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Hear how Microsoft embarked on their own DevOps journey reducing a three-year release cycle down to three weeks. This required changes to their people, process and products. Donovan Brown from the League of Extraordinary Cloud DevOps Advocates will share insights into the agile transformation of Microsoft's Developer Division and showcase newest additions to…

SDLC - How we can improve security in our development by making it an integrated part of the development process. Today we use a large variety of tools for improving our development experience and process. We have unit tests to make sure our code performs like we intend. Code reviews for sharing knowledge and catching bugs. We use automated deployment to ens…

"Agile software delivery teams have to apply other methods than only testing to ensure the fast and robust delivery of an overall high quality product. Additionally, these methods need to be applied in the (changing) context of our work. This includes understanding the business value as much as the system architecture of the product. Once the environment is …

Spring Framework 5 is here, along with Spring Security 5, Spring Data Kay and Spring Boot 2! One of the most exciting introductions in this generation of Spring is reactive programming, building on Project Reactor to support message-driven, elastic, resilient and responsive services. The new Spring WebFlux framework integrates an MVC-like component model for…

"“Serverless” and “Platform as a Service” (PaaS) are buzzwords being currently on everyone’s lips. But they also cause headache: How doing an internet without servers? Who is responsible for the IT infrastructure? Can we dare to go this way or are we at mercy of Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Co. with neck and crop? Rainer Stropek tries to give answers to the…

Overview of principles and load-shedding mechanisms in large-scale services and how they impact service management.

Serverless technologies bring you to adopt event-driven architectures. I created “Serverless by Design”, an open source tool that can help you to quickly think, build and iterate on a visual representation of your project. First, it can map event-driven architectures to a network model, easy to edit and visualize. Services and functions are nodes of the netw…

"I've seen projects with shiny, new code render into unmaintainable big balls of mud within 2-3 years. Multiple times. But regardless of whether it's the code base as a whole that's rotten, or whether it's just the UI and User Experience that needs a major overhaul: the question on rewrite vs refactoring will come up sooner or later. Based on years of experi…

How do 1,500+ OpenStack developers from 150+ companies contribute to the same code? And how is it consumed in a way that it becomes part of a business solution? During this talk we'll cover CI/CD at scale and how to leverage those same principles and tools for a distribution, partners and customers following an upstream first approach. Open source projects l…

Improving a product’s quality isn’t possible without the needed appreciation throughout every member of the team, but finding the right approach everybody is comfortable with isn’t easy. We learned, the right mindset is key for which we found a simple solution. For us adding Cucumber (BDD framework) to Nightwatch (Selenium) was the right step to create a tes…

This talk will tell the story of how our backend architecture evolved over the last 8 years. It will give insights into how we gradually moved from 2 monolithic services with lots of design flaws to a modern microservice architecture using several database technologies. Pitfalls, mission-critical situations, major challenges, as well as technology and topolo…

All successful products focus on the user. As a developer, you are your software's final UX guardian. It is in your power to make or break its user experience. Therefore, it is your responsibility to make sure things don't go sideways. Thankfully, every developer is an API designer, and every API designer is a UX expert. Here are the reasons why...