Tracks

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.
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.
Microservices: Patterns and Practices

Stories of success and failure building modern Microservices, including event sourcing, reactive, decomposition, & more.
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.
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?
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.

Evolving Java

Java continues to evolve & change. Track covers Spring 5, async, Kotlin, serverless, the 6-month cadence plans, & AI/ML use cases.
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
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.
21st Century Languages

Compile to Native, Microservices, Machine learning... tailor-made languages solving modern challenges, featuring use cases around Go, Rust, C#, and Elm.
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.
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.

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.
Tools and Culture: What's Beyond a Stack of Containers?

Containers are not just a techology. It's a platform. Push your knowledge.
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.
Beyond Being an Individual Contributor

Beyond being an individual contributor. Building and Evolving managers and tech leadership.
Building Great Engineering Cultures

Why engineering culture matters. Track features org scaling, memes as a culture tool, Ally skills, and panels on diversity / inclusion.
Hardware Frontiers: Changes Affecting Software Developers Today

Topics around: Quantum computing, NVM, SMR, GPU, custom hardware, self-driving cars, and mobile hardware.