Conference: Nov 5-7, 2018
Workshops: Nov 8–9, 2018
Track: Going Serverless
The public cloud continues to offer new X’s in their x-as-a-service paradigm forcing us to rethink the way we build applications and the architectures that support them. The revolution is far from over with the latest transformation coming to the area of compute! Under the banner of serverless and with names like Azure functions, GCP Cloud Functions, or AWS Lambdas, this new paradigm advances the public cloud promise to provide undifferentiated heavy-lifting, allowing the developer to manage only his/her applications and some (minimal) configuration. In some respects, these cloud functions are only the latest in a portfolio of services that we have come to love and that the public vendors have been providing all along : e.g. Kinesis/Pub-sub, S3/Cloud Storage, DynamoDB/Cloud BigTable, etc…. Adding serverless compute to these other serverless offerings allows us to innovate faster, recover faster from failures, and reduce our costs. Come to this track to learn how you can leverage the latest advances in the world of Serverless from the companies that build them and build on them!
Sid Anand currently serves as PayPal's Chief Data Engineer, focusing on ways to realize the value of data. Prior to joining PayPal, he held several positions including Agari's Data Architect, a Technical Lead in Search @ LinkedIn, Netflix’s Cloud Data Architect, Etsy’s VP of Engineering, and several technical roles at eBay. Sid earned his BS and MS degrees in CS from Cornell University, where he focused on Distributed Systems. In his spare time, he is a maintainer/committer on Apache Airflow, a co-chair for QCon, and a frequent speaker at conferences. When not working, Sid spends time with his wife, Shalini, and their 2 kids.
by Jared Short
Director of Innovation @Trek10
Like a good wine and cheese, some technologies are just meant to be paired. Serverless can help you implement and scale new services rapidly. GraphQL can help you present a unified and pleasant experience for users of your services and APIs, while maintaining a complex infrastructure behind the scenes. When pairing Serverless & GraphQL you can implement some unique patterns and architectures for performance, security, and user experience gains.
In this session, we'll dive deep...
by Guy Podjarny
Co-founder @Snyk.io
Serverless rocks the security boat. Ad-hoc servers we don’t manage rids us of certain security concerns, while the proliferation of cheap micro services raises others. In this talk, we’ll experience these security concerns live. We’ll break into a vulnerable Serverless application and exploit multiple weaknesses, helping you better understand the mistakes you can make, their implications, and how you can avoid them.
by Nate Kupp
Technical Infrastructure Lead @Thumbtack
As Paul Graham writes, creating marketplaces is incredibly hard, and they take "heroic measures" to get rolling. From humble beginnings, Thumbtack today helps millions of customers complete their projects, generating more than $1B / year in business for our professionals. In this talk, I will share some of our key learnings on our journey to scale: from a PHP/PostgreSQL monolith with a self-managed Hadoop cluster, to Dockerized microservices paired with managed/...
by Ben Kehoe
Cloud Robotics Research Scientist @iRobot
iRobot entered the Smart Home market with the launch of our first internet-connected Roomba in 2015. Despite a long history of developing networked robots and selling millions of (unconnected) consumer robots per year, building an elastic, scalable cloud infrastructure for the Internet of Things was outside of our core expertise. Utilizing serverless architecture enabled us to completely bypass that undifferentiated lifting and focus on delivering features.
by Dana Engebretson
Performance Engineer @SPS Commerce
This is a story of how I took down one of our vendor’s services with an innocent serverless application. I wanted to retrieve data from one of our monitoring platforms to analyze SPS Commerce’s software performance. Initially, I wrote a script to collect the data using python multiprocessing. To gather this data in a more scalable, fast, and efficient way, I decided to pivot to a serverless architecture. Unfortunately, my solution ended up spawning requests faster than the REST API could...
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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.
