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Micro-Service Fundamentals

As you look towards micro-service based solutions, or maturing your existing, there are a number of factors that are fundamental worth being aware of.
This sessions covers the gambit of architectural topics you need to understand to be successful.

This session will touch on the topics of:

  • 12-factor application development
  • Cloud / datacenter Infrastructure
  • Application Categorizations
    • Guaranteed vs Best of Service
    • Core business vs supportive services
    • SLA
      • Response time require
      • Availability require
      • Fastlane / slowlane
      • App affinity / anti-affinity
  • Service Discovery and Service Elasticity
  • Fault domain
  • Multi-tenant
  • Metrics
  • Tracing
  • Debugging
  • Capacity vs Scale

Real-world examples will provide working and non-working examples throughout. If you are looking to mature your applications into a set of micro-service this is the session for you.


About Ken Sipe

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.

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