Speaker: Kirk Pepperdine
Kirk has been working in high performance and distributed computing for nearly 20 years. His focus has primarily been on performance, working on architecting, developing, and tuning applications running on Cray and other high performance computing platforms. Kirk now specializes in Java, where he works in all aspects of performance and tuning in each phase of a project life cycle. Author, speaker, consultant, Kirk was recognized as a 2006 Java Champion recipient for his contributions to the Java community. @kcpeppe
Proposed Tracks
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Practices of DevOps & Lean Thinking
Practical approaches using DevOps and a lean approach to delivering software.
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Operationalizing Microservices: Design, Deliver, Operate
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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Developer Experience: Level up your Engineering Effectiveness
Improving the end to end developer experience - design, dev, test, deploy and operate/understand.
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Next-gen architectures from the most admired companies in software, such as Netflix, Google, Facebook, Twitter, & more
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Machine Learning without a PhD
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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Building Predictive Data Pipelines
From personalized news feeds to engaging experiences that forecast demand: learn how innovators are building predictive systems in modern application development.
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Modern Languages: The Right Language for the Job
We're polyglot developers. Learn languages that excel at very specific tasks and remove undifferentiated heavy lifting at the language level.
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Delivering on the Promise of Containers
Runtime containers, libraries and services that power microservices.
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Evolving Java & the JVM
6 month cadence, cloud-native deployments, scale, Graal, Kotlin, and beyond. Learn how the role of Java and the JVM is evolving.
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Trust, Safety & Security
Privacy, confidentiality, safety and security: learning from the frontlines.
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Beyond the Web: What’s Next for JavaScript
JavaScript is the language of the web. Latest practices for JavaScript development in and out of the browser topics: react, serverless, npm, performance, & less traditional interfaces.
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Modern Operating Systems
Applied, practical & real-world deep-dive into industry adoption of OS, containers and virtualization, including Linux on.
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Optimizing You: Human Skills for Individuals
Better teams start with a better self. Learn practical skills for IC.
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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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Human Systems: Hacking the Org
Power of leadership, Engineering Metrics and strategies for shaping the org for velocity.
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Building High-Performing Teams
Building, maintaining, and growing a team balanced for skills and aptitudes. Constraint theory, systems thinking, lean, hiring/firing and performance improvement
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Software Defined Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Service Meshes & Beyond
Deploying, scaling and managing your services is undifferentiated heavy lifting. Hear stories, learn techniques and dive deep into what it means to code your infrastructure.
