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
No Next Next: Fighting Entropy in Your Microservices Architecture
Wednesday Apr 6 / 10:35AM BST
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
Pump It Up! Actually Gaining Benefit From Cloud Native Microservices
Wednesday Apr 6 / 11:50AM BST
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 story repeat itself time and again with other hyped concepts...
Sam Newman
Microservice, Cloud, CI/CD Expert
Securing Microservices: Preventing Vulnerability Traversal
Wednesday Apr 6 / 01:40PM BST
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
Getting the Most Out of Microservices
Wednesday Apr 6 / 02:55PM BST
How can you make a success of microservices? How do you know whether it is the right approach for you?Microservices trade development complexity for operational complexity, but when is that the right trade off to make? And what are the most important things to keep in mind if you want to be...
Nicky Wrightson
Ventures CTO @blenheimchalcot
Stefania Chaplin
Solutions Architect @GitLab
Holly Cummins
Quarkus Senior Principal Software Engineer @RedHat
Airbnb at Scale
Wednesday Apr 6 / 04:10PM BST
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
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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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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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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Nicky Wrightson
Ventures CTO @blenheimchalcot
Nicky has worked as an engineer for over 20 years over many industries. She is currently working as Ventures CTO for Blenheim Chalcot, a venture builder which believes in investing more than just funds but investing knowledge and experience, ideas and infrastructure to build new sustainable...
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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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Track Host
Sarah Wells
Former Tech Director for Engineering Enablement @FT (Financial Times)
Sarah is a technology leader, consultant and conference speaker with a focus on microservices, engineering enablement, observability and devops. She has over 20 years experience as a developer, principal engineer and tech director across product, platform, SRE and devops teams.Sarah spent...
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