Kirk Knoernschild
ÜberConf
Denver · July 18 - 21, 2017

Software Developer & Mentor
Kirk is software developer with a passion for building great software. He takes a keen interest in design, architecture, application development platforms, agile development, and the IT industry in general, especially as it relates to software development. His recent book, Java Application Architecture was published in 2012, and presents 18 patterns that help you design modular software.
Presentations
Agile Architecture
Traditional approaches to software architecture do not address the core tenet of all agile practices - feedback! We make many of the most important architectural decisions early in the development lifecycle and fail to get accurate feedback on those decisions throughout implementation. Compounding the problem? Agile methods offer no architectural advice. This session explores several architectural practices that help increase architectural agility.
From Mono to Micro - A Demonstration of Architectural Agility
Recently, microservices have take the development community by storm. Though a modern architectural paradigm, the underlying principles of microservices are embedded across many proven traditional architectural approaches, especially modularity. At the end of the day, microservices are just one way to the increase modularity of our software system. But there are others.
Building 12 Factor Apps with Java
The way we build and deliver software is changing. We must deliver software more quickly than ever before and traditional approaches to software architecture, infrastructure and methodology do not allow us to meet demand. We’ve reached the limits of agility through process improvement alone, and further increases demand we focus on improving architecture, infrastructure, and methodology simultaneously. 12 Factor is an app development methodology for building modern apps in the modern era.