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The build that cried broken: Building trust in your continuous integration tests

The build that cried broken: Building trust in your continuous integration tests

January 16, 2020

Angie Jones explains how to build stability and credibility into your continuous integration tests so that your team is able to receive the fast feedback it needs for Agile development.
Continuous data-centric architecture

Continuous data-centric architecture

January 13, 2020

In the last five years, data has again risen to prominence, with chief data officers, data science, and analytics on the business side and microservices and NoSQL databases on the technology side. But how should software architects approach data in this age of Agile, big data, and the cloud? Murat Erder looks into key trends and architectural considerations.
Great technical architects must be great organization architects

Great technical architects must be great organization architects

January 12, 2020

Aligning organizational and technical boundaries will be the most important responsibility of future architects. Nick Tune explains why we must learn to codesign and coevolve teams and technical architectures to take the next big step to reduce lead times and build learning organizations.
Iterative architecture: Your path to on-time delivery

Iterative architecture: Your path to on-time delivery

January 12, 2020

Think big, act small. Its easy to develop a vision, but there are often many architecture barriers along the path to achieving it. Asanka Abeysinghe explores iterative architectureintroducing iterative architectural changes to support business and technical requirementsand shares real-world examples.
Modern CI/CD with Containers

Modern CI/CD with Containers

January 12, 2020

Modern CI/CD with Containers- In this talk, Chloe Condon will talk about how to approach CI/CD in the new age of containers. New CI/CD requires us to be even more agile, and requires new capabilities …
The travel guide to a software system

The travel guide to a software system

January 9, 2020

Imagine that tomorrow you started work on a new software system. What would you need to know to be productive? What information would help you orient yourself, make better decisions, and know that you're heading in the right direction? Patrick Kua uses the analogy of the travel guide to help you decide what to document in your software systems.
You scream for microservices orchestration; I scream for batch; we all scream for jobs as code (sponsored by BMC Software)

You scream for microservices orchestration; I scream for batch; we all scream for jobs as code (sponsored by BMC Software)

January 6, 2020

Business transformation has led us to adopt new technologies and process and cultural changes. How batch application automation is built, tested, and run must evolve to keep pace. Joe Goldberg explores jobs as code, which looks at batch application automation from an SDLC perspectivean approach that embeds expectations within a modern automation platform.
Automating cloud cluster deployment: Beyond the book

Automating cloud cluster deployment: Beyond the book

January 5, 2020

Speed and reliability in deploying big data clusters is key for effectiveness in the cloud. Drawing on ideas from his book Moving Hadoop to the Cloud, which covers essential practices like baking images and automating cluster configuration, Bill Havanki explains how you can automate the creation of new clusters from scratch and use metrics gathered using the cloud provider to scale up.
Bringing Multi-Container to Constrained Devices: The Case of the IoT Gateway

Bringing Multi-Container to Constrained Devices: The Case of the IoT Gateway

December 18, 2019

Containerization has been driving the scene in cloud technology, but it stretches far beyond the cloud domain. In fact, the AGILE project develops a container based open software framework for IoT gat …
Canary in a coal mine: Building infrastructure resiliency with canary data reloads

Canary in a coal mine: Building infrastructure resiliency with canary data reloads

December 16, 2019

Remember the old practice of the canary in the coal mine, where miners used fragile feathered friends as a failure detector for toxic gasses? In software, a canary run is a trial executed on one machine before the rest of the cluster runs. Ann Kilzer explains how Indeed created a canary service leveraging Consuls key value store to improve the resilience of data reloads in any infrastructure.
Tutorial: Service Orchestration - Way Beyond SDNFV Orchestration - Presented by MEF

Tutorial: Service Orchestration - Way Beyond SDNFV Orchestration - Presented by MEF

December 16, 2019

While service providers are quickly ramping up their capabilities to orchestrate Virtualized Network Functions and SDN components, many are starting to realize that work gets them only part way to the …
Building the culture and collaboration layer for DevOps (sponsored by Atlassian)

Building the culture and collaboration layer for DevOps (sponsored by Atlassian)

December 10, 2019

While most conversations around DevOps revolve around tool X or tool Y or the automation of X and Y, the reality is that DevOps requires high-performing people and teams. Sean Regan runs a brief DevOps Health Monitor live on stage and shares the other 26 team playbooks that emerged from Atlassian's Agile, DevOps, and microservices journey.
Hybrid-Cloud, HIPAA Compliant Enterprise with Kubernetes

Hybrid-Cloud, HIPAA Compliant Enterprise with Kubernetes

December 7, 2019

This talk will outline how UPMC Enterprises utilizes Kubernetes on-premises and in a public cloud (AWS). Well see how a large enterprise balances SaaS offerings vs Kubernetes hosted services. We will …
Data citizenship: The next stage of data governance

Data citizenship: The next stage of data governance

December 4, 2019

Successful organizations are becoming increasingly Agile, and the autonomy and empowerment that Agile brings create new, active modes of engagement. Data governance however is still very much a centralized task that only CDOs and data owners actively care about. Antonio Alvarez and Lidia Crespo outline a more engaging and active method of data governance: data citizenship.
From data dinosaurs to data stars in five weeks: Lessons from completing 80 data science projects

From data dinosaurs to data stars in five weeks: Lessons from completing 80 data science projects

December 3, 2019

More organizations are becoming aware of the value of data and want to get started and scaled up as quickly as possible. But how? Is it possible to get something useful done in five weeks? Kim Nilsson shares her experiences, both good and bad, delivering over 80 five-week data science projects to over 50 organizations, as well as some concrete tips on how to become a data star organization.
Growing a data-driven organization at easyJet

Growing a data-driven organization at easyJet

December 3, 2019

Many large organizations want to develop data science capabilities, but the traditional complexity and legacy of such companies dont allow a fast and agile evolution toward data-driven decision making. EasyJet is working toward becoming completely data driven. Alberto Rey shares real-world examples on how easyJet is tackling the challenges of scaling up its analytics capabilities.
Identifying and exploiting the keys to digital transformation

Identifying and exploiting the keys to digital transformation

December 2, 2019

Leading companies are integrating operations and analytics to make real-time adjustments to improve revenues, reduce costs, and mitigate risks. There are many aspects to digital transformation, but the timely delivery of actionable data is both a key enabler and an obstacle. Jack Norris explores how companies from Altitude Digital to Uber are transforming their businesses.
Keynote: Your Philips Hue Light Bulbs Are Turned On By Kubernetes

Keynote: Your Philips Hue Light Bulbs Are Turned On By Kubernetes

November 25, 2019

Philips Hue is one of the leading global Internet of Things platforms and has integrations with Amazon Echo, Google Home, IFTTT & Nest to make your lights work for you. The platform has grown consider …
How to motivate technical employees

How to motivate technical employees

November 23, 2019

Whether you are a CIO, IT director, or manager, as a leader of a highly talented technical team, you must motivate members of the team and the team as a whole. But how? Sam Erskine and Steve Buchanan share five key ways you can motivate technical employees, giving you a tool belt and an action plan that can be used in your organization right away.
10 lessons learned from building cloud-native middleware microservices

10 lessons learned from building cloud-native middleware microservices

November 18, 2019

Kai Whner shares 10 lessons learned from building cloud-native microservices in the middleware world, including the concepts behind cloud native, choosing the right cloud platform, and when not to build microservices at all, and shows how to apply these lessons to real-world projects by leveraging Docker, CloudFoundry, and Kubernetes to realize cloud-native middleware microservices.
Smoothing the continuous delivery path: A tale of two teams

Smoothing the continuous delivery path: A tale of two teams

November 15, 2019

Continuous delivery is gaining recognition as a best practice, yet adopting and iteratively improving it is challenging. Lyndsay Prewer shares various best practices for doing continuous delivery well, drawn from his experiences working with two very different organizationsone with a .Net monolith architecture, the other with a microservice architecture of over 300 Scala microservices.
Should designers. . .? New design skills from coding to Agile, process, and more

Should designers. . .? New design skills from coding to Agile, process, and more

November 11, 2019

It's no longer enough to be a Photoshop master. Designers need to grow their skills in order to stay relevant and effective. But which skills are worth focusing on? Drawing on his experience, Dan Mall shares stories and perspectives on whether designers should code, how designers can fit into Agile workflows, the role a designer has in creating, using, and maintaining design systems, and more.
The secret to strategic design: Mastering planning

The secret to strategic design: Mastering planning

November 11, 2019

In response to a managers question about how to plan products, Alan Kay famously remarked, The best way to predict the future is to invent it. His answer invokes a paradox at the heart of design: we cant know the future, yet its what we design for. Peter Morville argues that to practice strategic design amid disruptive innovation, we must get better at planning.
How Lufthansa German Airlines is using data analytics to create the next level of customer experience

How Lufthansa German Airlines is using data analytics to create the next level of customer experience

November 5, 2019

The aviation industry is facing a huge pressure in costs as well as a profound disruption in marketing and service. With ticket revenues dropping, increasing customer loyalty is key. Andreas Ribbrock explains how Lufthansa German Airlines uses data science and data-driven decision making to create the next level of digital customer experience along the full customer journey.
Seven steps to high-velocity data analytics with DataOps

Seven steps to high-velocity data analytics with DataOps

November 2, 2019

Data analysts, data scientists, and data engineers are already working on teams delivering insight and analysis, but how do you get the team to support experimentation and insight delivery without ending up in an IT versus data engineer versus data scientist war? Christopher Bergh and Gil Benghiat present the seven shocking steps to get these groups of people working together.
Shifting left for continuous quality in an Agile data world

Shifting left for continuous quality in an Agile data world

November 2, 2019

Data warehouses are critical in driving business decisionswith SQL dominantly used to build ETL pipelines. While the technology has shifted from using RDBMS-centric data warehouses to data pipelines based on Hadoop and MPP databases, engineering and quality processes have not kept pace. Avinash Padmanabhan highlights the changes that Intuit's team made to improve processes and data quality.