Joe Saylor | QCon San Francisco 2018

Next QConSF Conference: Applied AI for Developers QCon.ai April 2019

Speaker: Joe Saylor

IT Director @BNSF

Joe is an experienced IT Director with a proven history of delivering solutions for the railroad industry. He is an effective information technology professional skilled in Applications and Product Delivery, Mobile Solutions, DevOps, IT Strategy, Business Process Reengineering, Enterprise Architecture, Change and Operations Management. Joe has a proven track record of building high performing teams that successfully deploy products, application platforms, and real-time systems using Open Source technologies. He is responsible for the construction of the BNSF software delivery factory using SAFe and DevOps

Talk : Practices of Platform Engineering

Track : Sponsored Solutions Track IV

Location : Pacific BC

Day of week : Wednesday

Duration : 4:10pm - 5:00pm

Agile teams in enterprises are constantly under pressure to rapidly deliver high-value features whilst meeting the deadlines and maintaining the product quality and stability. One of the main reasons for this is the time required to be spent on setting up the foundational platform capabilities which at times are under estimated. If each development team creates its own platform, the whole enterprise winds up with a large, complex architecture that is difficult to maintain, hard to staff engineers and brittle to operate.

The preferred future for enterprise IT organizations is to invest in a shared Platform Engineering function whose charter is to support application development teams with a platform or set of platforms that they can build on top of. Platform engineering team empowers organizations to reduce lead times to utilize common services and embrace constant change in technology.

This talks presents various approaches on how a platform engineering team can lay the digital foundation.

Tracks

Monday, 5 November

Microservices / Serverless Patterns & Practices

Evolving, observing, persisting, and building modern microservices
Practices of DevOps & Lean Thinking

Practical approaches using DevOps & Lean Thinking
JavaScript & Web Tech

Beyond JavaScript in the Browser. Exploring WebAssembly, Electron, & Modern Frameworks
Modern CS in the Real World

Thoughts pushing software forward, including consensus, CRDT's, formal methods, & probabilistic programming
Modern Operating Systems

Applied, practical, & real-world deep-dive into industry adoption of OS, containers and virtualization, including Linux on Windows, LinuxKit, and Unikernels
Optimizing You: Human Skills for Individuals

Better teams start with a better self. Learn practical skills for IC

Tuesday, 6 November

Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Next-gen architectures from the most admired companies in software, such as Netflix, Google, Facebook, Twitter, & more
21st Century Languages

Lessons learned from languages like Rust, Go-lang, Swift, Kotlin, and more.
Emerging Trends in Data Engineering

Showcasing DataEng tech and highlighting the strengths of each in real-world applications.
Bare Knuckle Performance

Killing latency and getting the most out of your hardware
Socially Conscious Software

Building socially responsible software that protects users privacy & safety
Delivering on the Promise of Containers

Runtime containers, libraries, and services that power microservices

Wednesday, 7 November

Applied AI & Machine Learning

Applied machine learning lessons for SWEs, including tech around TensorFlow, TPUs, Keras, PyTorch, & more
Production Readiness: Building Resilient Systems

More than just building software, building deployable production ready software
Developer Experience: Level up your Engineering Effectiveness

Improving the end to end developer experience - design, dev, test, deploy, operate/understand.
Security: Lessons Attacking & Defending

Security from the defender's AND the attacker's point of view
Future of Human Computer Interaction

IoT, voice, mobile: Interfaces pushing the boundary of what we consider to be the interface
Enterprise Languages

Workhorse languages found in modern enterprises. Expect Java, .NET, & Node in this track

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