Track Overview
Solutions Track II
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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Writing Reliable End to End Tests
At ThoughtWorks we place a high value on test automation. We’ve built a lot of testing tools. We talk and write about how important testing is. And that’s because we know teams rely on tests to quickly detect and fix problems in every stage of the build pipeline. But the truth is, it’s...
Zabil Cheriya Maliackal
Product Manager of Gauge @thoughtworks
Observability for Microservices: Practical Advice
The simple goal of observability is to make systems better. Gaining insights into the behavior of systems is critical to improve their overall health and resiliency and this is imperative for distributed systems, especially those with more cloud native architectures like microservices. But...
Alex Tasioulis
Software Engineer with focus on Cloud Native Way
Streaming Analytics - Actionable Machine Learning Insights
Are you ready to take your machine learning algorithms and make them operational within your business in real time? In this talk, we will walk through an architecture for taking a machine learning model from training into deployment for inference within an open source platform for real-time...
Riaz Mohammed
Senior Solutions Architect @hazelcast
Better User Experience in the Era of Digital Transformation
Slow is the new down. User experience plays a significant role in determining the success of a business as businesses globally are on their digital transformation trajectory. While DevOps teams are embracing public / hybrid cloud to run their business applications, they are left to battle diverse...
Rajalakshmi Srinivasan
Product Manager @Site24x7
Operating Multi-Tenant Kafka Services for Developers on Heroku
Operating Kafka as a service, at scale, is one challenge. Operating multi-tenant Kafka as a service, at scale, brings all kinds of new challenges. How do you determine the optimum packing density? How do you define and enforce resource limits so all tenants can coexist? How do you handle a large...
Tom Crayford
Infrastructure Engineer @Heroku
The State of Open Source Vulnerabilities Management
Open source usage has become a mainstream practice — it’s impossible to keep up with today’s pace of software production without it. The rise in open source usage has led to a dramatic rise in the number of open source vulnerabilities. It hit an all-time record in 2017 with...
Phyto Michael
Solution Engineer @WhiteSourceSoft
Speakers from this track
Zabil Cheriya Maliackal
Product Manager of Gauge @thoughtworks
Zabil is the Product Manager of Gauge, a free and open source test automation framework. He has close to two decades of experience building enterprise software and helping teams adopt sound engineering practices around continuous delivery and testing. He currently works at ThoughtWorks.
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Alex Tasioulis
Software Engineer with focus on Cloud Native Way
Alex is a software engineer who specializes in doing things the cloud native way. He previously worked as the Platform Engineering Lead at On the dot, where he employed cloud native solutions to solve technical challenges, and as a DevOps Consultant for OpenCredo, helping companies adopt modern...
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Riaz Mohammed
Senior Solutions Architect @hazelcast
Riaz has 18+ years’ experience in the IT, designing and developing solutions mainly in the Investment Banking sector. Having worked for the like of Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan Cazenove, Nomura, Software AG and currently at Hazelcast, he is proficient in High Level design and Low level hands-on...
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Rajalakshmi Srinivasan
Product Manager @Site24x7
Rajalakshmi Srinivasan, or Raji as she’s fondly called, has been with Zoho for 19 years. The wealth of experience that she has earned working on various high-tech products in the company has given her rich knowledge in the field of software product management. Her expertise covers a huge range,...
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Tom Crayford
Infrastructure Engineer @Heroku
Tom Crayford is an infrastructure engineer at Heroku, on the team that runs hundreds of Kafka clusters and millions of datastores. He likes teaching people things, like how to write faster or more reliable (or both) software.
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Track Host
Nitin Bharti
Managing Editor and Product Manager, QCon and InfoQ
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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