O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference 2019 - New York, New York
as the organisers put it
Microservices, Kubernetes, and more. Learn the skills and tools every software architect needs at the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference.
who it's for
software architects, engineering managers, platform engineers, backend developers, devops engineers, security engineers, frontend developers
topics
Kubernetes and Istio platforms; Knative for serverless functions; hybrid and multi-cloud deployments; container immutability and Docker image hygiene; cell-based microservice architecture; API-centric microservice design; real-time pubsub networks and edge functions; legacy modernization with JavaScript stacks; pair and mob programming practices; maintainability measurement and tooling; infrastructure as code for governance; authentication and authorization distinctions
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The Future of Cloud-Native Programming | Tamar Eilam | 06m |
Argues the next step is an evolving unified cloud platform built on Kubernetes, Istio, Knative that moves container lifecycle, orchestration, networking… | ||
| Career Advice for Architects | Trisha Gee | 03m |
Claims that a “10x developer” comes from teaching nine others and shows how to scale skills by pair programming across roles, not solo heroics. Describes daily… | ||
| From the Trenches: An Interview with Mark Richards | Neal Ford | 04m |
Recounts a Honeywell TBM conversion that converts Honeywell assembler to C, has no documentation so the team reverse-engineered business rules, finishes on… | ||
| Design and Architecture: Special Dumpster Fire Unit | Matt Stine | 05m |
A rewrite aimed to replace a system built for seven customers escalates into three successive versions that take 8 years instead of 3, add 18 planned customers… | ||
| Design after Agile: How to Succeed by Trying Less | Stuart Halloway | 02m |
Argues that Agile needs stronger design heuristics and shows a concrete technique: make looser, composite diagrams instead of narrow UML slices. Uses the… | ||
| Roaming Free: The Power of Reading Beyond Your Field | Glenn Vanderburg | 03m |
A claim that reading outside software changes practice: structured OOA/UML training gives way to agile methods after finding David Billington’s July 2000… | ||
| Transforming legacy systems with modern technology demands | Kurt Monnier | 07m |
Argues that modern UIs can be layered on top of old systems using a standard JavaScript stack and a backend platform called Cerberus to avoid rewrite. Shows a… | ||
| Building engaged experiences with real-time applications | Simon Jones | 10m |
PubNub provides APIs and SDKs that push messages into a global pubsub Data Stream Network with guaranteed delivery to anyone worldwide within a quarter of a… | ||
| Creating maintainable code | Luc Brandts | 08m |
Describes a measurable approach to maintainability that claims a Fast Five star system is ISO-certified and that a two-star codebase takes three times longer… | ||
| Immutable infrastructure from containers to serverless | James Bottomley | 12m |
Argues that containers do not guarantee immutable infrastructure and gives a measured claim that 60% of Docker Hub images violate immutability, tracing the gap… | ||
| How to be API-centric and microservice friendly | Asanka Abeysinghe | 06m |
A cell based reference architecture claims a cell is the atomic unit that contains multiple microservices and exposes functionality through a cell gateway so… | ||
| The intersection of InfoSec and DevOps | Rich Graham | 09m |
WhiteSource scans build artifacts and source to map open‑source components, links each vulnerable library to exact code paths, and claims 70% of… | ||
| The difference between authentication and authorization | Joël Franušić | 09m |
Clear distinction: authentication vs authorization means first determine who a user is, then separately decide what that identity can do. The transcript claims… | ||
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