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intermediate
Thursday Oct 5 / 09:00AM PDT / FULL DAY
[SOLD OUT] AI Engineering - Building Generative AI Apps That Overcome Enterprise Barriers and Create Real Value
Product teams are scrambling to figure out what they will be doing with this latest wave of AI technologies, and engineering organizations are struggling to bring generative AI into enterprise environments.
Daniel Whitenack
Founder & Data Scientist @Prediction Guard, Co-Host of the Practical AI podcast, Previously Built Data Teams at Two Startups and an International NGO
beginner
Thursday Oct 5 / 09:00AM PDT / HALF DAY
Organizing for Fast Flow: A Practitioner's View on Implementing Team Topologies
Leaning heavily on Team Topologies (a book by Mathew Skelton and Manual Pais), this workshop explores team structures to reduce friction and improve flow.
Wes Reisz
Technical Principal @thoughtworks, Creator/Co-host of #TheInfoQPodcast, & QCon SF 2023 PC Chair, Previously Platform Architect @VMware
Anthony Ikeda
Cloud Strategist @Thoughtworks, former Architect and designer of Constant Contact Social Media platform, their first cloud product.
beginner to intermediate
Thursday Oct 5 / 09:00AM PDT / FULL DAY
Domain-Driven Analysis: Quickly Getting to Grips with a New Domain
When joining a new company or working with a new client, you need to build up an understanding of how the business works and the complexities of the existing system in order to answer questions such as:
Indu Alagarsamy
Principal Engineer @NYTimes with 15 years of Software Development Experience
intermediate
Friday Oct 6 / 09:00AM PDT / FULL DAY
Building and Productionizing LLM-Powered Applications
LLMs have gained immense popularity in recent months. An entirely new ecosystem of pre-trained models and tools has emerged that streamline the process of building LLM-powered applications.
Adam Breindel
Member of the instructional team @Anyscale
Kamil Kaczmarek
Technical Training Lead @Anyscale
beginner
Friday Oct 6 / 09:00AM PDT / HALF DAY
Building Paved Roads to Production
A repeatable and low cognitive overhead SDLC process is the spine of your engineering organization.
Andrew Fong
CEO/Co-founder @Prodvana
Friday Oct 6 / 09:00AM PDT / FULL DAY
Delivering on the Promise of DevOps Through Internal Engineering Platforms
As a Platform Engineer, how do you know if you are delivering on the investment in an internal engineering platform? What should be the measures? What does good look like?
Nic Cheneweth
Technical Principal @ThoughtWorks and Co-Creator of TW's OSS Platform Start Kits
Sean Alvarez
Cloud engineering and infrastructure architect @ThoughtWorks
beginner
Friday Oct 6 / 01:00PM PDT / HALF DAY
Developing an AppSec Program for Fast Moving Teams
Understanding what an application security program and roadmap are, why they are important and how they are structured How to measure and understand your current maturity level including how to use OWASP SAMM and OWASP ASVS for measuring your existing programs or practices from a product and life
Laura Bell Main
CEO @SafeStack
intermediate
Thursday Oct 5 / 09:00AM PDT / HALF DAY
Building Resilient, Scalable Java Applications with Distributed Databases: A Hands-on Workshop
Join us in this dynamic, hands-on workshop where we delve into the development of resilient, scalable Java applications harnessing the power of distributed databases.
Amit Chauhan
Solutions Architect @Yugabyte
intermediate
Thursday Oct 5 / 01:00PM PDT / HALF DAY
Architecting Scalable APIs with Spring Boot and Open Source Distributed Databases
Dive into this dynamic, hands-on workshop, where participants will learn the art of designing and developing scalable RESTful APIs using Spring Boot integrated with an open-source distributed database.
Amit Chauhan
Solutions Architect @Yugabyte
beginner
Thursday Oct 5 / 01:00PM PDT / HALF DAY
Lead Like Lasso – Creating Connection and Belonging in the Tech Space
As we continue to expand technology and increase our reliance on the use of artificial intelligence and algorithms, it’s more important than ever for us to be intentional about creating connection and belonging on our teams and in our organizations.
Dimple Dhabalia
Founder of @Roots in the Clouds & Creator/Co-host of the popular "Ted Lasso" themed podcast, What Would Ted Lasso Do?
beginner
Friday Oct 6 / 01:00PM PDT / HALF DAY
From Zero to Hero: A Journey Into Prometheus Monitoring
We will introduce Prometheus, its history, and its importance in the monitoring ecosystem, followed by a hands-on setup and installation session.
Prathamesh Sonpatki
Developer Evangelist @Last9.io
intermediate
Friday Oct 6 / 09:00AM PDT / HALF DAY
Microservices Orchestration: Designing Resilient Systems for the Future
Microservices have become the goto architectural pattern for building distributed applications.
Olivier Poupeney
Head of Developer Relations @Orkes
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Interesting content and approach. Brought us up to speed with observability concepts that evolve much faster than we can actually proactively keep up to.
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Architect @McKinsey & Company
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It gave a great overview & hands-on practice.
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Enterprise Architect @Viking Global Investors
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