Speaker: Gregor Hohpe

Author of "Enterprise Integration Patterns" and "The Software Architect Elevator", Cloud Architect, Member of IEEE Software Advisory Board, Previously @AWS, @Google, and @Allianz

Gregor helps technology leaders transform both their organization and their technology platform. You’ll find him riding the Architect Elevator from the engine room to the penthouse, perhaps automating serverless solutions in the morning and preparing board presentations in the afternoon. His favorite pastime is dissecting buzzwords and replacing them with meaningful decisions and architectural trade-offs.

Gregor is known as co-author of the seminal book Enterprise Integration Patterns, which provided the reference vocabulary for all modern ESBs. His book The Software Architect Elevator tells stories from the trenches of IT transformation while his articles have been featured in Best Software Writing by Joel Spolsky and 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know. He is an active member of the IEEE Software advisory board.

Session

Thinking Like an Architect

Are architects supposed to be the smartest people on the team, making all the important decisions for developers to fill in the blanks? Certainly not. Rather, architects make everyone else smarter, for example by sharing decision models or revealing blind spots.

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Date

Wednesday Nov 20 / 10:35AM PST ( 50 minutes )

Location

Ballroom A

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Training

10 Truths in Distributed System Design

Most modern applications are distributed, integrate with third-party services, and expose APIs. Although the cloud, serverless, and automation have made distributed systems management easier, fundamental challenges like latency, throttling, or out-of-order delivery remain.

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Date

Thursday Nov 21 / 09:00AM PST ( 3 hours )

Location

Seacliff D

Level

Level intermediate to advanced

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Training

Platform Strategy: Innovation Through Harmonization

Today’s tech is nothing short of amazing, but it can also be amazingly complex. That’s why many organizations look to platforms to rewrite the laws of IT physics: they boost innovation through standards; they speed up development while assuring compliance; and they reduce cognitive load without restricting choice. Building such an in-house platform, or even deploying one, is far from easy, though. Based on a decade of building platforms both as end-user and provider, this workshop dives into the nuances of what makes a platform, how to define useful abstractions, and the design trade-offs that platform teams have to make.
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Date

Thursday Nov 21 / 01:00PM PST ( 3 hours )

Location

Seacliff D

Level

Level intermediate

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