Ken Sipe
Rocky Mountain Software Symposium
Denver · November 21 - 23, 2014
Cloud Architect & Tech Leader
Ken is a distributed application engineer. Ken has worked with Fortune 500 companies to small startups in the roles of developer, designer, application architect and enterprise architect. Ken's current focus is on containers, container orchestration, high scale micro-service design and continuous delivery systems.
Ken is an international speaker on the subject of software engineering speaking at conferences such as JavaOne, JavaZone, Great Indian Developer Summit (GIDS), and The Strange Loop. He is a regular speaker with NFJS where he is best known for his architecture and security hacking talks. In 2009, Ken was honored by being awarded the JavaOne Rockstar Award at JavaOne in SF, California and the JavaZone Rockstar Award at JavaZone in Oslo, Norway as the top ranked speaker.
Presentations
Introduction to Java 8
Java 8 is finally released. We haven't seen this number of changes to Java the language since Java 5. This session will provide a review of the changes to Java 8 with a focus on the language changes such as the addition of lambdas which will either have you excited for a language feature which allows you to express what you want vs. how you want it or will have you concerned about readability in your code base.
Fault Tolerance to a Fault
If there is a safe bet, it is that everything fails. From hard drives to power supplies, from routers to software, everything fails. Frankly a planned upgrade of a production service is planned down time, or a failure to continue services for a planned period of time.
This session will look at planning for failure by deploying into an Apache Mesos cluster.
Scaling up on the web
The drive to continuous delivery, micro services and PaaS includes the need to auto scale and potentially auto provision services. This session will identify the legacy thinking of a statically partitioned world and drive to the scalable world of Apache Mesos.
Networks for Programmers
In the words of John Gage, “The network is the computer”. At the heart of everything we do is a complex system of infrastructure from which we are often abstracted. For general application development this abstraction provides the convenience of simplifying our efforts. With a growing number of mobil applications with intermittent connectivity and higher latency, and with increased hostility on the network from a security standpoint, there is great value in pulling back the curtain and understanding the details of this computer.