Ken Sipe
ÜberConf
Denver · July 17 - 20, 2018
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
Are you Mocking Me (with Spock)
Spock is a groovy based testing framework that leverages all the “best practices” of the last several years taking advantage of many of the development experience of the industry. So combine Junit, BDD, RSpec, Groovy and Vulcans… and you get Spock!
There are 3 tools I use on every Java project I control… this is one of them and with good reason.
Java 9 Memory and GC
So your server is having issues? memory? Connections? Limited response? Is the first solution to bounce the server? Perhaps change some VM flags or add some logging? In todays Java 9 world, with its superior runtime monitoring and management capabilities the reasons to the bounce the server have been greatly reduced.
Kubernetes Deep Dive
In the container orchestration space, one of the top contenders is Kubernetes (K8S). This session will go into detail of each component in Kubernetes along with how to use it. Anyone attending this session should be able to easy get stated with K8S and have an understanding of what they would need to do to their application to enable it to be K8S friendly.
To 99.99 and Beyond
When architecting a critical system the Availability of CAP theorem becomes the most important element. Architecture measures availability in 9s with 99.99% equating less than 1 hour of unplanned downtime. This session will focus on what it takes to get there.
Container Friendly Java 9
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.
Flying through Cloud Native (CNCF)
The maturing of industry projects and tools around cloud development and administration has led to the formation of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. This new foundation is similar to the Apache Foundation in that it provides governance over projects from incubation to maturity. These projects define the current and future standards of the cloud which is important for all devops teams to be aware of. This session is a guided at jet speed tour of each project and how it fits in the eco-system.