Track Overview
Solutions Track III
Industry practitioners and technical product managers from leading vendors demonstrate solutions to some of today's toughest software development challenges in the areas of performance monitoring, Big Data, software delivery, scalability, and more.
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Developing a Monitoring Philosophy
How should one approach monitoring in an organization? Observability and monitoring tends to be an afterthought in many situations. Even if there are dedicated teams, they may not be properly resourced and funded - leading to piecemeal approaches and point solutions. As organizations grow and...
Arijit Mukherji
CTO @SignalFx
JDK 9: Mission Accomplished. What Next for Java?
JDK 9 was released in September 2017 and includes many changes to the Java platform. The biggest is the Java Platform Module System (often referred to as Project Jigsaw). This breaks up the existing rt.jar file into 97 modules but also encapsulates internal APIs, such as...
Simon Ritter
Deputy CTO @Azul
Continuous Delivery of Microservices
Microservice architectures are generating a lot of interest lately. These architectures are seen as a way to decompose the complexity of monolithic systems. One of the key benefit of microservice architectures is the agility with which organizations can ship features, reducing time to...
Sheroy Marker
Head of Technology - Products @ThoughtWorks
Have Your Cake and Strong Consistency, too
Can you really have your cake and eat it, too? Is there such a thing as a truly fast system of record or an enterprise system of engagement? To get high performance the trade-off has been to forgo strong consistency. Aerospike 4.0 Hybrid Memory Architecture (HMA), leveraging the latest in NVMe...
Thad Omura
Executive vice president @ScaleFlux
Brian Bulkowski
CTO and CO-Founder @Aerospike
Tasty Topics
Are you struggling to pick through large amounts of real time data? Does your project create vast amounts of data and you don’t know how get actionable insights quickly enough? Did you consider topic routing and filtering? With some imagination, a publish/subscribe pattern making use of...
Mic Hussey
Speakers from this track
Arijit Mukherji
CTO @SignalFx
Arijit Mukherji is CTO at SignalFx and one of the original developers of Facebook’s metrics solution (ODS). He subsequently managed the development of Facebook’s networking tools, data visualization, and other infrastructure monitoring software. He has been focused on the monitoring space for...
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Simon Ritter
Deputy CTO @Azul
Simon Ritter is the Deputy CTO of Azul Systems. Simon has been in the IT business since 1984 and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Brunel University in the U.K.Simon joined Sun Microsystems in 1996 and started working with Java technology from JDK 1.0; he has spent time working...
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Sheroy Marker
Head of Technology - Products @ThoughtWorks
Sheroy has over 20 years experience with the design and implementation of large scale enterprise and distributed systems. At ThoughtWorks, he has worked with multiple enterprises to help deliver mission critical software, which most times includes working on their Continuous Delivery workflow. He...
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Thad Omura
Executive vice president @ScaleFlux
Mr. Thad Omura is the executive vice president of ScaleFlux responsible for worldwide marketing and is a leading evangelist for Computational Storage. Thad has a proven record in driving startups to IPO and high-value acquisitions, and has also previously served in executive roles at Seagate,...
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Brian Bulkowski
CTO and CO-Founder @Aerospike
Brian has more than 25 years of experience in the Silicon Valley as a team leader, architect, and senior manager, entirely in the area of large-scale server infrastructures (commodity routers at Novell, video servers at Starlight Networks, large-scale broadband at Liberate, and distributed...
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Track Host
Nitin Bharti
Managing Editor and Product Manager, C4Media
Over the last decade, Nitin has helped build several notable online developer communities including TheServerSide.com, DZone, and The Code Project. He is known for his extensive editorial work in the Enterprise Java, .NET, SOA, and Agile communities. As Managing Editor and Product Manager at...
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