Brian Sletten
Salt Lake Software Symposium
Salt Lake City · June 3 - 4, 2016
Forward Leaning Software Engineer @ Bosatsu Consulting
Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. His experience has spanned many industries including retail, banking, online games, defense, finance, hospitality and health care. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and lives in Auburn, CA. He focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, AI/ML, data science, 3D graphics, visualization, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries. He is also a rabid reader, devoted foodie and has excellent taste in music. If pressed, he might tell you about his International Pop Recording career.
Presentations
Identity
How do we define identity in a distributed software system? How do we manage it securely? How do we make identity assertions and verify those claims?
Technologies don't magically become solutions. They are used within domain, design and deployment contexts. This talk will focus on the singular notion of Identity and how it cross-cuts the distributed systems we are building.
Privilege
Authenticated Identities are the first step to establish Privilege. Most systems fail to have sufficiently, deeply entrenched notion of how to apply and minimize privilege to avoid data and systems from being abused.
Technologies don't magically become solutions. They are used within domain, design and deployment contexts. This talk will focus on the singular notion of Privilege and how it cross-cuts the distributed systems we are building.
Integration
Data integration costs are well beyond what they should be for such a crucial business function. The good news is that they needn't be. By relying on integration-friendly standards and technologies that were designed to support sharing information, we can reduce these costs while increasing our business capabilities.
Technologies don't magically become solutions. They are used within domain, design and deployment contexts. This talk will focus on the singular notion of Integration and how it cross-cuts the distributed systems we are building.
Evolution
Our biological world changes gracefully. Our information world changes much less so. How can we embrace the inevitable technological, procedural and schematic flux that we know is going to visit upon us at some point?
Technologies don't magically become solutions. They are used within domain, design and deployment contexts. This talk will focus on the singular notion of Evolution and how it cross-cuts the distributed systems we are building.