Technology is evolving faster than ever - and it is time to re-evaluate the trends we may have previously taken for granted. Architects are now assessing whether to go back to monoliths, on-premise, multi-cloud, or go all in on an event driven serverless architecture. This track highlights key trends, including those where the pendulum may be swinging in the other direction. You will hear from practitioners about criteria they used to land where they did, as well as real world lessons from running these novel architectures at scale. You will walk away with some inspiration on what to try and how to assess the trends for your specific scenarios.
From this track
Thinking Like an Architect
Wednesday Nov 20 / 10:35AM PST
Are architects supposed to be the smartest people on the team, making all the important decisions for developers to fill in the blanks? Certainly not. Rather, architects make everyone else smarter, for example by sharing decision models or revealing blind spots.
Gregor Hohpe
Author of "Enterprise Integration Patterns" and "The Software Architect Elevator", Cloud Architect, Member of IEEE Software Advisory Board, Previously @AWS, @Google, and @Allianz
One Network: Cloud-Agnostic Service and Policy-Oriented Network Architecture
Wednesday Nov 20 / 11:45AM PST
In this age of an interconnected world, One Network helps customers to simplify deployment of their products and services by providing a unified service and policy oriented network architecture that breaks down the boundaries of public and private clouds, different runtimes and tr
Anna Berenberg
Engineering Fellow, Foundation Services, Service Networking, @Google Cloud, Co-Author of "Deployment Archetypes for Cloud Applications"
Renovate to Innovate: Fundamentals of Transforming Legacy Architecture
Wednesday Nov 20 / 01:35PM PST
Renovating old buildings and homes is commonplace, but why is technological renovation often overlooked? Just like a big home renovation adds to the quality of life, a successful architectural renovation has an outsized impact on the pace of innovation.
Rashmi Venugopal
Product Engineering @Netflix, Speaker, Previously Product Engineer @Uber & @Microsoft, Building and Operating Reliable Distributed Systems at Scale
Slack's Migration to a Cellular Architecture
Wednesday Nov 20 / 02:45PM PST
Cellular service architectures are a conceptually simple way for highly available online services to limit the impact of cascading failures and improve scale-out. So why aren't we all using them? And how do they even work in practice?
Cooper Bethea
Formerly Senior Staff Engineer and Technical Lead @Slack, Previously SRE Lead and SRE Workbook Author @Google
Building Tomorrow’s Legacy Code, Today
Wednesday Nov 20 / 03:55PM PST
Confronting legacy code and managing technical debt are inevitable aspects of building sustainable systems. Often, when we’re building new code, we don’t keep that inevitable future in mind–that the code we’re building today is the legacy code of tomorrow.
Shawna Martell
Senior Staff Engineer @Carta
