Track Overview
Effective Microservices: What It Takes to Get the Most Out of This Approach
Microservices can be a very effective approach to speeding up delivery of value to your organization and to your customers - if you get them right!
Early adopters of microservices have been doing them for long enough now that they know the approaches that allow you to build, secure, observe and operate large scale distributed systems.
On this track, we bring you their insights and experience, with particular focus on:
- How to set up your organisation to make microservices successful
- Designing security into your microservices
- What you need to do to fight entropy as your microservice system matures
- What it takes to successfully go from a monolith to microservices
Sarah Wells
Former Tech Director for Engineering Enablement @FT (Financial Times)From this track
Pump It Up! Actually Gaining Benefit From Cloud Native Microservices
Tuesday May 17 / 10:00AM EDT
Please note: there will be no live Q&A after this session.So many organisations have flocked to 'cloud native', running containerised microservices on the public or private cloud, only to find the promised benefits fail to materialise. And we’ve seen the same...
Sam Newman
Microservice, Cloud, CI/CD Expert
No Next Next: Fighting Entropy in Your Microservices Architecture
Tuesday May 17 / 11:10AM EDT
Great! You’ve created your microservices architecture and you are reaping the benefits of independently deployable units and teams being wholly responsible for services. But a few years on and things aren’t quite as simple, clean and independent as they were originally. Maintaining...
Anna Shipman
Technical Director for Customer Products @FinancialTimes
Securing Microservices: Preventing Vulnerability Traversal
Tuesday May 17 / 12:20PM EDT
One of the advantages of microservices architecture is that teams can develop, maintain, and deploy each microservice independently. With single-responsibility, services can be scaled separately as required and doing so with a DevOps mentality substantially improves agility. How do we secure...
Stefania Chaplin
Solutions Architect @GitLab
Airbnb at Scale
Tuesday May 17 / 01:30PM 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
Speakers from this track
Sam Newman
Microservice, Cloud, CI/CD Expert
Sam is a technologist focusing in the areas of cloud, microservices, and continuous delivery - three topics which seem to overlap frequently. Providing consulting, training and advisory services to startups and large multi-national enterprises alike, he has over 20 years in IT as a developer, sys...
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Anna Shipman
Technical Director for Customer Products @FinancialTimes
Anna Shipman is Technical Director for Customer Products at the Financial Times, leading on the award-winning FT.com website and the FT iPhone and Android apps.She has been a software developer for over 15 years. Before working at the FT, she was a technical architect and the UK...
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Stefania Chaplin
Solutions Architect @GitLab
Stefania’s experience as a Solutions Architect within Cybersecurity, DevSecOps and OSS governance means she's helped countless organisations understand and implement security throughout their SDLC. As a python developer at heart, Stefania enjoys optimising and improving operational...
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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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Track Host
Sarah Wells
Former Tech Director for Engineering Enablement @FT (Financial Times)
Sarah Wells has been a developer for 20 years, leading delivery teams across consultancy, financial services, and media. Building the FT's content and metadata publishing platform using a microservices-based architecture led her to develop a deep interest in operability, observability, and...
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