Quality @Intuit
Intuit’s Small Business Group is responsible for one of the company’s flagship products, QuickBooks. As one of the biggest business units in the company, its main objective is to improve velocity and productivity for every engineer. Fast and feature rich release cycles are critical to QuickBooks' success.
In this talk, Omer Azmon, Staff Tools Engineer, and Sumit Nagal, Principal Engineer in Quality, will uncover how Intuit automates tasks that take the average engineering team days or...
by Sheroy Marker
Head Of Technology @ThoughtWorks
This talk serves to be a practical guide for teams endeavoring to design a Continuous Delivery workflow for systems based on microservice architectures.
More and more organizations are moving towards microservice based architectures for their complex systems. Unfortunately organizational behaviors often do not change to properly take advantage of this newer way of thinking.
This talk is based on several years’ of experience architecting, building and deploying microservice...
by Ketan Gangatirkar
Senior Director of Engineering - Job Seeker Products @Indeed
Indeed has been conducting A/B tests for a decade on millions of job seekers around the world. Over the years, we learned a lot. Many of our practices are built into Proctor, our open source A/B testing framework.
In this talk, I will cover requirements for A/B testing at scale, the architecture and algorithms behind Proctor, and best practices for running A/B tests. Learn how you can apply Proctor in your own products to get the benefits of rapid, data-driven experimentation.
by Chris McFadden
VP of Engineering @Sparkpost
Steve Jobs once said, “Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.” This is certainly true when it comes to building a simple and easy-to- use API. SparkPost used microservices to build v1 of their email API. Since launching three years ago it continues to grow in functionality and gather more developer fans. Chris shares some lessons learned and best practices for building an API that developers will love for years to come. Some...
by Will Shulman
CEO @mLab
Carbon.io is an application framework based on Node.js and MongoDB that dramatically accelerates the process of building, testing, and documenting well-designed APIs and microservices.
In this talk we will walk through a series of live examples starting with a simple “Hello World!” app and ending with a full-featured REST API. Topics covered will include endpoint creation, input and output validation, database access, and authentication and access control. Finally, you will see how...
by Nicolas DeRico
MySQL Principal Sales Consultant
The last few years saw the advent of JavaScript on the server-side, and particularly Node.js. The schema-less literal objects known as JSON that are used to express data-structures are key to the dynamic functional nature of the language.
Matching this environment, MySQL recently introduced the MySQL Document Store, which enables using a regular MySQL database to manage schema-less data organized in JSON documents. This presentation will describe the key concepts of the MySQL Document...
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Tracks
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Architectural practices from the world's most well-known properties, featuring startups, massive scale, evolving architectures, and software tools used by nearly all of us.
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Going Serverless
Learn about the state of Serverless & how to successfully leverage it! Lessons learned in the track hit on security, scalability, IoT, and offer warnings to watch out for.
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Microservices: Patterns and Practices
Stories of success and failure building modern Microservices, including event sourcing, reactive, decomposition, & more.
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DevOps: You Build It, You Run It
Pushing DevOps beyond adoption into cultural change. Hear about designing resilience, managing alerting, CI/CD lessons, & security. Features lessons from open source, Linkedin, Netflix, Financial Times, & more.
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The Art of Chaos Engineering
Failure is going to happen - Are you ready? Chaos engineering is an emerging discipline - What is the state of the art?
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The Whole Engineer
Success as an engineer is more than writing code. Hear inward looking thoughts on inclusion, attitude, leadership, remote working, and not becoming the brilliant jerk.
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Evolving Java
Java continues to evolve & change. Track covers Spring 5, async, Kotlin, serverless, the 6-month cadence plans, & AI/ML use cases.
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Security: Attacking and Defending
Offense and defensive security evolution that application developers should know about including SGX Enclaves, effects of AI, software exploitation techniques, & crowd defense
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The Practice & Frontiers of AI
Learn about machine learning in practice and on the horizon. Learn about ML at Quora, Uber's Michelangelo, ML workflow with Netflix Meson and topics on Bots, Conversational interfaces, automation, and deployment practices in the space.
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21st Century Languages
Compile to Native, Microservices, Machine learning... tailor-made languages solving modern challenges, featuring use cases around Go, Rust, C#, and Elm.
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Modern CS in the Real World
Applied trends in Computer Science that are likely to affect Software Engineers today. Topics include category theory, crypto, CRDT's, logic-based automated reasoning, and more.
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Stream Processing In The Modern Age
Compelling applications of stream processing using Flink, Beam, Spark, Strymon & recent advances in the field, including Custom Windowing, Stateful Streaming, SQL over Streams.
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Performance Mythbusting
Real world, applied performance proofs across stacks. Hear performance consideratiosn for .NET, Python, & Java. Learn performance use cases with OpenJ9, Instagram, and Netflix.
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Tools and Culture: What's Beyond a Stack of Containers?
Containers are not just a techology. It's a platform. Push your knowledge.
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Web as Platform
All things Browser, from JavaScript Frameworks for animation and AR / VR to Web Assembly and from protocol work to open standards evolution.
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Beyond Being an Individual Contributor
Beyond being an individual contributor. Building and Evolving managers and tech leadership.
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Building Great Engineering Cultures
Why engineering culture matters. Track features org scaling, memes as a culture tool, Ally skills, and panels on diversity / inclusion.
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Hardware Frontiers: Changes Affecting Software Developers Today
Topics around: Quantum computing, NVM, SMR, GPU, custom hardware, self-driving cars, and mobile hardware.
