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Applying the principles of chaos to serverless

February 9, 2020

Chaos engineering is a discipline that focuses on improving system resilience through controlled experiments that expose the inherent chaos and failure modes in your system. While most of the publicized literature and tools focus on killing EC2 servers, Yan Cui explains how to apply the same principles of chaos to a serverless architecture built around AWS Lambda functions.

Are microservices a security threat?

February 9, 2020

Liz Rice explores the security implications of microservices, containers, and serverless and addresses the questions you need answers to: Will your deployments be less secure or more? How do DevOps processes like CI/CD and cluster orchestration affect your security profile? And what can we all do to minimize the risk of exploits?

The hidden cost of Kubernetes

February 9, 2020

Bridget Lane and Marcelo Mandolesi share the USA TODAY NETWORK's two-year journey learning, migrating to, and running Kubernetes, exploring the hidden costs, expectations broken, the company's process of evangelizing, and why they would do it all over again.

The Misinformation Age

February 9, 2020

Data scientist Jane Adams examines the ways in which these strategies actually fail to achieve the intended result, and more importantly how they perpetuate discriminatory hiring practices.

Understanding gossip protocols

February 9, 2020

Flix Lpez Luis offers an introduction to gossip protocols, using a simulator to demonstrate how they behave when there are challenges like network partitions and faulty nodes.

What changes when we go offline first?

February 9, 2020

We all know how to build web apps around a central server. Increasingly, we want to develop apps in which the user can still get work done while offline and that sync their data the next time an internet connection is available. Martin Kleppmann shares recent computer science research that is helping develop the abstractions and APIs for the next generation of applications.

Writing a Kubernetes operator to deploy a complex system

February 9, 2020

The Kubernetes API is extensible, allowing you to create your own resources that behave like native ones. Philippe Martin explores the tools, concepts, and a real example of a custom resource that simplifies the deployment of a complete content delivery network (CDN).

Beyond the technical: Succeed at leading a software architecture team

February 8, 2020

Software architects and enterprise architects work with a variety of roles, and often the deep technical work is performed by other application architects or solutions architects. Maggie Carroll shares useful skills and actionable techniques for creating a new architecture function and leading other architects in developing a system of systems.

Building a maintainable architecture for software landscapes

February 8, 2020

Dennis Bijlsma and Haiyun Xu explain how to measure the maintainability of software landscapes that consist of many systems communicating with each otherand what that means for the teams working on them. Along the way, they explore a number of trade-offs to consider when designing the landscape and share best practices for modern software landscape architectures.

Career advice for architects

February 8, 2020

Trisha Gee shares advice and lessons she learned the hard way while managing her career as a developer, lead, and technical advocate. She also gives you tools for working out what your next steps are along with plenty of examples of what not to do.

Continuous delivery in an ephemeral world

February 8, 2020

With systems like Travis CI, Circle CI, and CodeBuild, we're never more than a few lines of YAML away from a complete continuous delivery pipeline. However, ephemeral build systems constantly recreate the world from scratch, increasing build time and lengthening the CD feedback loop. John Chapin addresses those challenges and shares a reference pipeline using AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild.

Distributed systems are a UX problem.

February 8, 2020

Distributed systems are not strictly an engineering problem. Tyler Treat looks at distributed systems through the lens of user experience, observing how architecture, design patterns, and business problems all coalesce into UX. Tyler also shares system design anti-patterns and alternative patterns for building reliable and scalable systems with respect to business outcomes.

Documenting serverless architectures: Could we do it better?

February 8, 2020

We don't yet have an adequate language for describing serverless architectures. Today, we use informal diagrams in which no precise meaning can be attached to the diagram as a whole or to any particular element. Asher Sterkin explains why this is a problem and what we can do about it.

Embracing stateful client-server communication in the era of serverless functions

February 8, 2020

Wenbo Zhu illustrates the key architectural properties and underlying technologies to create and deploy a real-time, stateful application on top of the completely stateless serverless architecture.

Enclave-based architecture: A blueprint for cloud-native financial institutions

February 7, 2020

Danske Bank is implementing ideas and practices such as CI/CD, microservices, and DevOps within the extreme conditions of a financial enterprise. Angelo Agatino Nicolosi explains how the bank is defining and delivering brand-new financial services at startup speed through the simple concept of an enclave.

Enterprise architecture at Mozilla: An astrolabe to guide the future

February 7, 2020

How can Mozilla evolve its products and capabilities to serve the global, human-driven internet of the future? The company is guided by its mission and supported by the capabilities of its staff and community. Michael Van Kleeck dives into how Mozilla uses its version of enterprise architecture to wisely explore, evaluate, and pivot to and from future opportunities.

Enterprise architecture for artificial intelligence

February 7, 2020

The future of software is being driven by intelligent applications. By the year 2020, more than 85% of customer interactions will be carried out without humans. The road to enterprise intelligence starts with the humans behind the curtain. Kishau Rogers explains how to reduce the friction of AI adoption in the enterprise using systems thinking and people-centered workflows.

Ethical questions in software engineering

February 7, 2020

We developers and architects are a major force influencing software, technology, and the world it creates. If we really want to create a better world, we need to open our eyes to the link between ethics and software. Rotem Hermon discusses ethical challenges related to technology, sense of self, politics, and truth and explains what we can do about it.

Getting started with event-driven architecture

February 7, 2020

Event-driven programming has been proven useful in many situations. However, the asynchronous programming model often needs some time to get used to. Marco Emrich explores event concepts in a familiar language and walks you through solving an exciting kata with the help of event-driven programming.

How DAZN scales frontend applications with microfrontends

February 7, 2020

Microservices provide a way to break up a monolithic architecture into multiple atomic units, allowing an independent scalability of a service. They also provide a better way to divide the domains across multiple teams. Luca Mezzalira explains how to apply the same principles to frontend applications, enabling you to scale up a project with tens of developers without reducing the throughput.

How to get the best out of your team as a software architect

February 7, 2020

As people with strong technical backgrounds, we know how to get most out of the tools and devices we use, but this doesn't necessarily guarantee best results on a team. Bulama Yusuf explores proven ways to communicate and connect with a team as a software architect, ensuring that your team is working at its best.

How to improve your architectural visualizations

February 7, 2020

Communicating about architecture to non-IT and business stakeholders is a valuable skill for architects. After all, many architectural decisions are made by others, so they need to be informed with clear, honest, intelligible, and helpful information and advice. Jochem Schulenklopper shares theory and practical tips on eight facets of the visual communication of architecture.

I shall say this only once

February 7, 2020

And you shall do it only once. Exactly once. That's a very common assumption for most of business software. One trigger equals one outcome. Szymon Pobiega explains why duplicate messages are a fact of life in distributed systems (and why no infrastructure can help you). Fortunately, Szymon also shares tips on how to deal with nasty duplicate zombie messages.

Introducing serverless to your organization

February 7, 2020

Serverless computing offers the benefits of accelerated delivery and reduced operations costs. However it also brings tooling and architectural challenges. What are safe yet effective methods to introduce serverless to your organization? Mike Roberts discusses several options, drawn from his experience with teams that have faced this precise question.

Learning the three types of microservices

February 6, 2020

Microservices is a popular but vague term. Definitions of microservices can vary depending on what you want them to accomplish and how you want them to communicate with each other. Join Mike Amundsen to learn about the three types of microservices, see what makes them unique, and discover when you deploy each of them.

Mapping a domain model to a RESTful web API

February 6, 2020

A web API is a channel into your business domain. Because of its simplicity, REST is the de facto standard for developing web APIs, but translating complex domain behavior to simple REST concepts is typically not straightforward. Tom Hofte and Marco van der Linden explore RESTful resource modeling and share practical solutions to bridge the gap between a domain model and a RESTful API.

Observable microservices

February 6, 2020

Think of this talk as a Microservices 201. You know microservices basics, but can you successfully maintain them in production? Join Maria Gomez to explore the concept of observability as a way of maintain a healthy production environment.

Potholes in the road from monolithic hell: Microservices adoption anti-patterns

February 6, 2020

Chris Richarson details several anti-patterns of microservices adoption that he's observed while working with clients around the world. You'll learn the challenges that enterprises often face and how to overcome them as well as how to avoid the potholes when escaping monolithic hell.