Host: Gwen Shapira
Gwen is a principal data architect at Confluent helping customers to achieve success with their Apache Kafka implementation. She has 15 years of experience working with code and customers to build scalable data architectures, integrating microservices, relational and big data technologies. She currently specializes in building real-time reliable data processing pipelines using Apache Kafka. Gwen is an author of “Kafka - the Definitive Guide”, "Hadoop Application Architectures", and a frequent presenter at industry conferences. Gwen is also a committer on the Apache Kafka and Apache Sqoop projects. When Gwen isn't coding or building data pipelines, you can find her pedaling on her bike exploring the roads and trails of California, and beyond.
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Tracks
Monday, 11 November
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Hard-earned lessons from names you know on scalability, reliability, throughput, and performance.
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Languages of Infrastructure
This track explores languages being used to code the infrastructure. Expect practices on toolkits and languages like Cloudformation, Terraform, Python, Go, Rust, Erlang.
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Building & Scaling High-Performing Teams
To have a high-performing team, everybody on it has to feel and act like an owner. Organizational health and psychological safety are foundational underpinnings to support ownership.
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Bare Knuckle Performance
Killing latency and getting the most out of your hardware
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Ethics, Regulation, Risk, and Compliance
With so much uncertainty, how do you bulkhead your organization and technology choices? Learn strategies for dealing with uncertainty.
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Software Supply Chain
Life of a software artifact from commit to deployment. Security, observability and provenance of the software supply chain.
Tuesday, 12 November
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Practices of DevOps & Lean Thinking
Practical approaches using DevOps and a lean approach to delivering software.
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Modern CS in the Real World
Thoughts pushing software forward, including consensus, CRDT's, formal methods & probabilistic programming.
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Socially Conscious Software
Power of leadership, Engineering Metrics and strategies for shaping the org for velocity.
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Modern Data Architectures
Today’s systems move huge volumes of data. Hear how places like LinkedIn, Facebook, Uber and more built their systems and learn from their mistakes.
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Microservices Patterns & Practices
What's the last mile for deploying your service? Learn techniques from the world's most innovative shops on managing and operating Microservices at scale.
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Pushing the Web Forward: JavaScript, Frameworks, Transpilers, and WebAssembly
JavaScript is the language of the web. Latest practices for JavaScript development in and how transpilers are affecting the way we work. We’ll also look at the work being done with WebAssembly.
Wednesday, 13 November
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Living on the Edge: The World of Edge Compute From Device to Infrastructure Edge
IOT/IIOT, Federated Learning, Application Gateways, Serverless, Kubernetes, WASM/WASI all at the edge? This track explores what’s being done at the modern edge.
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Trust, Safety & Security
Privacy, confidentiality, safety and security: learning from the frontlines.
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Machine Learning for Developers
AI/ML is more approachable than ever. Discover how deep learning and ML is being used in practice. Topics include: TensorFlow, TPUs, Keras, PyTorch & more. No PhD required.
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Production Readiness: Building Resilient Systems
Making systems resilient involves people and tech. Learn about strategies being used from chaos testing to distributed systems clustering.
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Evolving the JVM
The JVM continues to evolve. We’ll look at how things are evolving. Covering Kotlin, Clojure, Java, OpenJDK, and Graal. Expect polyglot, multi-VM, performance, and more.
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Optimizing Yourself: Human Skills for Individuals
Better teams start with a better self. Learn practical skills for IC.