While rummaging through some books the other day, I came across my copy of The Pragmatic Programmer. Flipping to the copyright page, I realized that it had been 16 years since its publication. Many of our careers have been deeply affected by reading and considering the many nuggets of wisdom contained in this book, and it is near the top of multiple recommended reading lists.

In this presentation, we’ll revisit this book, and we’ll also consider what we’ve learned since its publication - what would we change? And what remains timeless?

Many of us would love to embrace microservices in our day-to-day work. But most of us don’t have the opportunity to start over with a pure greenfield effort. We have to understand how to refactor our existing monolithic applications toward microservices. Practical steps include building new features as microservices, leveraging anti-corruption layers, strangling the monolith.

In this presentation we’ll go light on the theory and walk through the actual process of turning a strawman monolith into a family of well-factored microservices.

As we build distributed systems composed of microservices, we introduce new potential performance problems and failure points. As the number of nodes in our system increases, these problems rapidly amplify. In order to keep our composite systems responsive, we can apply the techniques of reactive programming. In order to keep our composite systems healthy, we can apply fault tolerance patterns like circuit breakers and bulkheads.

In this presentation we’ll examine how to leverage two popular libraries from Netflix, Hystrix and RxJava, to create reactive and fault tolerant systems.

In this session, we will take a look at Angular - the powerful MVVM SPA framework from Google. We will discuss some of the terminology that Angular offers, and see how we can use that to develop highly interactive, dynamic web applications. See “Detail” for a list of topics I cover and the Github repo URL

In this session we will take a look at Angular and using it to develop rich web applications. Angular embraces HTML and CSS, allowing you to extend HTML towards your application, and uses plain JavaScript which makes your code easy to reuse, and test.

Note: This is an intro level talk. It is targeted towards developers who are curious about Angular and want to learn about the fundamental features and concepts in Angular.

Topics Covered -

• Bootstrapping an AngularJS application using ng-app
• ng-init and the evaluation {{ }} directive
• A brief look at $rootScope and scoping rules
• ng-model
• Controllers, Dependency Injection, and the View-Model
• Looping using ng-repeat
• Forms using ng-form, form validation and submission in AngularJS
• ng-messages to display form validation messages to the user
• Angular provided filters and custom filters

GitHub URL - https://github.com/looselytyped/angudone-workshop/tree/solutions

In this session, we will take a look at Angular - the powerful MVVM SPA framework from Google. We will discuss some of the terminology that Angular offers, and see how we can use that to develop highly interactive, dynamic web applications. See “Detail” for a list of topics I cover and the Github repo URL

In this session we continue our discussion from Part I. As we continue to evolve our application we will seek to use, and understand a few more of AngularJS' core constructs.

• Factories and services
• Routing using ng-view and $routeProvider
• AJAX calls to a backend using $http

If time permits we will look at a few good practices when developing AngularJS applications, ways to modularize your code, and some tools that aid in the development of AngularJS applications.

Asynchronous AJAX calls, especially those that deal with REST principles are something that all client side frameworks support, and AngularJS is no different. However, in order to truly benefit from AngularJS's support for asynchronous calls, one must understand the various moving parts that make this a reality. This includes promises (with AngularJS' $q library), $http and $resource.

In this session we will explore all the three components that make async calls in AngularJS possible. We will start with understanding the “why” of promises, and how we are to consume and produce promises. We will then dive into some of the inner workings of $http and how it leverages promises under the covers. We will end with an overview of $resource, which combines $http and promises to make working with REST-ful resources a breeze.

Understand Java from a functional programming point of view. This part covers the basics of lambdas and streams, emphasizing functional programming by transforming collections using the stream approach.

Also includes method references and static and default methods in interfaces.

Functional features in Java, including parallel streams, the java.util.function package, the Optional data type, and reduction operations.

The talk also covers the new date and time package based on Joda time, as well as collectors and implementing the Collector interface.

Java SE 8 introduces many new features that can simplify your code. Using streams, lambdas, and the new Optional type all change the way we write Java. In this presentation, we'll work through a series of examples that show how to rewrite existing code from Java 7 or earlier using the new Java 8 approach.

Examples will include replacing anonymous inner classes with lambdas, switching from iterating over collections into transforming streams, using immutables wherever possible, lazy evaluation, and more.

In this session, we'll explore Spring Cloud, the extension to Spring which addresses many of the common challenges of developing cloud native applications. We'll focus primarily on Spring Cloud's support for centralized configuration, service discovery, and failover/monitoring.

You wouldn't write your entire application in a single main() method or servlet. Nor would you develop an entire production-ready application in a single class. It's even unlikely that you'd cram everything into a single package.

Modularity helps us gain order in our code, breaking it into easily digestible, refactorable, pluggable, and testable chunks. Classes and methods are a form of modularity that we're all familiar with. But once the code is built, modularity goes away and we're left deploying a single WAR file.

Aside from being buzzword-compliant, Microservices are a means of defining entire systems from composable, but distinct deployment units gaining all of the benefits of finer-grained modularity.

Microservices present new challenges to developers, however. How do you configure your microservices? How are microservices discovered? And how can you avoid a cascading failure when one microservice becomes sluggish, unresponsive, or otherwise unhealthy?

In this session, we'll look at Spring Cloud Data Flow, a cloud native programming and operating model for composable data microservices on a structured platform.

Microservices are commonly thought of as small REST-based services that are assembled to form a larger, more complete application. In reality, however, REST is only the communication mechanism which is only a implementation detail and not intrinsic to the notion of microservices.

Meanwhile, data processing and integration between various components of an application and external services is a key factor of many applications. In cloud native applications, this kind of data flow and processing is still relevant. Spring Cloud Data Flow offers a solution for data processing and integration where each step in the flow is, in fact, a microservice…but not necessarily a REST service.

In this session, we'll open the hood on Spring Boot and see how it works. Using this knowledge, we'll look at ways to optimize Spring Boot, override autoconfiguration, and create custom extensions to Spring Boot's Actuator.

Spring Boot does many wonderful things that get you well on your way to developing amazing Spring applications. But how does it tick? How can you customize it? And how can you override it's default autoconfiguration when you want something a little different?

Security is an important aspect of any application. For many years, Spring Security has been the go-to framework for securing Spring-based application. But historically Spring Security has been cumbersome to work with, involving an enormous amount of XML configuration to shape an application's security scheme.

In recent versions of Spring Security, however, XML-based configuration has taken a backseat to a powerful Java-based configuration option. Spring Security's Java-based configuration offers a fluent API for defining the security constraints for an application which is easy to read and eliminates the need for klunky XML configuration. On top of Spring Security's own configuration improvements, Spring Boot autoconfiguration makes it incredibly easy to get started securing your application, minimizing even the amount of Java configuration required.

In this session, we'll take a look at what's involved in securing a Spring application with Spring Security. In doing so, we'll take full advantage of Spring Boot to autoconfigure as much security as we can get away with and then rely solely on Spring Security's Java-based configuration to shape the security aspect of an application. We'll also briefly look at how to use Spring Security when securing microservices.

By the end of this conference you will have learned many new tools and technologies. The easy part is done, now for the hard part: getting the rest of the teamand managementon board with the new ideas. Easier said than done.

Whether you want to effect culture change in your organization, lead the transition toward a new technology, or are simply asking for better tools; you must first understand that having a “good idea” is just the beginning. How can you dramatically increase your odds of success?

You will learn 12 concrete strategies to build consensus within your team as well as 6 technique to dramatically increase the odds that the other person will say “Yes” to your requests.

As a professional mentalist, Michael has been a student of psychology, human behavior and the principles of influence for nearly two decades. There are universal principles of influence that neccessary to both understand and leverage if you want to be more effective leader of change in your organization.

In this session we discuss strategies for getting your team on board as well as when/how to approach management within the department and also higherup in the organization.

It happens to us all; there are simply days where it seems impossible to get anything done. This session focuses on techniques and tips to get into the zone, stay in the zone and to protect your productivity, even in disruptive environments.

Rather than focusing on any one productivity methodology (e.g. GTD) This talk analyzes the internal and external factors that affect our productivity and offers broader strategies to get back on track.

Concourse (http://concourse.ci/) is a CI system composed of simple tools and ideas. Concourse can express entire pipelines, integrating with arbitrary resources, or it can be used to execute one-off tasks, either locally or in another CI system. Concourse attempts to reduce the risk of adoption by encouraging practices that keep your project loosely coupled to the details of your continuous integration infrastructure.

Concourse optimizes around the following principles:

• Simplicity
• Usability
• Build Isolation
• Scalable, reproducible deployments
• Flexibility
• Local iteration

During this session we'll learn the simple key concepts from which Concourse pipelines are constructed. We'll understand how to deploy a local Concourse cluster using Vagrant as well as a scalable Concourse cluster to your cloud of choice using Cloud Foundry BOSH. Finally, we'll look at basic and advanced examples of pipelines for Java projects.

Much is said about the decentralized governance of and local autonomy given to “two pizza teams” build microservices. But how do you organize teams to effectively collaborate to build the eventual composite system?

In this presentation we’ll examine how to apply the Tracer Bullet Development methodology described in Ship It! to effectively construct distributed systems composed of microservices.

This is a revised and updated version of the previous talk, with current thinking from practice and the literature. The talk presents why conflicts with your manager are inevitable based on differences in priorities and perspectives, and how to plan for them. The goal is to show you how to build the loyalty relationship that allows you to get what you need when you need it.

Topics covered will include diagnosing communication styles, lessons from game theory, working within the organizational hierarchy, and lessons on how to build a relationship with your manager that still allows you the freedom to express yourself and what you really want.

JavaScript will celebrate it's 24th birthday in 2020. For a language that has been around for such a while it has seen very few, if any changes to the language itself. Well all that is about to change with ECMAScript.next (or ECMAScript 6). ECMAScript 6 modernizes JavaScript syntax, while bringing in features such as modules for better namespacing, class as a first class construct, and a variety of additional operators thus ensuring that JavaScript is ready for the next era of large scale modern web applications. ES 7, 8, 9 and now 10 all use the features introduced by ES6 to further the language.

In this session we will take a look at some of the features that ECMAScript 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 and 10 bring to the table. We will take an exploratory approach, and by the end of 3 hours, you will be well versed with ALL of the new features in JavaScript.

JavaScript will celebrate it's 24th birthday in 2020. For a language that has been around for such a while it has seen very few, if any changes to the language itself. Well all that is about to change with ECMAScript.next (or ECMAScript 6). ECMAScript 6 modernizes JavaScript syntax, while bringing in features such as modules for better namespacing, class as a first class construct, and a variety of additional operators thus ensuring that JavaScript is ready for the next era of large scale modern web applications. ES 7, 8, 9 and now 10 all use the features introduced by ES6 to further the language.

In this session we will take a look at some of the features that ECMAScript 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 and 10 bring to the table. We will take an exploratory approach, and by the end of 3 hours, you will be well versed with ALL of the new features in JavaScript.

In this session we will look at some JavaScript patterns, and how you can use them within your code.

No longer can you think of JavaScript as a kiddie-scripting language. JavaScript has now been promoted to a first-class citizen within your application - and with this, comes the need to think of better abstractions, code re-use - even thinking of establishing a common vocabulary to discuss approaches to writing better, cleaner and ultimately more maintainable JavaScript code.

Hypothesis and data driven development ties together current thinking about requirements, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, modern architecture, and engineering techniques to help rethink building software.

Agile development claims to abhor “Big Design Up Front”…yet what is that giant backlog building session but BDUF in other clothing? Back in the olden days of software development, we were forced to speculate on what users want, then build it. We were basically running a buffet. But what if we could switch to à la carte? With modern engineering practices like Continuous Delivery, we can shift our perspective and start building by hypothesis rather than speculation. This talk shows the full spectrum of software development, from ideation through execution and deployment, through the lens of modern software engineering practices. I discuss building a platform using feature toggles, canary releases, A/B testing, and other modern DevOps tools to allow you to run experiments to see what your users really want. By building a platform for experimentation, product development shifts from up-front guessing to market driven. This talk unifies the practices of modern architecture, DevOps, and Continuous Delivery to provide a new approach to feature development. This talk also demonstrates how to undertake major architectural restructuring with zero regression failures by relying on data and the scientific method.

Over the past year I’ve had the pleasure of wearing the hat of “product manager” for the Spring Cloud Services team at Pivotal, operating using a distributed variant of the Pivotal Labs process. Along the way I’ve learned many valuable lessons that I hope you’ll be able to apply to your product development efforts.

In this presentation we’ll examine the relationship of product management to engineering and to your customer, and how you can be an effective broker between the two groups.

Being a professional software engineer, it's easy to fall into the belief that one's role in a company is to write code.
Another perspective might be that one's role is to solve problems for the business and that writing code is merely one of several tools available to help solve those problems.

There are numerous problem-solving “anti-patterns” that are rampant in the industry today. “Forewarned is forearmed” as they say. In addition to highlighting these “anti-patterns” with real-life examples and the (sometimes) disastrous consequences, Michael asks some of the difficult questions about our true motivations for our decisions and how our decisions can either positively or negatively affect our team and our organization.

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.

We will focus on a variety of technologies and standards that help us make, identify, claim and verify identities.

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.

This talk will focus on the Valet Key problem and how to avoid it. We will visit various standards and technologies that help us strengthen our security profiles by reducing our dependence on open-ended and unfettered access to our systems and data.

Information conveys value as it travels around our systems, resting for a time in our data stores. The value we get out of it is sometimes matched by the value others would get from it as well. We need mechanisms to protect sensitive information from prying eyes and control with whom we share it.

Technologies don't magically become solutions. They are used within domain, design and deployment contexts. This talk will focus on the singular notion of Secrecy and how it cross-cuts the distributed systems we are building.

This talk will focus on strategies from the world of encryption to keep secrets secret as we produce, store and transfer information in distributed systems. A successful strategy for doing so will rely on notions of Identity and a strong Privilege model, but we will mostly focus on specific building blocks upon which we maintain Privacy and Confidentiality.

We will also address the forces that undermine our ability to trust encryption such as bugs, design flaws and those who wish to actively undermine our need to maintain Secrecy.

Learning to Trust in a distributed system is a complex and harrowing process. By combining the notions of Identity and Secrecy we can build protocols that help us achieve it.

Technologies don't magically become solutions. They are used within domain, design and deployment contexts. This talk will focus on the singular notion of Trust and how it cross-cuts the distributed systems we are building.

This talk will focus on a variety of standards and technologies that help us connect the worlds of Identity, Secrecy and Integration. We will look at technologies that benefit from open standards to allow us to make and verify claims that strengthen our ability to Trust. This will also include a look at the Distributed Trust models such as Blockchain-based transactions and platforms that build upon them.

Technology changes, it's a fact of life. And while many developers are attracted to the challenge of change, many organizations do a particularly poor job of adapting. We've all worked on projects with, ahem, less than new technologies even though newer approaches would better serve the business. But how do we convince those holding the purse strings to pony up the cash when things are “working” today? At a personal, how do we keep up with the change in our industry?

This talk will explore ways to stay sharp as a software professional. We'll talk about how a technology radar can help you stay marketable (and enjoying your career) and how we can use the same technique to help our companies keep abreast of important changes in the technology landscape. Of course it isn't enough to just be aware, we have to drive change - but how? This talk will consider ways we can influence others and lead change in our organizations.

Almost every example of an agile project involves a single team and while many successful projects are delivered that way, most enterprise software requires the interaction of several teams. But how do we scale agile beyond a single team? What practices translate and which ones don't? In this talk we'll discuss some of the issues you'll encounter as you move agile beyond a single group and how you can keep multiple stakeholders happy. While it isn't as simple as having a “scrum of scrums” it isn't as hard as replacing every line of COBOL.

Almost every example of an agile project involves a single team and while many successful projects are delivered that way, most enterprise software requires the interaction of several teams. But how do we scale agile beyond a single team? What practices translate and which ones don't? In this talk we'll discuss some of the issues you'll encounter as you move agile beyond a single group and how you can keep multiple stakeholders happy. While it isn't as simple as having a “scrum of scrums” it isn't as hard as replacing every line of COBOL.

Whether your goals are higher concurrency, lower latency or high availability; there are proven techniques and strategies you can implement. Each requires careful consideration and comes with it's own challenges.

In this session we'll examine several architectures for running MySQL at scale and will be building each of the architectures live and hands-on.

Unlock your latent photographic memory. In this session you'll learn failsafe techniques and systems that allow you to never forget names, appointments, or numbers. In the process you'll be more effective and imaginative at work; improve reading speed and comprehension, and shorten study times.

An improved memory will change your life, literally. In the session we will describe in detail several memory techniques that, with a little practice, will have you remembering virtually anything you want.

Visibility is one of the primary characteristics of applications that aren’t just coded well, but run well in production. We need visibility to understand:

• how our system performs
• how our system misbehaves
• how our system fails
• how our users interact with our system
• what’s providing value to users and what’s not
• and more!

In this talk we’ll look at the three disciplines of monitoring, metrics, and logging, and see how properly used, they can dramatically increase our system’s inherent visibility.

Topics will include:

• what metrics should we collect?
• how should we expose those metrics?
• can frameworks help?
• what should we monitor?
• monitoring components vs. systems
• building dashboards
• the art of logging
• log aggregation and analysis
• tools, tools, tools, tools!

If you have ever studied a martial art, chances are you are familiar with katas: the practice of individual training exercises. Repeatedly. It may seem pointless to practice the same move again and again, the only way to improve is repetition. We can apply the same concept to learning programming languages.

Working individually or in small groups, attendees will work through a set of problems using JavaScript to solve them. Whether you are new to JavaScript or an old hand, this session will give you an opportunity to hone your craft! Bring a laptop or be prepared to make a friend.

Back in the day, web developers had to rely on their wits and a plethora of alert statements - to say our toolkit was spartan would be an understatement. But with the increased importance of web front ends and the rise of JavaScript MVC frameworks, a modern web developer toolkit is finally emerging.

We've evolved from text editors to full fledged IDE's with code completion and refactoring tools but our toolchain doesn't end there. With multiple testing libraries, mocking frameworks, test drivers and even code coverage tools, today's web developer gets to walk downhill on a sunny day.

Take a look at your codebase. Go ahead, this abstract will wait. Notice anything? Perhaps a few more lines of JavaScript than years past? JavaScript is no longer an outlier, a language for the interns, something we can just mash together. Today, JavaScript is a first class citizen. As such, we need to treat it will all the care and feeding we extend our server side languages. This talk will introduce you to a set of tools that will help you write bulletproof JavaScript.

Step one, make sure we aren't making any basic mistakes like using == when we really mean ===. To remedy these types of bugs, we'll leverage JSHint to statically analyze our code. In addition to walking through the setup, we'll discuss how to ratchet up the rules as you improve your codebase. Just like Java or C#, we also need to test our JavaScript code. We'll introduce Jasmine, a BDD style testing tool as well as other tools that make help in the testing process. Last but not least, we'll take a tour of Plato, a JavaScript source code visualizer. Taken together, these tools can go a long way to improve your JavaScript code.

Groovy is unusual among programming languages in that it doesn't seek to replace its predecessor. You can freely mix Groovy with Java on a class-by-class, or even line-by-line, basis. If you are working with Java, there's no reason not to make your life easier by adding Groovy where it helps the most.

Groovy helps Java in many ways, especially when processing XML or JSON data, replacing anonymous inner classes, adding tons of library methods that Java has needed all along, vastly simplified file and database manipulation, and much more. This talk will demonstrate how you can add Groovy to Java applications and simplify your development job immediately.

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.

We will look at how the REST Architectural style leads us to integration-friendly standards such as RDF, Linked Data, SPARQL and JSON-LD. These technologies are useful both within our firewalls and with third party partners.

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.

We will focus on strategies from the Web standards space to define information systems that embrace change and handle it with relative ease.

This will include strategies for dealing with changing technologies, changing schemas and more.

Part 1 of this workshop focuses on the many elements required to make the journey from developer to architect, covering process topics like the impact of Continuous Delivery on architecture, technical subjects like application, integration, and enterprise architecture, and soft skills. While we can't make you an architect overnight, we can start you on the journey with a map and a good compass.

The job Software Architect places in the top ten of most annual surveys of best jobs, yet no clear path exists from Developer to Architect. Why aren't there more books and training materials to fill this demand? First, software architecture is a massive multidisciplinary subject, covering many roles and responsibilities, making it difficult to teach because so much context is required for the interesting subjects. Second, it's a fast moving discipline, where entire suites of best practices become obsolete overnight.

Part 1 of this workshop focuses on the many elements required to make the journey from developer to architect, covering process topics like the impact of Continuous Delivery on architecture, technical subjects like application, integration, and enterprise architecture, and soft skills. While we can't make you an architect overnight, we can start you on the journey with a map and a good compass.

• Soft skills
• Continuous Delivery
• Understanding large codebases
• Architecture patterns
• Architecture anti-patterns
• Tooling & documentation
• Integration architecture
• Integration styles
• Introduction to enterprise architecture

To fully leverage knowledge, you need application. Part three of this workshop uses the public domain Architectureal Katas exercise to apply learnings from the first two parts.

To fully leverage knowledge, you need application. Part three of this workshop uses the public domain Architectureal Katas exercise to apply learnings from the first two parts.

From the Architectal Katas website:

Architectural Katas are intended as a small-group (3-5 people) exercise, usually as part of a larger group (4-10 groups are ideal), each of whom is doing a different kata. A Moderator keeps track of time, assigns Katas (or allows this website to choose one randomly), and acts as the facilitator for the exercise.

Each group is given a project (in many ways, an RFP–Request For Proposal) that needs development. The project team meets for a while, discovers requirements that aren’t in the orignal proposal by asking questions of the “customer” (the Moderator), discusses technology options that could work, and sketches out a rough vision of what the solution could look like. Then, after they’ve discussed for a while, the project team must present their solution to the other project teams in the room, and answer challenges (in the form of hard-but-fair questions) from the other project teams. Once that challenge phase is done, the room votes on their results, and the next project team takes the floor.

Part 3, Architectal Katas, is an instructor-led hands-on Katas exercise.

The technology space is a lot like the ocean - miss one wave and another will come along shortly; most shiny new things begin with a sizable amount of hype as everyone rushes to play with the new toy. This cycle is often met with a level of disappointment as we quickly discover our new bauble isn't all that and a bag of chips so we rush off to the next best thing ever.

A few short years ago, HTML5 was the new hotness but at the time browser support was spotty at best. Despite the spotlight moving on to something else, browser support has improved markedly and we even have new toys to play with! In this talk, I will walk you through what is possible in today's browser as well as what other new features you might not be aware of. HTML5 may no longer qualify as bleeding edge, but it is still deserving of our attention.

React is a popular UI framework born from Facebook and while it is used in a variety of web projects, it can be leveraged to build native iOS applications. React Native brings the ubiquity of JavaScript to native application development allowing us to “learn once, write anywhere.”

In this talk, I will help you get started with popular library.

Part two of this workshop takes a deeper dive in application, integration, and enterprise architecture topics, including evaluating architectures via Agile ATAM, the impacts of continuous delivery on architecture, comparing architectures, SOA, SOAP, and REST, integration hubs, and enterprise architecture approaches and strategies.

The job Software Architect places in the top ten of most annual surveys of best jobs, yet no clear path exists from Developer to Architect. Why aren't there more books and training materials to fill this demand? First, software architecture is a massive multidisciplinary subject, covering many roles and responsibilities, making it difficult to teach because so much context is required for the interesting subjects. Second, it's a fast moving discipline, where entire suites of best practices become obsolete overnight.

Part two of this workshop takes a deeper dive in application, integration, and enterprise architecture topics, including evaluating architectures via Agile ATAM, the impacts of continuous delivery on architecture, comparing architectures, SOA, SOAP, and REST, integration hubs, and enterprise architecture approaches and strategies.

Agile ATAM
Continuous Delivery for architects
Applying abstraction
Comparing architectures
SOAP vs REST/ WS vs Messaging
SOA deep dive
Integration hubs
Enterprise architecture approaches
Enterprise architecture strategies

You've heard the old adage “It's not what you know it's who you know.” The focus of this session is divided between ways to better connect with everyone you meet as well as ways to grow your network, help and influence people and ultimately build long-term relationships and build your reputation.

Networking isn't about selling nor it isn't about “taking.” Done properly it benefits everyone. Among the benefits are strengthening relationships; getting new perspectives and ideas; building a reputation of being knowledgable, reliable and supportive; having access to opportunities and more!

Slides available online: https://prezi.com/ck1fdbhgqwiq/?token=8f8240f753ad9ae2c50ce696657020f40a877a40fa224790652eb412ac5eb8d3

In this session we will look to see how we can refactor our learning - what tools, and methodologies can we use to help us learn quicker and better - how we can create a store that gives us quick access to information when we really need it.

We all work in an industry in which not only do the tools that we use change ever few years, but one in which we have to shift the very paradigms these tools are built on! Even the most trivial of projects entails tens of different toolkits, frameworks, and languages coming together, and somehow we need to know how to leverage each one. How does one keep up? Despite all our years in schools, and our in-born nature to learn, we often are never taught how to learn. How can we learn faster, and retain even more?

In this session we will take a look at various tools and techniques available to us and see how we can make our learning effective.

Find yourself overwhelmed with hundreds of to-dos? Is your hard-drive littered with dozens of killer ideas that you started with enthusiasm and then just fizzled away? Do you feel like you are moving as fast as can but only getting to the wrong place quicker? Well perhaps this session will help.

There are various techniques and strategies available to us today that aim to help with exactly this conundrum - from Getting Things Done ™ to Personal Kanban. Unfortunately it is often easy to be extremely productive using these systems, but not very effective. After all, it's not about getting things done, but getting the RIGHT things done. In this talk we will discuss not only how to get things done, but also attempt to figure out what it is you actually need to be doing.

In this session, I will attempt to show you how you can leverage various strategies to be more effective, knock to-dos out and have fun while doing it. If time permits we will close with an overview of the tools that are available to you, and how you can use these to become a to-do list ninja :)

Are you getting optimal performance from your database? Do you secretly wonder if your my.cnf is even close to tuned for your hardware and workload?
In part 1 we embark on a deep dive into DB Design, Indexes, query tuning and configuration.

Learn the tools and techniques to make good design decisions to maximize performance. How to interpret query plans and benchmark and tune your queries. Leave with a deeper understanding of all the various configuration options available and how each affects performance.

We all have an innate sense of what's possible. Not only is this how magicians fool you, but it might also be what's holding you back.

In this session Michael Carducci shares how he applied lessons learned in his career as a professional magician to his “day-job” as a software engineer.

Magicians have a simple process for creating new material; think of the most impossible thing you can imagine, the engineer a way to make it possible. Michael has been engineering solutions to “impossible” problems for nearly 20 years and this has given him a unique perspective on dealing with challenges in all aspects of his life.

This talk combines illusion, anecdotes and real-world examples to help identify and overcome your mental obstacles.

Apache Cassandra is one of the best solutions for storing and retrieving data.
Kafka is a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system that is designed to be fast, scalable, and durable.
We will explore data analytics cluster computing framework with real-world examples. It is 100x faster than Hadoop!

Big Data applications nowadays require a more rapid speed of data processing and analysis. We will explore topology with examples for building Spark applications.

Apache Cassandra is one of the best solutions for storing and retrieving data.
Kafka is a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system that is designed to be fast, scalable, and durable.
We will explore data analytics cluster computing framework with real-world examples. It is 100x faster than Hadoop!

Big Data applications nowadays require a more rapid speed of data processing and analysis. We will explore topology with examples for building Spark applications.

Ever wonder when Java will be out of class path hell? Java 9 is for application developers, library developers by enablement of a scalable platform, greater platform integrity, and improved performance. In this talk, we will explore Project Jigsaw, HTTP 2.0, Lightweight JSON API and many other features.

Ever wonder when Java will be out of class path hell? Java 9 is for application developers, library developers by enablement of a scalable platform, greater platform integrity, and improved performance. In this talk, we will explore Project Jigsaw, HTTP 2.0, Lightweight JSON API and many other features.

Inspired by success stories from companies such as Amazon and Netflix, many organizations are moving towards microservice architectures at a brisk pace. This session provides a thorough overview of the pros and cons for microservice architectures, when it is applicable, and some nascent best practices.

Microservice architecture is important because it’s the first architecture to fully embrace the Continuous Delivery and DevOps revolutions. In this session, I cover the motivations for building a microservice architecture (including making the distinction between “regular SOA” and microservices), some considerations you must make before starting (such as transactions versus eventual consistency), how to determine service partition boundaries, and ten tips to dowse you towards success. I also discuss the role of polyglot development, enterprise governance, how data and databases fit into this new world, and tooling to help ensure consistency between core services like logging and monitoring. This session provides a thorough overview of the pros and cons for microservice architectures, when it is applicable, and some nascent best practices.

An evolutionary architecture supports incremental, guided change along multiple dimensions.

For many years, software architecture was described as the “parts that are hard to change later”. But then microservices showed that if architects build evolvability into the architecture, change becomes easier. This talk, based on my upcoming book, investigates the family of software architectures that support evolutionary change, along with how to build evolvable systems. Understanding how to evolve architecture requires understanding how architectural dimensions interact; I describe how to achieve appropriate coupling between components and services. Incremental change is critical for the mechanics of evolution; I cover how to build engineering and DevOps practices to support continuous change. Uncontrolled evolution leads to undesirable side effects; I cover how fitness functions build protective, testable scaffolding around critical parts to guide the architecture as it evolves.

The software development ecosystem exists in a state of dynamic equilibrium, where any new tool, framework, or technique leads to disruption and the establishment of a new equilibrium. Predictability is impossible when the foundation architects plan against changes constantly in unexpected ways. Instead, prefer evolvability over predictability. This keynote illustrates how to achieve evolutionary architectures and how to retrofit existing systems to support better evolution.

Using the Microservices Architectural Style to incrementally adopt an Event-driven Architecture (EDA) lowers up-front costs while decreasing time-to-market. EDA extracts value from existing occurrences, limiting invasive refactoring or disrupting existing application development efforts. Implementing Event-driven Microservices yields intelligence, scalable, extensible, reactive endpoints.

This session will cover the fundamentals, patterns, techniques and pitfalls of Event-driven Microservices with several demos leveraging Spring-Boot, Camel, ActiveMQ and Docker.

No matter the techniques used to make enterprise solutions Highly Available (HA), failure is inevitable at some point. Resiliency refers to how quickly a system reacts to and recovers from such failures. This presentation discusses various architectural resiliency techniques and patterns that help increase Mean Time to Failure (MTTF), also known as Fault Tolerance, and decrease Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR).

Failure of Highly Available (HA) enterprise solutions is inevitable. However, in today's highly interconnected global economy, uptime is crucial. The impact of downtime is amplified when considering Service Level Agreement (SLA) penalties and lost revenue. Even more damaging is the harm to an organization's reputation as frustrated customers express their grievances on social media. Resiliency, often overlooked in favor of availability, is essential. Prezi Presentation

In this session you will learn to strategically introduce technology innovations by applying specific change patterns to groups of individuals. Using these patterns and related techniques will not only benefit your organization but will ultimately benefit your career as a technologist by making you a better influencer, writer, and speaker.

The rapid pace of technological innovation has enabled many organizations to dramatically increase productivity while at the same time decrease their overall headcount. However, the vacillating global economy combined with “change fatigue” within organizations has resulted in a risk averse culture. In such an environment how can one possibly introduce and inculcate the latest technology or process within an organization? The answer is to have a solid understanding of Diffusion Theory and to leverage Patterns of Change.

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This session compares Service-oriented, Service-based, and Micro-service architectures, describing the problem each is designed to solve, differences and similarities, variants and hybrids, and engineering practices.

Microservice architectures are quite popular, described as “SOA done correctly”. But what are the real differences between SOA, Microservice, and service-based architectures? What about middle ground between the shared everything of SOA versus shared nothing of microservices? This talk explores the similarities and differences between various service-oriented architectural styles. I describe the characteristics of SOA, microservices, and hybrid service-based architectures, along with the considerations and constraints for each. I also discuss specific engineering practices, orchestration styles, reuse strategies, and migrating from monolithic applications to service-based or microservice architectures. No one architecture can solve every problem, and many projects take on more complexity than necessary by choosing the wrong paradigm.

Reactive is a the latest buzzword to consume our industry. This presentation distills and defines reactive systems, describe the difference between reactive architecture vs. reactive programming, describe common patterns, and demos the popular reactive JVM technologies like RXJava, and Akka.

Introduction to reactive gets in deep on a discussion of patterns: Source, Sink, Back Pressure, Reactive Pull/Push including a Light introduction to actors using Akka, ReactiveX using RXJava and Reactive Streams in RXJava and Akka. We also will showcase the differences between ReactiveX and Akka.

Starting with JDK 5, we have had Futures, and they mostly went ignored. Now with concurrency and reactive technology in demand, it is essential that we understand what futures are, and how to handle them and make use of their power in asynchronous systems.

This presentation is a basic ground up introduction to Futures. We start with Futures and how they came packaged with JDK 5. We take a look at Executors, how to create a thread pool, which pool you should choose. How to model Futures in the JDK and show the difference for awaiting the answer and taking on the answer asynchronously. We also take a look at what a Promise is and when to use one. We then invest time taking a look at Guava's callback solution. Then we finally look at the handling of futures in both Scala and Clojure.

This talk is designed to catapult your productivity, enhance your emotional intelligence, and refine your problem-solving skills. This talk is not just a series of presentations; it's a transformative experience tailored for the ambitious software developer and architect seeking to leave a mark in the fast-paced world of technology.

Dive into the essence of developer and architect productivity, where we unravel the secrets to optimizing your workflow and leveraging your skills for maximum impact. Discover the “24 Hours Instant Happiness” principle, a proven strategy to inject a dose of joy into your daily routine, fostering a positive work environment and personal life.

“Maximizing Your Impact” takes you deeper into the realm of influence, equipping you with the tools to excel in your projects and inspire those around you. Through “Effective Communication” and the intriguing “Mirror Technique,” learn how to build rapport, foster collaboration, and lead with empathy, amplifying your charisma in all professional interactions.

As we delve into the core of success, “Emotional Intelligence is 85% of Success” highlights the paramount importance of self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills in achieving your goals. The “6 Phase Meditation Approach” and “Day Launcher” sessions are designed to refine your focus, creativity, and emotional stability, setting a solid foundation for a productive day ahead.

The inclusion of “Empathy Maps” and “IDEO Case Studies” offers a practical lens through which to view user-centric design and innovation. At the same time, the “SCAMPER Technique” provides a creative framework for problem-solving, ensuring you're equipped to tackle challenges with agility and inventiveness.

Elevate your productivity to new heights with “5 Choices for Super Productivity,” a comprehensive guide to prioritizing effectively, embracing extraordinary outcomes, and mastering your technology. Learn the art of “Managing Energy, Not Time,” a paradigm shift that promises to enhance your efficiency and job satisfaction.

As the talk culminates, “The Paradox of Choice” and the latest “Technology Trends to Focus On” prepare you to navigate the complexities of the modern tech landscape with confidence and curiosity.

This masterclass is more than just a talk; it's an invitation to transform how you work, lead, and innovate. Join us to unlock your full potential and reshape your future in software development and architecture. Whether you're looking to boost your productivity, enhance your emotional intelligence, or simply find more joy in your work, this talk is your gateway to a more fulfilling career and life.

Developers and Architects are designers, problem solvers, and innovative, creative artists. Software design is an art that requires both left and right brains to be active so you can understand what customers need. Next, we will explore habits and tools to plan, learn, research, organize, teach, develop, mentor, and architect.

Agenda
Enhancing Productivity and Personal Growth
– Developer and Architect Productivity
Strategies for improving daily workflow and efficiency in software development and architecture.

– 24 Hours Instant Happiness
Quick wins for boosting morale and happiness within the team and personal life.

– Maximizing Your Impact
Techniques to increase your influence and contributions in projects and teams.

– Effective Communication
Importance of clear communication and the Mirror Technique to improve understanding and rapport.

– Increasing Charisma
Tips for becoming more charismatic and influential in professional settings.
Building Emotional Intelligence and Mindfulness

– Emotional Intelligence is 85% of Success
Discussing the critical role of emotional intelligence in achieving professional success.

– 6-Phase Meditation Approach
Introducing a meditation technique to enhance focus, creativity, and emotional stability.

– Day Launcher
A strategy to start your day with intention and focus, setting the tone for productivity and success.

– Empathy Map
Utilizing empathy maps to better understand user needs and enhance team collaboration.

– IDEO Case Studies
Examining case studies from IDEO to illustrate successful applications of empathy in design.

– Understanding a Problem with SCAMPER Technique
Exploring the SCAMPER technique to creatively solve problems and innovate solutions.
Strategies for Super Productivity

– 5 Choices for Super Productivity
Detailed strategies for enhancing productivity by prioritizing important tasks, aiming for extraordinary outcomes, scheduling priorities (“big rocks”), mastering technology use, and maintaining energy levels.

– Managing Energy, Not Time
Shifting focus from time management to energy management to maximize productivity and well-being.

– Increasing Frequency to Do What You Want
Techniques to align daily actions with personal and professional goals more effectively.

– The Paradox of Choice
Understanding how reducing options can lead to increased satisfaction and productivity.

– Technology Trends to Focus On
Highlighting current technology trends that developers and architects should be aware of to stay ahead in their field.

Didn't you hear the news? TDD is dead. Yet many developers rely on it for quality code. Come join the zombie apocalypse and learn and understand TDD, what sets it apart from unit testing after the fact, what to do when you need to update code, effective mocking, automatically generating test data and lots of it, leaving code alone and respecting your work, and more

This presentation will cover:

• What is TDD?
• Benefits of TDD
• How to TDD
• Mocking
• The Great TDD Debate
• Opinions of TDD from Industry Leaders
• JVM Testing Tools
• JVM Testing Languages
• Testing Static Calls
• Updating Code

Data integrity, security, recovery, privacy and regulatory compliance are essential attributes for enterprise implementation. Enterprise customers ask for transparency in how the vendors will provide security programs. Many questions need to be asked for any cloud implementation to policy makers, architects, coders, and testers.
In this presentation, we will explore data security and storage, privacy, and data compliance issues. We will explore the security management in the cloud. The presentation is useful for anyone starting from Executives to developers who are going to implement the Enterprise Applications in both private and public cloud.

Data integrity, security, recovery, privacy and regulatory compliance are essential attributes for enterprise implementation. Enterprise customers ask for transparency in how the vendors will provide security programs. Many questions need to be asked for any cloud implementation to policy makers, architects, coders, and testers.
In this presentation, we will explore data security and storage, privacy, and data compliance issues. We will explore the security management in the cloud. The presentation is useful for anyone starting from Executives to developers who are going to implement the Enterprise Applications in both private and public cloud.

In this talk, we will explore different cloud computing architecture design patterns blueprints and how you can take advantage of them. We will study cloud patterns for Private and Hybrid cloud deployments, Cloud Services, Common cloud management platforms, Security, Cloud governance, resiliency, Performance, and consumability.

In this talk, we will explore different cloud computing architecture design patterns blueprints and how you can take advantage of them. We will explore cloud patterns for Private and Hybrid cloud deployments, Cloud Services, Common cloud management platforms, Security, Cloud governance, resiliency, Performance, and consumability.
Few patterns we will explore are as follows:
Sharing, Scaling and Elasticity Patterns
Reliability, Resiliency and Recovery Patterns
Data Management and Storage Device Patterns
Cloud Service and Storage Security Patterns
Network Security, Identity & Access Management and Trust Assurance Patterns

What is fragile? Fragile things are easily broken, damaged, or destroyed. When faced with stressors, they crumble. Then what is the opposite of that? Many of us would answer something like “robust” or “resilient.” Things that maintain their integrity when faced with stressors. But it’s possible that we’re wrong.

In his book Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb challenges this idea by inventing the word that forms the book’s title. Antifragile is the true opposite of fragile. Whereas fragile things are easily broken, damaged, or destroyed when faced with stressors, antifragile things improve, become stronger, or become more powerful when faced with stressors.

Can we build software systems like this? Dick Gabriel explores the idea of ultra-large scale systems that self-regulate (and in fact thrive) in the face of unexpected changes and stressors in his essay “Design Beyond Human Abilities,” and Russ Miles explicitly calls out the idea of Antifragile Software in his book by the same name. During this session we’ll explore these ideas and what they mean to us as developers and architects.

Gradle has fast become one of the de-facto build tool in the Java ecosystem. Gradle offers a powerful DSL to configure your builds. Whether you have a simple build, or a complex build with many moving parts, Gradle's DSL and extensible API can help you make your builds easier, and possible.

In this sessio we will start from the ground up. We will write our first Gradle script and examine Gradle's configuration vs. execution phases. We will see how Gradle uses plugins to add on functionality for free to your build and end with a look at the Gradle Plugin API to see how easy it is to write your own plugins for better reuse.

Didn't you hear the news? TDD is dead. Yet many developers rely on it for quality code. Come join the zombie apocalypse and learn and understand TDD, what sets it apart from unit testing after the fact, what to do when you need to update code, effective mocking, automatically generating test data and lots of it, leaving code alone and respecting your work, and more

This presentation will cover:

• What is TDD?
• Benefits of TDD
• How to TDD
• Mocking
• The Great TDD Debate
• Opinions of TDD from Industry Leaders
• JVM Testing Tools
• JVM Testing Languages
• Testing Static Calls
• Updating Code

ReactiveX is a set of Reactive Extensions developed by Netflix, and is developed for various programming languages, like Java, Scala, and Clojure. ReactiveX overhauls the observable design pattern to achieve reactive goals. This presentation will solely focus on the Java version of ReactiveX, RXJava.

RXJava is combining the Observer Pattern with Functional Programming to compose complex asynchronous reactive systems. This presentation will also give an overview on RXJava concepts like Source, Sink, BackPressure and Reactive Pull and Push.