Ken Sipe
Gateway Software Symposium
St. Louis · April 15 - 16, 2016
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
Java 8/9 Memory and Garbage Collectors
A look into Java memory including Metaspace and garbage collectors including G1.
Living in a Container
Containers and Micro-service are like peanut butter and jelly, they just go together. However do you know how resources are managed in a container and how that affects your application. This session will dive into how Java is affected living under control groups.
LAMBDA Architecture
When you hear the term “Internet of Things (IoT)” what do you think of? From a customer perspective it is a bunch of cool gadgets. From the datacenter perspective IoT == the onslaught of data and previously unprecedented scale.
This presentation is provide a walk through of the technologies necessary to dynamically create in data pipelines and process them for near real-time access to analytics.
Starting a Spark
Apache Spark is quickly taking over the MapReduce space of Hadoop and with good reason. This session will provide an overview of Spark, how it works and the different packages it brings to the world of data analytics.
Pro Docker Workshop
The popularity of Docker as a micro-services tool has many organizations looking to put docker into production. With years of experience working with leading edge organizations, this workshop will not only teach Docker, but will provide real-world advice on how to work with Docker for production.