Track Overview
Microservice Patterns and Antipatterns: Lessons From the Trenches
Patterns for building, organizing, observing, and operating microservices in the real world. Learn from organizations that have been doing this for years.
From this track
7 Ways To Fail at Microservices
Tuesday Nov 2 / 12:10PM EDT
We all know the promise of microservices - organizational, agility, decoupling, pizza lunches, autonomy, fewer meetings. Some organizations actually achieve this. Others … don’t.It turns out dividing an application up across multiple containers isn’t enough. Distributed is not...
Holly Cummins
Quarkus Senior Principal Software Engineer @RedHat
Airbnb at Scale
Tuesday Nov 2 / 01:10PM EDT
In 2018, Airbnb embarked on a high-stakes journey to transform our technology architecture from a monolithic Ruby app to a more scalable Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Three years on, we are in a good place to look back at what we have accomplished and reflect on where we are. In this talk,...
Selina Liu
Senior Software Engineer @Airbnb
Managing Tech Debt in a Microservice Architecture
Tuesday Nov 2 / 02:10PM EDT
Every software company has to deal with tech debt, which slows down development. Ironically, it's usually difficult to get the support of the product managers who have a long list of high-profile features with tight deadlines to invest in paying down tech debt. What’s more, the problems...
Glenn Engstrand
Software Architect @rally_health
Present and Future of the Microservice Architecture
Tuesday Nov 2 / 03:10PM EDT
When thinking about a microservice architecture there is so much to consider! The topic is broad, and sometimes the expertise needed to understand parts of it are deep. This can make them a pretty daunting subject. Lucking, QCon is at hand!In the final slot of the microservices track, we'll...
Glenn Engstrand
Software Architect @rally_health
Holly Cummins
Quarkus Senior Principal Software Engineer @RedHat
Dave Farley
Developer, Speaker, Consultant, Author of 'Continuous Delivery'
Speakers from this track
Holly Cummins
Quarkus Senior Principal Software Engineer @RedHat
Holly Cummins is a Senior Principal Software Engineer on the Red Hat Quarkus team and a Java Champion. Before joining Red Hat, Holly was a long time IBMer. In her time at IBM, Holly has been a full-stack javascript developer, a WebSphere Liberty build architect, a client-facing consultant, a JVM...
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Selina Liu
Senior Software Engineer @Airbnb
Selina is a senior software engineer at Airbnb, the world’s largest platform for accommodation-sharing and unique travel experiences. She’s passionate about building performant and resilient services that scale and evolve well with Airbnb’s growing business needs. In her free...
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Software Architect @rally_health
Glenn Engstrand is a software architect in the part of Optum Digital that was Rally Health. Glenn's focus is working with engineers in order to deliver scalable, server side, 12 factor compliant application architectures. Glenn was a breakout speaker at Adobe's internal Advertising Cloud...
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Dave Farley
Developer, Speaker, Consultant, Author of 'Continuous Delivery'
Dave Farley is a regular conference speaker, an independent software developer and consultant, creator of the CD YouTube channel and founder of Continuous Delivery Ltd. Dave is co-author of the Jolt-award winning book ‘Continuous Delivery’, and has a new book on “Modern Software...
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Track Host
Chris Richardson
Creator of microservices.io; Author of Microservices patterns & Java Champion
Chris Richardson is a developer and architect. He is a Java Champion, a JavaOne rock star and the author of POJOs in Action, which describes how to build enterprise Java applications with frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. Chris was also the founder of the original CloudFoundry.com, an...
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