Operating Microservices: Patterns for Success

Microservices solve numerous problems around cognitive load, velocity, isolation, and scalability - if you get them right!

In Operating Microservices: Patterns for Sucess, we bring you practical advice around what good really looks like with system observability, patterns of integrating with legacy codebases, and situations when microservices were NOT the right answer, and the most common issues encountered when it comes to day 2 operations with microservices. 

Microservices are an effective way to solve many problems in software, but it’s also a great way to introduce them if not done (and operated) well.


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Session

Unconference: Microservices

Tuesday Oct 25 / 10:35AM PDT

What is an unconference? At QCon SF, we’ll have unconferences in most of our tracks.

Speaker image - Shane Hastie
Shane Hastie

Global Delivery Lead for SoftEd and Lead Editor for Culture & Methods at InfoQ.com

Session Microservices

Dark Energy, Dark Matter and the Microservices Patterns?!

Tuesday Oct 25 / 11:50AM PDT

Dark matter and dark energy are mysterious concepts from astrophysics that are used to explain observations of distant stars and galaxies.

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Chris Richardson

Creator of microservices.io, Java Champion, & Core Microservices Thoughtleader

Session Microservices

Orchestration vs Choreography, A Guide To Composing Your Monolith

Tuesday Oct 25 / 01:40PM PDT

Microservices promise rapid evolution, operational independence, and technological freedom but come with imperceptible drag factors. Left unchecked, this drag leads to distributed balls of mud – hard to operate, evolve and maintain.

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Ian Thomas

VP, Web Architecture @GenesisGlobalX

Session Microservices

[Recording] Overcomplicated Architecture: Scaling Bottleneck

Tuesday Oct 25 / 02:55PM PDT

As a digital scale-up continues to gain momentum and grow rapidly, one of the key determining factors of success is how quickly they can evolve their product. The business desires to push features to production as fast as possible and prove value to its customers.

Speaker image - Cassandra Shum
Cassandra Shum

Technologist | Architect | Ex-Thoughtworks

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Untrusted Execution: Attacking the Cloud Native Supply Chain

Tuesday Oct 25 / 04:10PM PDT

Should we trust the code we run in production? Not if a motivated attacker can compromise our system’s complex supply chains. While hardened runtimes and detection can mitigate some zero day attacks, malicious internal threat actors and software implants are much harder to detect.

Speaker image - Francesco Beltramini
Francesco Beltramini

Security Engineering Manager @controlplaneio

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Panel: Building Performant Microservice Architectures

Tuesday Oct 25 / 05:25PM PDT

Microservices improve cognitive load, velocity, isolation, and scalability. They also introduce complexity, increased reliance on the network, observability challenges, and, often, request latency.

Speaker image - Chris Richardson
Chris Richardson

Creator of microservices.io, Java Champion, & Core Microservices Thoughtleader

Speaker image - Ian Thomas
Ian Thomas

VP, Web Architecture @GenesisGlobalX

Speaker image - Todd Montgomery
Todd Montgomery

Ex Researcher @Nasa, Engineering Fellow @ Adaptive Financial Consulting and a High Performance Distributed Systems Whisperer

Track Host

Wes Reisz

Technical Principal @thoughtworks, Creator/Co-host of #TheInfoQPodcast, & QCon SF 2023 PC Chair, Previously Platform Architect @VMware

Wes is a Technical Principal with Thoughtworks where his focus is on working with customers on app modernization, with a particular focus on the cloud native ecosystem. Prior to Thoughtworks, he was one of the Platform Architects at VMware focused on Tanzu. Wes also chairs the San Francisco edition of QCon and is one of the co-hosts of The InfoQ Podcast. His interests focus around architecture, cloud compute, app modernization, and, of course,  the cloud-native ecosystem.

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