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Wednesday, November 14
 

8:30am EET

Registration
Wednesday November 14, 2018 8:30am - 9:15am EET
1. Alfa
  Free time

9:15am EET

Welcome talk
Wednesday November 14, 2018 9:15am - 9:30am EET
1. Alfa
  Session

9:30am EET

Keynote: Denise Jacobs @denisejacobs - Banish Your Inner Critic v2.0: Swipe Left!
Research shows that self-talk is not only a key component to thinking and processing information, but is also how we build our ideas of who we are. This means that when self-talk goes awry, it’s the main source of our biggest block to creativity: the Inner Critic. What if there were simple and effective ways to change our self-talk for the better and banish the inner critic in order to do our best work as contributors, collaborators, and leaders? Fortunately, there are! First, you’ll discover the 3 mental power tools that we already possess to stop the inner critic in its tracks. Then you’ll learn methods for dealing with the fear of being judged and criticized, how to transform highly critical self-talk into that of approval and encouragement, and ways to feel like your ideas are good enough and stop committing “ideacide.” By the end, you’ll have a roadmap of how to both get unstuck and channel your creativity as a force for positive change in the world. 
Speakers
avatar for Denise Jacobs

Denise Jacobs

Founder & CEO, The Creative Dose
Denise Jacobs is a Speaker + Author + Creativity Evangelist who speaks at conferences and consults with companies worldwide. As the Founder + CEO of The Creative Dose, keynote speaker, and trainer, she helps individuals in companies unleash their creativity through banishing their inner critic and hacking their creative brains. Denise’s keynotes and trainings give A Creative Dose™ – an injection of inspiration and immediately applicable... Read More →

Wednesday November 14, 2018 9:30am - 10:30am EET
1. Alfa
  Session

10:30am EET

Coffee/tea break
Wednesday November 14, 2018 10:30am - 10:50am EET
1. Alfa
  Free time

10:50am EET

[SLIDES]Bartosz Sypytkowski @Horusiath - GraphQL - an elegant weapon... for a more civilized age.
During this talk we'll take a look at standard REST-ful oriented web applications. What are their pros and cons and how they have been addressed by a GraphQL - an application-level query language and standard for building web applications, originally created at Facebook, now adopted by many companies all over the world, with implementations present almost on every platform. We'll also cover a trade offs of this approach and how to deal with them.
Speakers
avatar for Bartosz Sypytkowski

Bartosz Sypytkowski

Software Engineer
Akka.NET core team member since 2014. Enthusiast of distributed systems and functional programming.

Bartosz Sypytkowski @Horusiath GraphQL an elegant weapon... for a more civilized age. pptx
Wednesday November 14, 2018 10:50am - 11:40am EET
5. Zeta
  Session

10:50am EET

[SLIDES]Martin Buberl @martinbuberl - Serverless — It all started in Vegas
This talk is about our journey to Serverless at Trustpilot. It spans the past 2 years and dives into how we were able to successfully fast track the adoption of Serverless within our engineering organization. We'll share insights, architectural patterns and lessons learned on how we run Serverless functions in production today. This presentation hopefully inspires you to join the Serverless movement and gives you ideas and actionables on how to get started with Serverless in your company.
Speakers
avatar for Martin Buberl

Martin Buberl

VP ENGINEERING, Trustpilot
As VP of Engineering at Trustpilot I’m on a mission to build the best engineering team in the Nordics. With a person-centered approach, I focus on high-leverage activities to maximize impact, product value and iteration speed. I’m an AWS User Group Leader and a mentor fo... Read More →

Martin Buberl @martinbuberl Serverless — It all started in Vegas pdf
Wednesday November 14, 2018 10:50am - 11:40am EET
2. Beta
  Session

10:50am EET

[SLIDES]Matthew Renze @MatthewRenze - Artificial Intelligence: The Future of Software
Whether you realize it or not, we are currently entering the era of artificial intelligence. AI technologies will radically transform our economy, our society, and our lives. As a result, the software industry is preparing for a major transition as well. However, most developers do not yet possess the skills necessary to remain relevant in our new data-driven economy.
In this session, we will learn about modern artificial intelligence. We'll learn why it’s important and how it will impact you, your career, and our future. We’ll also learn how a series of modern technologies including The Internet of Things, Big Data, and machine learning are combining to create fully autonomous intelligent systems.
Speakers
avatar for Matthew Renze

Matthew Renze

Software Consultant, Renze Consulting
I am a data science consultant, author, and international public speaker. Over the past 18 years, I've taught over 100,000 developers and IT professonals how to make better decisions with data science. My clients include small software startups to Fortune 100 companies around the... Read More →

Matthew Renze @MatthewRenze Artificial Intelligence The Future of Software pdf
Wednesday November 14, 2018 10:50am - 11:40am EET
1. Alfa
  Session

10:50am EET

[SLIDES]Rafal Legiedz @rafek - Augmented Reality - The State of Play
I jumped onto the AR bandwagon after 10+ years of delivering line of business applications using a variety of platforms. Beginning with HoloLens and Windows Mixed Reality, I discovered this beautiful land of new possibilities. The hype is real, and many big players (Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, you name it) are pushing AR to become ubiquitous. Hence the abundance of different approaches to AR to the point that it's hard to follow. After speaking with a good portion of developers and business people at conferences, and answering questions, I found out there is still work to be done to show people what the real capabilities of AR are. This session aims to present what's going on in this world and that we're ready to join the revolution in how humans interact with digital content.
Speakers
avatar for Rafal Legiedz

Rafal Legiedz

Software Engineer, Solidbrain
Rafał works as a software engineer for Solidbrain. Being in the industry since 2007 he develops his passion for the software at every possible moment. He believes that being pragmatic in our field is very helpful and proves that by switching technologies he uses whenever there is... Read More →

Rafal Legiedz @rafek Augmented Reality The State of Play pdf
Wednesday November 14, 2018 10:50am - 11:40am EET
4. Lambda
  Session

10:50am EET

[SLIDES]Sanne Menning @sannemenning - Failing forward
We will show you how we help organizations innovate, improve efficiency and optimize customer
experience and satisfaction with advanced analytics, data science and AI. Using real-world cases in the
finance and utilities industry, we’ll illustrate the entire process: from understanding the business and
data collection to AI operationalization.
We will show our customers’ challenges and what choices we made to provide them with the best
possible solutions. Using a standard approach to AI problems, based on CRISP-DM, we will demonstrate
the steps we took in each project. We will show you how to leverage cloud power and flexibility using
Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Lake Analytics, Azure Databricks, and Azure cognitive services.
Speakers
avatar for Sanne Menning

Sanne Menning

PhD, Data Scientist, Macaw Netherlands
Sanne holds a PhD in Neuroscience and has always been psyched about everything data, statistics and math. She works with clients in various industries, helping them invent, design and build real-world applications of advanced analytics, predictive models and AI. She is passionate... Read More →

Sanne Menning @sannemenning Failing forward pdf
Wednesday November 14, 2018 10:50am - 11:40am EET
3. Garage
  Session

12:00pm EET

[SLIDES]Jon Gyllensward @jongyllen - Crashing, monitoring and debugging in Azure
Everything was prepared. The features were in place, the critical bugs were fixed, the environments were up and running and the test were green. We were finally about to go into production with the system we had been working so hard on for the past 18 months.

We had deployed in Azure with redundancy, fail-overs and slots using continuous delivery. The customers had been doing acceptance testing for weeks. We were ready!

Then it happened.

Three days before going into production, the pipeline started halting. The applications crashed one by one. First the development environment, following the test environment. Then the staging environment and last; the production environment. No exceptions or logs pointing us in the direction of the problem.

We had three days to pin down and fix it.

This is a war-story about how we turned our Azure environments upside down, logged, debugged and at last, found the nasty bug and fixed it.
Speakers
avatar for Jon Gyllensward

Jon Gyllensward

VP Engineering, Chinsay AB
Jon is a passionate developer, team leader and systems architect. He is VP of Engineering at Chinsay, trying to help his team of skilled engineers building innovative and reliable systems to revolutionize the concept och contract management.

Jon Gyllensward @jongyllen Crashing, monitoring and debugging in Azure pptx
Wednesday November 14, 2018 12:00pm - 12:50pm EET
4. Lambda
  Session

12:00pm EET

[SLIDES]Jose Carlos Chavez @jcchavezs - Distributed Tracing: understanding how all your components work together
Understanding failures or latencies in monoliths or small systems usually starts with looking at a single component in isolation. Microservices architecture invalidates this assumption because end user requests now traverse dozen of components and a single component simply does not give you enough information: each part is just one side of a bigger story.

In this talk we’ll look at distributed tracing which summarizes all sides of the story into a shared timeline and also distributed tracing tools like Zipkin, which highlights the relationship between components, from the very top of the stack to the deepest aspects of the system.
Speakers
avatar for Jose Carlos Chavez

Jose Carlos Chavez

Software Engineer, Tetrate
José Carlos Chávez is a Software Engineer at Tetrate.io, an OWASP Coraza co-leader, a Zipkin core team member and a Mathematics student at the University of Barcelona. He enjoys working in Security, compiling to WASM, designing APIs and building distributed systems. While not working... Read More →

Jose Carlos Chavez @jcchavezs Distributed Tracing understanding how all your components work together pdf
Wednesday November 14, 2018 12:00pm - 12:50pm EET
5. Zeta
  Session

12:00pm EET

[SLIDES]Layla Porter @LaylaCodesIt - APIs Exposed!
More and more developers are building APIs, whether that be for consumption by client-side applications, exposing endpoints directly to customers so they can use an alternative front-end or wrapping up services in containers.

Now that we have all these exposed endpoints, what are we doing to secure them? Previously, our monolith was self contained with limited points of access making authentication and authorisation more straightforward - that’s no longer the case.

We’ll cover the potential risks we may face such as cross site scripting and BruteForce attacks as well as look at the possible options for securing API endpoints including OAUTH, Access Tokens, JSON web tokens, IP whitelisting, rate limiting to name but a few.
Speakers
avatar for Layla Porter

Layla Porter

Speaker, Techorama
Layla is a self-taught .NET web developer and former Pilates teacher and professional horse-rider. She is passionate about breaking stereotypes and helping people of all ages and backgrounds get into coding, making software engineering more accessible. She mentors at Girls Code MK... Read More →

Layla Porter @LaylaCodesIt APIs Exposed! pptx
Wednesday November 14, 2018 12:00pm - 12:50pm EET
3. Garage
  Session

12:00pm EET

[SLIDES]Martin Thompson @mjpt777 - Cluster Consensus: When Aeron Met Raft
Consensus protocols enable distributed systems to agree a common view of shared state. This common view allows a cluster to continue service while a majority of its members are available. Raft was designed to be understandable and based on simple proven protocol, however like most consensus protocols there is little guidance on how to implement it efficiently.
Aeron was designed to be an understandable messaging system, it was also designed to be fast, very fast, even in its Java implementation. If the design principles of Aeron were applied to Raft, could we create a high-performance consensus implementation? Come to this talk if you would like to find out how to build a high performance distributed event system in Java and see what happened when Aeron met Raft.
Speakers
avatar for Martin Thompson

Martin Thompson

High-Performance & Low-Latency Computing Specialist, Real Logic
Martin is a Java Champion with over 2 decades of experience building complex and high-performance computing systems. He is most recently known for his work on Aeron and SBE. Previously at LMAX he was the co-founder and CTO when he created the Disruptor. Prior to LMAX Martin worked for Betfair, three different content companies wrestling with the world largest product catalogues, and was a lead on some of the most significant C++ and Java systems of the 1990s in the automotive and finance domains.Believing in Mechanical Sympathy... Read More →

Martin Thompson @mjpt777 Cluster Consensus When Aeron Met Raft pdf
Wednesday November 14, 2018 12:00pm - 12:50pm EET
1. Alfa
  Session

12:00pm EET

[SLIDES]Santeri Kangas @KangasSanteri - IoT security powered by AI on a cloud scale
Research company Gartner predicts that more than 20B connected devices will be used worldwide by 2020. Protecting and securing IoT devices starts with device identification.

How advanced device identification helps to protect smart homes? How to use the latest cloud technology and innovative machine learning algorithms to secure connected homes? How to scale to 15M households, 100M devices worldwide in one year?

Santeri Kangas shares his insights about running an agile organization that managed to secure the router while deploying the private cloud effectively.
Speakers
avatar for Santeri Kangas

Santeri Kangas

CTO, CUJO AI
Santeri has 26 years of experience in cyber security  and cloud computing, and a commendable track record in building award-winning security software products for network operators. Kangas has worked to successfully organizations, including as a CTO at F-Secure, CTO of vulnerability... Read More →

Santeri Kangas @KangasSanteri IoT security powered by AI on a cloud scale pptx
Wednesday November 14, 2018 12:00pm - 12:50pm EET
2. Beta
  Session

12:50pm EET

Lunch
Wednesday November 14, 2018 12:50pm - 1:50pm EET
1. Alfa
  Free time

1:50pm EET

[SLIDES]Ewelina Kurasz @kuraszewelina - Business Analysts – do we really need them?
In the Scrum Guide – a 17-page Scrum Bible – you will not find a single word about business analyst. And there are many doubts and questions about how to put a BA in an agile project.

Some will say that BA has become unnecessary friction between business and developers – an additional layer that negatively affects communication and creates the ”Chinese whisper” effect. But IT has different communication requirements than business. A message sufficient for a proper reaction of the business recipient may be incomprehensible or too imprecise for the IT recipient.

So is there a place for a BA in a Scrum Team? Let’s analyze it during my talk!
Speakers
avatar for Ewelina Kurasz

Ewelina Kurasz

IT Business Analyst, Volvo Group
Social scientist. Business Analyst. Ex IT Recruiter. In love with IT. Fascinated by the process of coding. Believes that communication matters. Works in automotive business and finds it awesome. When not at work, you can find Ewelina at IT conferences/meetups or enjoying her introversion... Read More →

Ewelina Kurasz @kuraszewelina Business Analysts – do we really need them pptx
Wednesday November 14, 2018 1:50pm - 2:40pm EET
3. Garage
  Session

1:50pm EET

[SLIDES]Henk Boelman @hboelman - Unleash some AI into the wild...
We’ll dive into a real-world case on how A.I. can assist medical workers in the field. From eliminating time-consuming documentation to gaining valuable insights into their work. By letting A.I. take care of common tasks, medical workers can focus on delivering essential medical care.

In this session, I’ll take you along on a A.I.-First technical journey, from patient identification handled by Cognitive Services, efficiency improvement with natural language processing, handling data in Azure/CosmosDB and building & delivering the App with Xamarin and Visual Studio Team services.

We took the app to some remote places in Uganda and beta tested it. We will zoom into some challenges we faced running it in the field and discuss the tools and components used.

Join this session and bring back some real-world A.I. lessons to your organisation.
Speakers
avatar for Henk Boelman

Henk Boelman

Ai MVP, Heroes – Think Digital
Henk is a Cloud Solutions Architect and Microsoft AI MVP from the Netherlands. He started out as a software developer in the late '90s and later moved on to the role of architect. He now guides organizations in their cloud adventure, with a strong focus on creating intelligent cloud... Read More →

Henk Boelman @hboelman Unleash some AI into the wild... pdf
Wednesday November 14, 2018 1:50pm - 2:40pm EET
5. Zeta
  Session

1:50pm EET

[SLIDES]Johannes Brodwall @jhannes - Privacy will kill your application: Surviving GDPR
On May 25th the European Union enacted new privacy laws that apply uniformly to all member nations. These rules will pretty much apply to anyone who builds or owns IT systems and the implications may surprise you.

In this practical and entertaining talk, Johannes explores how a simple example of an everyday application gets entangled with privacy issues and how to untangle yourself.

As a side effect of the going to the talk, you will be able to impress your friends with statements like "according GDPR article 7, subsection 4, this is not a legally obtained consent" - a phrase that works surprisingly well at parties.
Speakers
avatar for Johannes Brodwall

Johannes Brodwall

Principal Software Engineer, Sopra Steria
Johannes Brodwall works as principal software engineer for Sopra Steria Norway where he builds software. Johannes has been working as a programmer, architect, agile coach and programmer again for 15 years. He has worked as architect in large public sector projects to create nationally... Read More →

Johannes Brodwall @jhannes Privacy will kill your application Surviving GDPR pdf
Wednesday November 14, 2018 1:50pm - 2:40pm EET
1. Alfa
  Session

1:50pm EET

[SLIDES]Rimantas Benetis - Building Sustainable Software
Have you ever worked in a company which has plenty of legacy software built by "other developers". That software seems to be totally unmaintainable and probably needs to be rewritten and as a bonus there are another x applications/system hanging on top of this.
Guess what - It will be same conversation after someone joins your company where you are making this new and shiny software after 5 years.
So what’s the magic - how do we create something that lasts?
The answer is - there is no magic, only hard work and good decisions along the way.
The other important pieces to this puzzle are understanding that this is a moving target and all departments needs to work together to get it right.
In this presentation I will cover the main points that need to be addressed in order to have a software that can evolve and adopt as time passes and that there is no more "release and forget" approach.
Speakers
avatar for Rimantas Benetis

Rimantas Benetis

Technology Director, Devbridge Group
Rimantas specializes in highly scalable systems and agile development. His job at Devbridge Group is wide-ranging, as he offers technical support to the sales team, educational activities team (Sourcery Academies), and helps to run the internal IT infrastructure. He loves his job... Read More →

Rimantas Benetis Building Sustainable Software pptx
Wednesday November 14, 2018 1:50pm - 2:40pm EET
2. Beta
  Session

1:50pm EET

[SLIDES]Sam Elamin @samelamin - Lessons learnt implementing scalable, fault-tolerant data pipelines with Apache Spark
ETL pipelines ingest data from a variety of sources and must handle incorrect, incomplete or inconsistent records and produce curated, consistent data that delivers invaluable insight into the customers behaviour
 
In this talk Sam Elamin will relate his real life experience in building robust data processing pipelines powered by Spark that balances the considerations of extreme performance, speed of development, and cost of maintenance.

Sam will walk through building a Datalake using best practice patterns and running hundreds of jobs in parallel using open source tools including Apache Spark, Apache Airflow and Presto that underline systems which are dealing with £100,000 worth of transactions every hour, and more importantly will also highlight the pitfalls to avoid while providing scalable and reliable big data solutions

If you are curious about becoming a data engineer or fancy a move to big data then this is the talk for you!
Speakers
avatar for Sam Elamin

Sam Elamin

Data Engineer, Elamin LTD
My name is Sam and I am a Big Data Engineer as well as a Software Craftsman and Apache Spark evangelist. I am interested in Big Data, Metrics Driven Development, Continuous Delivery and is currently exploring Real Time Analytics, as as well as streaming tools and frameworks like Apache... Read More →

Sam Elamin @samelamin Lessons learnt implementing scalable, fault tolerant data pipelines with Apache Spark pdf
Wednesday November 14, 2018 1:50pm - 2:40pm EET
4. Lambda
  Session

3:00pm EET

[SLIDES]Darija Sapozenkova-Hauge - Chatbot is an answer. But what is a question?
Tips, tricks and pitfalls designing a chat bot user experience. And most importantly - why design a chatbot?
Speakers
avatar for Darija Sapozenkova-Hauge

Darija Sapozenkova-Hauge

Chief Consultant & Team Lead, Ciber Norge
Darija is an experienced Oslo based UX consultant and team leader. Her experience spans everything from UX for chat bot, customer journey mapping for B2B customers of telecom sector and current UX lead role for bank app project. She publishes articles and blogs, holds presentations... Read More →

Darija Sapozenkova Hauge Chatbot is an answer. But what is a question compressed pdf
Wednesday November 14, 2018 3:00pm - 3:50pm EET
4. Lambda
  Session

3:00pm EET

[SLIDES]Hannes Lowette @hannes_lowette - Build software like a bag of marbles, not a castle of LEGO
If you have ever played with Lego, you will know that adding, removing or changing features of a completed castle isn’t as easy as it seems. You will have to deconstruct large parts to get to where you want to be, to build it all up again afterwards. Unfortunately, our software is often built the same way. Wouldn’t it be better if our software behaved like a bag of marbles? So you can just add, remove or replace them at will?
Most of us have taken different approaches to building software: a big monolith, a collection of services, a bus architecture, etc. But whatever your large scale architecture is, at the granular level (a single service or host), you will probably still end up with tightly couple code. Adding functionality means making changes to every layer, service or component involved. It gets even harder if you want to enable or disable features for certain deployments: you’ll need to wrap code in feature flags, write custom DB migration scripts, etc. There has to be a better way!

So what if you think of functionality as loose feature assemblies? We can construct our code in such a way that adding a feature is as simple as adding the assembly to your deployment, and removing it is done by just deleting the file. We would open the door for so many scenarios!
In this talk, I will explain how to tackle the following parts of your application to achieve this goal: WebAPI, Entity Framework, Onion Architecture, IoC and database migrations. And most of all, when you would want to do this. Because… ‘it depends’.
Speakers
avatar for HANNES LOWETTE

HANNES LOWETTE

Competence Coach, AXXES
Hannes is a developer, a coach and a father of 3.In his role as a .NET consultant at Axxes, he likes performance, databases, distributed systems and large scale apps. But most of all, he likes playing devil’s advocate in technical discussions by playing the ‘it depends’ card... Read More →

Hannes Lowette @hannes lowette Build software like a bag of marbles, not a castle of LEGO pptx
Wednesday November 14, 2018 3:00pm - 3:50pm EET
3. Garage
  Session

3:00pm EET

[SLIDES]Jimmy Bogard @jbogard - Vertical Slice Architecture
Moving from a layered architecture to a vertical slice architecture can be a bit daunting. We remove abstractions, complex structures, and focus building on the axis of change, then what's next? What new structures, patterns, and policies will need to be introduced in this style of architecture? How will we deal with common business functionality, and where do concepts like CQRS and DDD fit in?

In this session, we'll introduce the idea of vertical slice architectures, and dive into the patterns, tools, and techniques used with slices. We'll also cover how you can fit vertical slices into different kinds of systems, from desktop, SPA, and normal MVC applications. Finally, we'll look at some of the new challenges that come with slices and layers, and how a different approach provides a much more maintainable end result.
Speakers
avatar for JIMMY BOGARD

JIMMY BOGARD

Creator of OSS library AutoMapper, Headspring
Jimmy is a member of the ASPInsiders group, the C# Insiders group, and received the "Microsoft Most Valuable Professional" (MVP) award for ASP.NET in 2009-2018. Jimmy is also the creator and maintainer of the popular OSS library AutoMapper.

Jimmy Bogard @jbogard Vertical Slice Architecture pptx
Wednesday November 14, 2018 3:00pm - 3:50pm EET
1. Alfa
  Session

3:00pm EET

[SLIDES]Michael Yarinchuk @Myarichuk - Raft - Bringing Democracy to the Cloud
Since its introduction in 1989, Paxos has been a most prevalent protocol for solving consensus in distributed systems. Not long ago, researches at Stanford published Raft protocol - a more understandble and approachable alternative to Paxos.

In this talk I will talk about design of distributed systems and introduce Raft, reveal its inner-workings and show how it is useful in solving reliability issues inherent to all distributed systems.
Michael Yarinchuk @Myarichuk Raft Bringing Democracy to the Cloud pptx
Wednesday November 14, 2018 3:00pm - 3:50pm EET
5. Zeta
  Session

3:00pm EET

[SLIDES]Peter Milne @helipilot50 - Moving from Anarchy to Usability and Sustainability
This talk covers the architecture and challenges of moving user-facing applications from startup mode to enterprise mode.

The problem of 88 different applications that use every JS framework, 600+ API endpoints, multiple JavaScript dialects, with an unproductive UX or UI components.

I will cover architecture to facilitate the migration to a large scale Single Page web application and the environment that supports it. Also, I will discuss the challenges of introducing new technologies, like React, GraphQL and Node.js, to an entrenched development organisation with strong opinions (smile).
Speakers
avatar for Peter Milne

Peter Milne

Technology Architect, Adform
Peter is the Technology Architect at Adform, based in Copenhagen, where actively is involved architecting and migrating technologies and work practices to a scalable enterprise platform. Before Adform he was a Field Engineer at Objectivity launching a new Graph Database product: ThingSpan... Read More →

Peter Milne @helipilot50 Moving from Anarchy to Usability and Sustainability pdf
Wednesday November 14, 2018 3:00pm - 3:50pm EET
2. Beta
  Session

3:50pm EET

Coffee/tea break
Wednesday November 14, 2018 3:50pm - 4:10pm EET
1. Alfa
  Free time

4:10pm EET

[SLIDES]Audrys Kažukauskas - Agile nowadays. Need for a higher gear
A tectonic shift has taken place and Agile software development is now the mainstream. Although there are still bumps on the road, everyone agrees Agile is the way to go. Most of you already use Scrum or Kanban, mixed with technical practices of Extreme Programming, have adopted DevOps, and enjoy Continuous Delivery with 1-Click Deployment to push features into production as they are completed. Is there a “next big thing” coming to make us significantly more productive? There is. Join me to explore for it together.
Speakers
avatar for Audrys Kažukauskas

Audrys Kažukauskas

CTO, HomeToGo
Audrys Kažukauskas has been building the world’s leading metasearch engines for more than 12 years now. It all started back in 2006, when he became Tech Lead at the flight metasearch startup SWOODOO, which then quickly rose to the leading position in German-speaking countries... Read More →

Audrys Kažukauskas Agile nowadays. Need for a higher gear pdf
Wednesday November 14, 2018 4:10pm - 5:00pm EET
2. Beta
  Session

4:10pm EET

[SLIDES]Debbie O'Brien @debs_obrien - How we made frontend development easy and fast by building a custom built framework
We looked at many frameworks and many ways of fixing our code taking into account all the problems we were having and what the business needed not just now but also in the future as new brands were being created by the week. There wasn't really any framework that suited our needs plus we didn't have the time to train our whole team to use a new framework so we basically created our own. That might sound crazy. Why reinvent the wheel? We really believed this was the best option for our companies needs and that it would solve their problems and allow the frontend team to easily migrate into it and make websites easy and fast without changing too much the languages they were using.
Speakers
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DEBBIE O'BRIEN

Frontend Tech Lead, Patterson Agency
Debbie works as a Frontend Tech Lead at Patterson Agency, a digital agency in Mallorca, Spain. With over 10 years of experience in Frontend development, she has a special love for JavaScript frameworks, especially Vue.js and Nuxt.js and improving performance with webpack.Debbie holds... Read More →

Debbie O'Brien @debs obrien How we made frontend development easy and fast by building a custom built framework pdf
Wednesday November 14, 2018 4:10pm - 5:00pm EET
4. Lambda
  Session

4:10pm EET

[SLIDES]Dennis Traub @dtraub - Successful, Accomplished, Depressed - About Performance, Perfectionism, and Burnout in IT
More than two decades of working in IT had taken Dennis to his physical limits. His collapse came unexpected but, in reality, he could easily have seen it coming.

It also was about time though! That way, Dennis was able to realize that he had failed to look after himself for the most part of his life. He had only focused on what he thought others expected of him.

Since his burnout, Dennis has been spending a lot of time finding out what's important to him. And one of these things is to share his experience with burnout and depression as a major issue in modern society. He talks about our obsession with performance and productivity, and about the negative self-image that troubles so many of us.

He shares his ideas on how we can clear our minds from time to time, how to be able to find our true selves. It seems like nowadays, everything and everyone needs to be faster, better, more perfect. Dennis will show you how you can find some time and space for yourself and what's important to you.
Speakers
avatar for DENNIS TRAUB

DENNIS TRAUB

CLOUD EXPERT & EVANGELIST, Codecentric AG
With more than 20 years in the industry, Dennis has been building software for many clients, ranging from startups to multinational corporations. As a Fellow at codecentric he helps his clients transforming their business through technology, with an emphasis on digitization and the... Read More →

Dennis Traub @dtraub Successful, Accomplished, Depressed About Performance, Perfectionism, and Burnout in IT pdf
Wednesday November 14, 2018 4:10pm - 5:00pm EET
1. Alfa
  Session

4:10pm EET

[SLIDES]Sean Farmar @farmar - How can monitoring save your bacon
We usually think of monitoring as something the Operations team will take care of. In a "monolithic" system that might be enough.
But we like to distribute our systems. We deploy microservices with persistent queues and automated retries. We allow them to tolerate failure, at least for short periods of time. Sometimes it may seem everything is running OK. No heavy load, no memory or CPU surges, no immediately observable slow-downs. But in fact the system may not be functioning and effective performance is degrading. Messages are piling up in queues. Business SLA's are starting to get breached. With distributed systems, we need to do more than basic monitoring.
Let's talk about how we can do a better job at keeping the lights on and ensuring our systems are functioning as designed.
I'll introduce various aspects of monitoring and the things we need to think about when writing code. I'll show how you can optimize your distributed systems and find performance bottlenecks. You'll discover how you can win if you give monitoring a bit more love :-)
Speakers
avatar for Sean Farmar

Sean Farmar

Solution Architect, Particular Software
Sean Farmar holds the world record for answering the most NServiceBus questions - even more than Udi :-).With over 20 years of experience, he specializes in providing simple solutions for complex business requirements using NServiceBus and applying SOA principles inspired by Udi Dahan.As... Read More →

Sean Farmar @farmar How can monitoring save your bacon pptx
Wednesday November 14, 2018 4:10pm - 5:00pm EET
5. Zeta
  Session

4:10pm EET

[SLIDES]Tomer Gabel @tomerg - Non-deterministic Software for the Rest of Us
Classically-trained (if you can call it that) software engineers are used to clear problem statements and clear success and acceptance criteria. Need a mobile front-end for your blog? Sure! Support instant messaging for a million concurrent users? No problem! Store and serve 50TB of JSON blobs? Presto!

Unfortunately, it turns out modern software often includes challenges that we have a hard time with: those without clear criteria for correctness, no easy way to measure performance and success is about more than green dashboards. Your blog platform better have a spam filter, your instant messaging service has to have search, and your blobs will inevitably be fed into some data scientist's crazy contraption.

In this talk I'll share my experiences of learning to deal with non-deterministic problems, what made the process easier for me and what I've learned along the way. With any luck, you'll have an easier time of it!
Speakers
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TOMER GABEL

Principal Engineer, WeWork
A programming junkie and computer history aficionado, Tomer's been around the block a few times before settling in at WeWork. Over the years he's built any number of (predominantly back-end) systems, cofounded two major Israeli user groups (Java.IL and Underscore), organized an annual... Read More →

Tomer Gabel @tomerg Non deterministic Software for the Rest of Us pdf
Wednesday November 14, 2018 4:10pm - 5:00pm EET
3. Garage
  Session

5:20pm EET

[SLIDES]Keynote: Jeffrey Richter - Architecting Distributed Cloud Apps
Cloud applications are all about running cost efficient, scalable, and highly-available services while embracing the likelihood of failure. This absolutely requires developers to write code differently. In this technology-agnostic talk, Jeff walks through many concepts, requirements, and trade-offs required when building distributed cloud apps. We'll also go through the pros and cons of a microservices architecture, service communication techniques, and storage service concepts.
Speakers
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Jeffrey Richter

Software Architect, Microsoft Azure
Jeffrey Richter is an Azure Software Architect and authored several best-selling Windows & .NET programming books as well as many MSDN magazine feature articles and columns. He is also a co-founder of Wintellect, a software consulting and training company where he has authored... Read More →

Keynote Jeffrey Richter Architecting Distributed Cloud Apps pptx
Wednesday November 14, 2018 5:20pm - 6:20pm EET
1. Alfa
  Session

6:20pm EET

After conference discussions and beer time
Wednesday November 14, 2018 6:20pm - 7:30pm EET
1. Alfa
  Party
 
Thursday, November 15
 

7:45am EET

Ieva - Office Yoga
Doing yoga in the office can be fun, innovative and relaxing with many long term benefits. Prolonged work on the computer strains the neck, shoulder and back muscles, which leads to tension and stiffness. Unless attended to properly, it could impact your ability to function effectively at the workplace, affecting your overall quality of life. Office yoga comprises of a sequence of simple exercises you can perform quite unobtrusively at your desk, at any time of the day.
Making corporate yoga exercises a part of your routine can work wonders as they wipe away body pain, fatigue and tension and increase overall muscle strength and flexibility, keeping you fresh and revitalized through the day. The exercises don’t demand much time, and can be done in spurts throughout the day, sparing you from unnecessary discomfort in the long run.
Speakers
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Ieva

Yoga trainer, Sri Sri yoga center

Thursday November 15, 2018 7:45am - 8:30am EET
1. Alfa
  Free time

9:00am EET

[SLIDES]Keynote: Lynn Langit @lynnlangit - Programming...probably
Like you, I code everyday. What I code and how I code varies widely. A look into my world of coding - machine learning, cloud, new tools/languages, bioinformaticians, kids and teaching tech around the world. 
Speakers
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Lynn Langit

BigData and Cloud Architect, Lynn Langit Consulting
Cloud Architect-- 12 years as a Big Data and Cloud architect, analyst, speaker, author and trainer-- Lead Architect for AWS,GCP IoT and Bioinformatics Data Pipeline Optimization projects-- Community technical education partner awards from AWS, Google and MicrosoftK-12 Education Non-Profit... Read More →

Keynote Lynn Langit @lynnlangit Programming...probably pdf
Thursday November 15, 2018 9:00am - 10:00am EET
1. Alfa
  Session

10:00am EET

Coffee/tea break
Thursday November 15, 2018 10:00am - 10:20am EET
1. Alfa
  Free time

10:20am EET

Vadim Nareiko - Meaning of Decentralization
Visionaire speech on decentralization in general, real cases in business and technological spheres, unexpected comparisons and strong statements about Blockchain by Vadim Nareyko, Managing Partner at EnCata Soft
Speakers
VN

Vadim Nareiko

CEO, Encata
CEO at EnCata Soft, Partner at EnCata and Founder of Management Masters School.Prior to EnCata, he was Head of R&D departments in a plenty of software companies. Now Vadim is a leading expert in Blockchain and AI, sphere, sharing his great experience at conferences and advising exclusive... Read More →

Thursday November 15, 2018 10:20am - 11:10am EET
6. Theta
  Blockchain

10:20am EET

Itamar Syn-Hershko @synhershko - SQL on BigData with AWS Kinesis, Presto and Elastic
That thing that happens when your company is scaling so fast you have to replace your infrastructure within weeks or the whole thing crashes. This is what happened to our customer, and this is the story of how we replaced good-ol' SQL with streams and batch processing technologies on AWS.
Using Terraform, Packer, Elasticsearch, AWS Kinesis, Lambda and EMR we were able to provide a truly scalable solution in a matter of weeks, without hurting production and while dealing with a huge scale.
In this talk we will quickly go through the design phase, the various stake holders and how we improved their usage of the system, and introduce the tools that helped us make this happen.
Speakers
avatar for Itamar Syn-Hershko

Itamar Syn-Hershko

Founder & CTO, BigData Boutique
I'm a search technologies, distributed systems and architecture expert. Over the years I built and maintained several big mission-critical systems on both Windows and Linux, and gained a lot of experience I now use to perfect systems built to deal with scale.

Thursday November 15, 2018 10:20am - 11:10am EET
4. Lambda
  Session

10:20am EET

[SLIDES]Eleanor McHugh @feyeleanor - Identity & trust in monitored spaces
We live in a world of poorly protected persistent data silos, the digital equivalent of a rusty tin box tied up with string and buried in a somewhat disheveled flowerbed. The owners of these silos hoard a bewildering array of personal data on everyone who interacts with them on the off chance that some of this might be useful to them in the future or have concrete resale value. A vast industry exists to help secure these silos once they exist, but rarely does anyone asks the key existential question: do we need all that data in the first place? 
In most cases the answer is no, and by collecting and storing this personal data we're endangering both our systems and the people who use them.
Across the developed world, the outcry over high-profile data breaches has forced legislators to take action, introducing strict new regulations on how personal data can be stored and the rights of individuals both to control their data and to be forgotten. So how as IT professionals can we deal with this new reality? And what are the implications as the IoT expands the scope of personal data and new analytic tools make it increasingly transparent? 
Join Eleanor to explore the relationship between privacy and identity, the slippery nature of consent, and how we can prove after the event that our applications acted correctly. Can we really design all this into our processing systems from their very inception? And if so, how?

Speakers
avatar for Eleanor McHugh

Eleanor McHugh

The Author of a Go Developer's Notebook, Games With Brains
London-based hacker Ellie is the sometime writer of A Go Developer's Notebook. During the course of her career she's worked on mission critical systems ranging from avionics to banking security and digital trust arbitration.Ellie is co-founder of Innovative Identity Solutions, a startup... Read More →

Eleanor McHugh @feyeleanor Identity & trust in monitored spaces pdf
Thursday November 15, 2018 10:20am - 11:10am EET
3. Garage
  Session

10:20am EET

[SLIDES]Jonathan Mills @jonathanfmills - Building Progressive Web Apps with React
Progressive web apps are a happy middle ground between a responsive web app and a native app. They are lightweight apps designed to conform to any device, work offline, and when appropriate, feel like a native app. But all this is made possible with JavaScript frameworks you already know. Come learn how to use your existing React knowledge to build the next generation of web applications.
Speakers
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JONATHAN MILLS

Technology Advisor, EpiqGlobal
Jonathan is a Pluralsight Author, Technology Advisor, and Business Leader. As a member of the Chief Digital Advisory team at World Wide Technology, Jonathan is able to leverage his unique experiences and skills to drive digital transformation for his clients.As a dedicated developer... Read More →

Jonathan Mills @jonathanfmills Building Progressive Web Apps with React pdf
Thursday November 15, 2018 10:20am - 11:10am EET
2. Beta
  Session

10:20am EET

[SLIDES]Pedro Felix @pmhsfelix - Using Kotlin Coroutines for Asynchronous and Concurrent Programming
Asynchronous and concurrent programming play a very important role in the current world of Web APIs and microservices, where a significant part of our code is about orchestrating interactions with external systems.
Using traditional synchronous models, where threads are blocked while waiting for external responses, is not suitable for platforms where threads are costly, such as .NET or the JVM, or where there are special threads that can't be blocked, such as on Javascript or Android applications.

There are various programming models to handle asynchronicity, ranging from simple callbacks to reactive streams as a way to handle asynchronous sequences.
Among these, the concept of Future has seen broad adoption in multiple platforms (e.g. Promises/thenables in javascript, CompletableFuture in Java 8, Task in .NET), including language support via the async-await constructs, which are now available in languages such as C#, Javascript, and Python.
However, instead of also adding explicit async-await support in the Kotlin language, their designers decided to go another route and address these problems with the different and more generic concept of coroutines.

This session presents Kotlin coroutines, as implemented via suspending functions, and their use to write asynchronous and concurrent programs.
Starting from the ground-up, we show how suspending functions allows us to turn callbacks into suspension points that don't break the apparent control flow.
From then we move into creating and starting coroutines as instances of these suspending functions, taking a look at the underlying state machine and continuation interfaces.
With this knowledge, we show how the async-await construct can be implemented as library functions without needing explicit language support.
We also show how to achieve interoperability with other JVM asynchronous constructs, converting between them and coroutines.
The relation between coroutines and threads is also illustrated, with emphasis on thread scheduling (e.g. ensuring the coroutine always run in the Android UI thread) and context propagation.

With the recent release of Kotlin 1.3, coroutines graduated to a stable feature, becoming an essential language mechanism to write asynchronous code on the Kotlin language.
Speakers
avatar for Pedro Felix

Pedro Felix

Software Engineer and Professor, Lisbon Polytechnical Institute
Pedro Félix is a software engineer working in sunny Lisbon, where he deploys both code and knowledge.He's also a professor at the Lisbon Polytechnical Institute, where he teaches Web Application Development and Concurrent Programming courses.Pedro started his professional career... Read More →

Thursday November 15, 2018 10:20am - 11:10am EET
5. Zeta
  Session

10:20am EET

[SLIDES]Seth Vargo @sethvargo - So you wanna do security with microservices, eh?
Equifax, Yahoo, the NSA, IHG, Hyatt, Uber, and eBay are just a few of the over 100 companies that reported security and data privacy breaches in 2017. For many organizations, the perimeter firewall has been the only required security, but with the move to cloud, no longer can users rely on a firewall as the only means of defense. Instead, we need to adopt defense in depth and rethink the way we do security in microservices. Just like DevOps, this is a collaborative process that requires changes throughout the stack from developers, operators, security professionals, and executives.
Hackers are getting more sophisticated in their attacks. As a result, we need a strong recipe to reduce the threat of intrusion, a mechanism for detecting security breaches and anomalies, and a process for quickly responding to security incidents (“break glass”).
Seth Vargo outlines the key principles for securing microservices and distributed systems in the modern world, where applications run in cloud or hybrid cloud infrastructure. You’ll learn the challenges associated with microservices and the principles of secure applications (think 12-factor apps, but for security); you’ll also discover how to implement time-based, limited-access controls and capture security practices and policy as code. 
Speakers
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Seth Vargo

Engineer, Google
Seth Vargo is an engineer at Google Cloud. Previously he worked at HashiCorp, Chef Software, CustomInk, and some Pittsburgh-based startups. He is the author of Learning Chef and is passionate about reducing inequality in technology. When he is not writing, working on open source... Read More →

Seth Vargo @sethvargo So you wanna do security with microservices, eh pdf
Thursday November 15, 2018 10:20am - 11:10am EET
1. Alfa
  Session

11:30am EET

Konstantin Zhidanov - Blockchain Protocols
 -which blockchain protocols already exist 
- which problems the technology fronted last two years
- examples of protocols trying to resolve the problems 
- opensource protocols — what's the role of developers community in building blockchain ecosystem
Speakers
AB

Alexey Bashlykov

CTO, Zerion
He is CTO of one of the best blockchain development companies based in Russia, this company provided development services for the most well-known ICO projects in the region last year (Humaniq, Waves, TokenFund), they take part in different events related to blockchain regularly and... Read More →
JS

Jonas Simanavicious

CTO, NOIA Network
Jonas is currently the CTO of NOIA Network, Decentralised Content Delivery Network. Jonas previously founded another startup Clouder and worked in Investment Banking Industry as Applications Developer for J.P. Morgan and Royal Bank of Scotland.
KZ

Konstantin Zhidanov

TechLead, Enecuum
Konstantin gives lectures at State University of Aerospace Instrumentation. 6 years experience of academic research. Strong background in algorithms and cryptography.
JS

Jaro Šatkevic

Blockvis, Jaro
Jaro is co-founder of blockchain consulting company Blockvis, creator of JaroCoin, ex Uber Engineer and president of "OpenSource for Lithuania".

Thursday November 15, 2018 11:30am - 12:20pm EET
6. Theta
  Blockchain

11:30am EET

[SLIDES]Daniel Molnar @soobrosa - The Data Janitor Returns
This talk is for the underdog. If you're trying to solve data related problems with no or limited resources, be them time, money or skills don't go no further. This talk is opinionated and updated to GDPR, deep learning and all the hype .
Speakers
avatar for Daniel Molnar

Daniel Molnar

Data Engineer, Oberlo
The Data Janitor – data nerd and startup specialist. 19 years XP in startups, 9 in data. Experienced co-founder, built and hired teams up to 30 persons. Proven build-to-market capabilities. Utilizing data for successful products – CS + data + product background under one hat (Zalando... Read More →

Daniel Molnar @soobrosa The Data Janitor Returns pdf
Thursday November 15, 2018 11:30am - 12:20pm EET
3. Garage
  Session

11:30am EET

[SLIDES]Milda Glebauskiatė @mildagle - Writing tests when the code is already there: Golden Master technique
Inheriting someone else’s code is scary. It might be ugly, unreadable and the intentions are not always clear. Especially if there are no tests. How to deal with it? Characterization tests come to the rescue.
There is no doubt, that test coverage brings safety when refactoring or adding new features to code. However, legacy code tend to be untestable and often we’re stuck in a vicious circle were to test, we must refactor, and to refactor, we have to write tests. The purpose of characterization test known as Golden Master is to minimize the refactoring and maximize the safety in these situations.
In this session we will learn when and how to apply Golden Master and try to implement it ourselves.
Speakers
avatar for Milda Glebauskaitė

Milda Glebauskaitė

Server developer, WIX.COM
Milda started her career with Python, working in couple Vilnius-based startups, but quickly moved to Scala and NodeJS.  Currently working in Wix.com - company that creates a leading web development platform. She is interested in quality code, test-driven development, and coding... Read More →

Milda Glebauskiatė @mildagle Writing tests when the code is already there Golden Master technique pdf
Thursday November 15, 2018 11:30am - 12:20pm EET
5. Zeta
  Session

11:30am EET

[SLIDES]Morten Arngren - Cross-Device Tracking Algorithm
Cross-Device tracking is about connecting cookies across devices (eg. mobile phones, laptops) to form an extended profile per user. This can be used to provide a more personalized advertisement experience across devices. In this talk you will be taken down the rabbit hole of how Adform’s Cross-Device algorithm was designed. It is both high-level with some depth into the core algorithm with some final results. It covers how the algorithm was designed and not so much the implementation in production.
Speakers
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Morten Arngren

Lead Data Scientist, Adform
Morten is a Lead Data Scientist of the Tactical Research team in Adform in Copenhagen. He and his team conduct practical research in the world of Adtech. This includes developing Cross-Device algorithms, Bayesian Bandits, Recommendation systems and Deep Learning.Prior to Adform Morten... Read More →

Morten Arngren Cross Device Tracking Algorithm pdf
Thursday November 15, 2018 11:30am - 12:20pm EET
2. Beta
  Session

11:30am EET

[SLIDES]Nir Dobovizki @NirDobovizki - Smart home from scratch - a little C#, a little C++ and a whole lot of cheap Chinese electronics
The story of my smart home system, all the way from the original idea to today, everything from designing the system, getting the hardware, dealing with the home existing electrical system and more
Speakers
avatar for Nir Dobovizki

Nir Dobovizki

Senior consultant and software architect, CodeValue
Nir Dobovizki is a software architect and a consultant at CodeValue, Nir has been developing software professionally for over two decades and recently started building all sort of robots, both professionally and at home, we can't be sure but we suspect those robots are a part of his... Read More →

Nir Dobovizki @NirDobovizki Smart home from scratch a little C#, a little C++ and a whole lot of cheap Chinese electronics.p pdf
Thursday November 15, 2018 11:30am - 12:20pm EET
4. Lambda
  Session

11:30am EET

[SLIDES]Randy Shoup @randyshoup - Scaling Your Architecture with Events and Services
This session is a deep dive into the modern best practices around asynchronous decoupling, resilience, and scalability that allow us to implement a large-scale software system from the building blocks of events and services, based on the speaker's experiences implementing such systems at Google, eBay, and other high-performing technology organizations.
We will outline the various options for handling event delivery and event ordering in a distributed system. We will cover data and persistence in an event-driven architecture. Finally, we will describe how to combine events, services, and so-called "serverless" functions into a powerful overall architecture.
You will leave with practical suggestions to help you accelerate your development velocity and drive business results.
Speakers
avatar for Randy Shoup

Randy Shoup

VP Engineering, WeWork
Randy has spent more than two decades building distributed systems and high performing teams, and has worked as a senior technology leader at eBay, Google, and Stitch Fix. He coaches CTOs, advises companies, and generally makes a nuisance of himself wherever possible. He is currently... Read More →

Randy Shoup @randyshoup Scaling Your Architecture with Events and Services pdf
Thursday November 15, 2018 11:30am - 12:20pm EET
1. Alfa
  Session

12:20pm EET

Lunch
Thursday November 15, 2018 12:20pm - 1:20pm EET
1. Alfa
  Free time

1:20pm EET

Aleksei Nikiforov & Augustas Alesiunas - Blockchain Usage in Real Business
- the current state of market
- issues with mass adoption and implementation of blockchain in real world businesses 
- examples from specific domains (insurance, agrotech, food industry, gaming)
Speakers
AA

Augustas Alesiunas

BIR
Augustas Alesiunas was first in Lithuania, who managed to attract VC financing. Starting from 2010, investments in his managed companies has grown to more than 10 mln Euros. He has successfully launched FoodSniffer, world's first mobile device, which measures food quality and indicates... Read More →
AN

Aleksei Nikiforov

Insurance
Alexei spent 10+ years in Eastern European IT industry working at the intersection technology, business and strategy. Working with large regional system integration companies, Alexei was involved in extensive enterprise IT projects predominantly in Telco / Media domain. Later on... Read More →

Thursday November 15, 2018 1:20pm - 2:10pm EET
6. Theta
  Blockchain

1:20pm EET

[SLIDES]Adam Ralph @adamralph - Finding your service boundaries - a practical guide
We know it's useful to split up complex systems. We've seen the benefits of modular deployment of microservices. Dealing with only one piece of code at a time eases our cognitive load. But how do we know where to draw the service boundaries? In complex business domains, it's often difficult to know where to start. When we get our boundaries wrong, the clocks starts ticking. Before long, we hear ourselves say "it would be easier to re-write it".

Join Adam for practical advice on discovering the hidden boundaries in your systems. Help tease out the natural separation of concerns in a sample business domain. During 20 years of developing complex systems, Adam has had plenty of time to get things wrong. Learn to avoid the common pitfalls that can lead us down the path to "the big re-write".
Speakers
avatar for Adam Ralph

Adam Ralph

Distributed systems guy, Particular Software
Adam is a distributed systems enthusiast and digital nomad. He works for Particular Software, the makers of NServiceBus. Adam has designed and maintained complex software systems at several companies in the finance industry. He's seen both the good and the bad that can come from applying... Read More →

Adam Ralph @adamralph Finding your service boundaries a practical guide pptx
Thursday November 15, 2018 1:20pm - 2:10pm EET
3. Garage
  Session

1:20pm EET

[SLIDES]Chris Condron @CLCondron - Troubleshooting, Optimizing, and Managing Message Driven and Event Sourced Systems
In this talk we will look at how to leverage the messaging infrastructure itself to find and identify problems in message driven systems. We will look at what categories of problems can occur and what their symptoms are. Then move on to diagnosing the source of the problem and the taking corrective actions. We will also look at how to use these same tools to implement dynamic resource management. Finally we will wrap up with some thought on how to use tsi information in designing robust high performance systems.
Speakers
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CHRIS CONDRON

Chief Technology Officer, Eventstore
Asset Management at Linedata Chris is a software engineer and architect who's been building message driven and event sourced systems for 20 years and is currently working at Linedata. He has worked in the telecom, finance, and biomedical industries delivering, supporting, and transforming... Read More →

Chris Condron @CLCondron Troubleshooting, Optimizing, and Managing Message Driven and Event Sourced Systems pptx
Thursday November 15, 2018 1:20pm - 2:10pm EET
1. Alfa
  Session

1:20pm EET

[SLIDES]Christian Zacharias @pulni - What it takes to become a great developer!
Over the last years in my job as CTO for various companies I talked and met a lot of developers; often these developers were good ones but only a few of them were actually really great.
My talk will explain that becoming a great developer is possible for everyone by learning some specific skills and behaviors. You will see that being a great developer has nothing to do with expertise or technology (language, framework, stack).
Speakers
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Christian Zacharias

CTO, Oberlo
Christian started his career as a developer working for Spreadshirt a t-shirt mass-customization startup. This was also the place where he fell in love with t-shirts. At the moment Christian has a collection of over 100 different t-shirts. After some time as freelance consultants... Read More →

Christian Zacharias @pulni What it takes to become a great developer! pdf
Thursday November 15, 2018 1:20pm - 2:10pm EET
2. Beta
  Session

1:20pm EET

[SLIDES]Lukas Vileikis @en0xide - Lessons from 4 Billion breached records
Websites are hacked daily and their data is stolen by hackers. How, why is it done and what can we learn from it?
Speakers
avatar for Lukas Vileikis

Lukas Vileikis

Marketing Evangelist, Severalnines
Lukas is an ethical hacker, a MySQL DBA and a frequent conference speaker. Since 2014 Lukas has found and responsibly disclosed security flaws in some of the most visited websites in Lithuania and abroad including advertising, gift-buying, gaming, hosting websites as well as some... Read More →

Lukas Vileikis @en0xide Lessons from 4 Billion breached records pptx
Thursday November 15, 2018 1:20pm - 2:10pm EET
5. Zeta
  Session

1:20pm EET

[SLIDES]Martin Hinshelwood @MrHinsh - Agile Scaling Unicorns and how to tame them
Many organisations are seeking that unicorn of process that will magically transform their organisation. They require that this agile unicorn be documented, scalable, and tell them exactly what to do, and when. We will dive into the fallacy of the scaled blueprint and demonstrate why it does not work. Then we will look at ways that we can use Scrum to Scale Scrum with the Nexus Framework. Designed by Ken Schwaber to be the scaffolding around which you can build your own unique process it enshrines only the minimum required to implement an Empirical Process Control System at scale for an organisation.

Just as with Scrum, the Nexus Framework is more like a rule book than a strategy guide. It makes sure that we are at least all playing the same game, working toward the same goal. But its not enough to Win, we need additional Practices or Strategies to help us. We will dive into some of those additional practices and how they might help you succeed
Speakers
avatar for Martin Hinshelwood

Martin Hinshelwood

DevOps & Agile Consultant, naked Agility Limited
Martin Hinshelwood believes that every company deserves high-quality software delivered on a regular cadence that meets its customer’s needs. His goal is to help you reduce your cycle time, improve your time to market, and minimise any organisational friction in achieving your goals... Read More →

Martin Hinshelwood @MrHinsh Agile Scaling Unicorns and how to tame them pdf
Thursday November 15, 2018 1:20pm - 2:10pm EET
4. Lambda
  Session

2:30pm EET

[SLIDES]Anastasija Plotnikova - Current legal trends in blockchain. Where are they headed?
- state of legislations on different countries
- perspectives of the market from the lega point of view
- setting up the crypto company -- first challenges and how to avoid them
Speakers
DC

Dmitrii Chirkin

Managing Partner of White Stone, LLC, Dmitrii Chirkin (Dome)
Dmitry Chirkin is a cross-border projects lawyer with more than 14 years of experience in both start-up support (VC, ICO) and traditional spheres of legal practice (finance and M&A) working for major UK and US international law firms (PwC Legal, Chadbourne&Parke, Dentons) and for... Read More →

Anastasija Plotnikova Current legal trends in blockchain pptx
Thursday November 15, 2018 2:30pm - 3:20pm EET
6. Theta
  Blockchain

2:30pm EET

Jessica Ellis @jellis_tkp - The Skills Gap: How to Inspire our Kids to study Computer Science
The last few years several countries have passed new legislation mandating computational thinking be added to students’ core curriculum, but what are the best practices to use when teaching kids to code? By using a number of different delivery platforms and modern development practices including pair programming, mob programming and other techniques designed to teach computer programming in a social and collaborative environment, pioneering teachers and inspired curriculum are changing the demographics and the numbers of students pursuing STEM-related higher educations. We’ll explore what programmers and other tech leaders can do to support and change the educational opportunities in their own communities.
Speakers
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Jessica Ellis

Director, TKP Labs
Jessica is a Director at TKP Labs, a non-profit that creates computational curriculum and events for teens. She is also a director for the urban tech farm at the Boys and Girls Clubs of San Dieguito, the largest youth organization in the US. She and the TKP Labs team have trained... Read More →

Thursday November 15, 2018 2:30pm - 3:20pm EET
1. Alfa
  Session

2:30pm EET

[SLIDES]Jeff Strauss @jeffstrauss - Multithreaded JavaScript—Web Workers, Shared Memory, and Atomics
For better and for worse, JavaScript is single-threaded by design. For over 50 years Moore’s Law has described persistent exponential growth in computational power. But recently, physical limitations have slowed the trend, with advancement now coming more frequently through the use of multiple CPUs and cores. This is fine for languages featuring threads and task-based architectures. But what about JavaScript?

Thankfully, the JavaScript community has introduced new paradigms for handling parallelism over the web. The Web Worker allows long-running code to execute in the background without blocking the UI. Starting with ES2017, Shared Memory Buffers and Atomic operations allow easier passing of data and messages among these worker processes and your main application. Learn to leverage these exciting new features to improve the performance and responsiveness of your web application today!
Speakers
avatar for JEFF STRAUSS

JEFF STRAUSS

Technical Architect & an Attorney, World Wide Technolog
Jeff is a software developer, an entrepreneur, and an attorney. As a consultant at WWT Asynchrony Labs, with unique experiences that combine technology and law, he maintains a passion for solving problems with inspired solutions, improving life through technology.A dedicated member... Read More →

STRAUSS Multithreaded JavaScript (Build Stuff 2018) key
Thursday November 15, 2018 2:30pm - 3:20pm EET
2. Beta
  Session

2:30pm EET

[SLIDES]Jurij Nesvat - The Cornerstones of the Accessibility Awareness
The EU directive 2014/24/EU, USA ADA or the Rehabilitation act of 1973 are changing the game - more and more products, web sites and mobile apps have to be accessible. Let's talk about important things that should be done in the organization to succeed in meeting the new requirements.
Speakers
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Jurij Nesvat

Team Lead and Test Engineer, Devbridge Group
Jurij started his testing career more than 10 years ago. Having a cryptography mathematician degree he worked with ATM’s security issues, later switching to testing; beginning with manual and continuing to grow the expertise in test management, test automation and performance, which... Read More →

Jurij Nesvat The Cornerstones of the Accessibility Awareness pdf
Thursday November 15, 2018 2:30pm - 3:20pm EET
5. Zeta
  Session

2:30pm EET

[SLIDES]Yan Cui @theburningmonk -How to build observability into a serverless application
Serverless introduces a number of challenges to existing tools for observability, we need to adapt our practices to fit this new paradigm. In this talk we will see how you can implement log aggregation, tracing and correlation IDs for a serverless application.
Speakers
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Yan Cui

Principal Engineer, DAZN
Yan is an experienced engineer who has run production workload at scale in AWS for nearly 10 years. He has been an architect and principal engineer with a variety of industries ranging from banking, e-commerce, sports streaming to mobile gaming. He has worked extensively with AWS... Read More →

Yan Cui @theburningmonk How to build observability into a serverless application pdf
Thursday November 15, 2018 2:30pm - 3:20pm EET
3. Garage
  Session

2:30pm EET

[SLIDES]Yves Lorphelin @ylorph - Tamed Eventual Consistency
"In Event Sourced systems, Latency is feared by the Developpers, and Eventual Consistency is uncacceptable for Business"

Most of us have been taught that users want to see the result of actions in our systems immediately.
And that therefore a typical transactional system is a must.

And so, we stopped thinking about time.
And so, we stopped asking:
* How long are you willing to wait
* Does it make sense to show an immediate response

Event sourcing, and the associated use of CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) has put time back as a first class citizen in our systems.
And made the need of discussions about latency explicit.

Latency and Eventual consistency is not a fatality.
It is a matter of modelling.
Modelling event streams.

This talk will explore an eventsourced subsystem, build for a government HR agency.
The steps used to tame eventual consistency inside it.
As well as those taken for integrating it into the whole Legacy system.
Yves Lorphelin @ylorph Tamed Eventual Consistency pdf
Thursday November 15, 2018 2:30pm - 3:20pm EET
4. Lambda
  Session

3:20pm EET

Coffee/tea break
Thursday November 15, 2018 3:20pm - 3:40pm EET
1. Alfa
  Free time

3:40pm EET

[SLIDES]Alexey Bashlykov - From IT to Blockchain
- personal experience
- open source resources to learn and to start with
- developers communities 
- projects to contribute
Speakers
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Alexey Bashlykov

CTO, Zerion
He is CTO of one of the best blockchain development companies based in Russia, this company provided development services for the most well-known ICO projects in the region last year (Humaniq, Waves, TokenFund), they take part in different events related to blockchain regularly and... Read More →

Alexey Bashlykov From IT to Blockchain pdf
Thursday November 15, 2018 3:40pm - 4:30pm EET
6. Theta
  Blockchain

3:40pm EET

Deimantas Steponavicius & Mazvydas Vrubliauskas - Creating maintainable code in a cross border team
This is the story of our endless journey to achieve maintainable code, while working in a startup-like organization with a strong focus on culture.
This culture encourages and enables us to be more agile in creating production code and to react faster to uncertain business needs.
Naturally, this implies the need for highly maintainable code, which is a challenge in itself, especially in a rapid growth phase of our investment product – june.dk.
In addition, to make things more complicated… we are a cross-border team scattered between two countries, Denmark and Lithuania.
One could say that the last part is the most peculiar, as cultural and multi-site differences impact every minute of our job way more than anybody expected in the beginning.
So this is the story of what we’ve learned while trying to tackle the challenges of becoming a mature and efficient team while having fun along the way.
Thursday November 15, 2018 3:40pm - 4:30pm EET
4. Lambda
  Session

3:40pm EET

[SLIDES]Alexey Zimarev @Zimareff - Simplicity vs Simplification
You often hear that DDD is hard. People are trying and failing, complaining over increased complexity, which gets out of control. In fact, despite many complains that accidental complexity is overcoming the domain complexity, often this is not the case. Developers tend to over-simplify business problems and, in turn, play around with technical complexity instead. The reason for this is that many business problems are considered as "easy" or "solved" when it is actually not the case. According to past experiences, making decisions before engaging the decision-making part of the brain too often lead to underestimating of the domain complexity, poor user experience and low overall customer satisfaction.
During this talk, Alexey will show several cases like this and will try to convince you to think deeper about business problems, even if they seem to be simple at first glance.
Alexey Zimarev @Zimareff Simplicity vs Simplification pdf
Thursday November 15, 2018 3:40pm - 4:30pm EET
5. Zeta
  Session

3:40pm EET

[SLIDES]Dylan Beattie @dylanbeattie - Apps, Algorithms and Abstractions: Decoding our Digital World
It's a familiar scenario. You’re on a train, your phone goes ‘ping’, you take it out of your pocket and hey - someone sent you a message! It’s a funny cat picture. You laugh, you reply ‘LOL’, you put your phone back in your pocket… but have you ever stopped to think about what’s actually involved in making that happen? Inside even the most basic smartphone there are literally hundreds of innovations, algorithms and inventions - but how do they really work? How were they developed? And what’s the next generation of algorithms and applications going to look like?

In this talk, we’ll take a deep dive into the technology behind those everyday experiences, and demystify the algorithms and abstractions that make our digital world go round. We’ll look at everything from network addressing algorithms, frequency-hopping cellular data networks and shortest path optimisation, to wavelet compression, fingerprint recognition and media encoding schemes. Whether you’re a programmer, a product owner or just somebody who loves using the latest tech, after watching this talk you’ll never look at your phone quite the same way again.
Speakers
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DYLAN BEATTIE

Chief Everything Officer, Ursatile Ltd
Dylan Beattie is an independent consultant who has been building data-driven web applications since the 1990s. He’s managed teams, taught workshops, and worked on everything from tiny standalone websites to complex distributed systems. He’s a Microsoft MVP, and he regularly speaks... Read More →

Dylan Beattie @dylanbeattie Apps, Algorithms and Abstractions Decoding our Digital World pdf
Thursday November 15, 2018 3:40pm - 4:30pm EET
1. Alfa
  Session

3:40pm EET

[SLIDES]Ian Cooper @ICooper - The Clean Architecture
What is the clean architecture and how you would build one in .NET? Recently Bob Martin has categorized a set of architectures, including hexagonal architecture, onion architecture and screaming architecture as 'the clean architecture' - a layered architecture of concentric circles with a strong emphasis on separation of concerns. This architecture has become popular because of its amenability to modification as an evolutionary architecture and its support for practices such as TDD. In this presentation we will discuss the clean architecture and its benefits. More than that, in the bulk of the presentation, we will show you how to implement a clean architecture in .NET. From first steps to working code, we will show you the moves required to embrace this approach, and introduce you to some of the OSS libraries that can help you get there. All examples will be in .NET Core 
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IAN COOPER

Polyglot Coding Architect, JustEat
Polyglot Coding Architect in London, founder of #ldnug, speaker, tabletop gamer, geek. Tattooed, pierced, and bearded. The 'guv' on @BrighterCommand

Ian Cooper @ICooper The Clean Architecture pptx
Thursday November 15, 2018 3:40pm - 4:30pm EET
3. Garage
  Session

3:40pm EET

[SLIDES]Osvaldas Grigas @ogrigas ‏- Good Enough Tests
Not all integration tests are a scam, not all mocking is evil, and not all unit tests are useful. Trade-offs depend on architectural choices, the use of databases and frameworks. I will walk through the evolution of my own style of writing tests, focusing on their value, cost and agility. Finally, I’ll share my current preferred style of testing microservices.
Speakers
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Osvaldas Grigas

TDD advocate, Platform Lunar
CodeRetreat workshop facilitator, meetup organizer, TDD advocate. Has spent most of the last 15 years developing backend and full-stack solutions for the enterprise.

Osvaldas Grigas @ogrigas ‏ Good Enough Tests pdf
Thursday November 15, 2018 3:40pm - 4:30pm EET
2. Beta
  Session

4:50pm EET

[SLIDES]Keynote: Russ Miles @russmiles - How to Be Wrong
Being wrong is often seen as the WORSE THING THAT CAN HAPPEN(tm), especially when you’re build business critical applications and services. But the increased velocity of modern software development, plus the increased need for our systems to be resilient, reliable, and RIGHT has increased the pressure on developers exponentially. Never before have software owners had such an opportunity, or the power, to BE WRONG!

We need to get better at being wrong, and that’s what this keynote is all about.

In this keynote talk Russ Miles, CEO of ChaosIQ,, will share the tools and techniques he uses to turn inevitably BEING WRONG, into BEING SUCCESSFUL at BEING WRONG. BEING WRONG can be turned to our advantage, and in this talk Russ will share stories of how this has happened, and also the challenges to look out for.

The myth of always being right when you create and operate software is over! You’re going to BE WRONG most of the time’s time to get better at BEING WRONG, learning to turn “accidents” such as outages into opportunities…

Speakers
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RUSS MILES

EXPERT IN CHAOS ENGINEERING
"Russ Miles is CEO of ChaosIQ.io where he and his team build commercial and open source (ChaosToolkit.org) products and provide services to companies applying Chaos Engineering to build confidence in the resilience of their production systems." Russ’ experience covers almost every... Read More →

Keynote Russ Miles @russmiles How to Be Wrong pdf
Thursday November 15, 2018 4:50pm - 5:50pm EET
1. Alfa
  Session

8:00pm EET

Magic Party: It's not magic, it's just code.
THE PARTY WILL TAKE PLACE AT ANOTHER VENUE. Let's meet at Legendos Klubas: Kalvarijų g. 85, Vilnius 08219
Beers & snacks are on us!

PROGRAM:
8.00 p.m.  Registration to the Party
8.15 p.m. The Rock star Dylan Beattie
8.45 p.m. Magic Show by Rokas Bernatonis
9.15 p.m. Russ Miles Symphony
9.30 p.m. Wolfsome Show
10.15 p.m. DJ Magic
10.35 p.m. Wolfsome Show
11.20 p.m. DJ Magic

Thursday November 15, 2018 8:00pm - 11:30pm EET
1. Alfa
  Party
 
Friday, November 16
 

10:00am EET

[SLIDES]Keynote: Sam Newman @samnewman - Insecure Transit - Microservice Security
A deep dive into some of the technical challenges and solutions to securing a microservice architecture.
Microservices are great, and they offer us lots of options for how we can build, scale and evolve our applications. On the face of it, they should also help us create much more secure applications - the ability to protect in depth is a key part of protecting systems, and microservices make this much easier. On the other hand, information that used to flow within single processes, now flows over our networks, giving us a real headache. How do we make sure our shiny new microservices architectures aren’t less secure than their monolithic predecessors?
Picking up where my previous presentation on this topic left off, in this talk, I outline some of the key challenges associated with microservice architectures with respect to security, and then looks at approaches to address these issues. From secret stores, time-limited credentials and better backups, to confused deputy problems, JWT tokens and service meshes, this talk looks at the state of the art for building secure microservice architectures.
Speakers
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Sam Newman

Author of Building Microservices, Sam Newman & Associates
Sam Newman is an independent consultant specialising in helping people ship software fast. Sam has worked extensively with the cloud, continuous delivery, and microservices and is especially preoccupied with understanding how to more easily deploy working software into production... Read More →

Keynote Sam Newman @samnewman Insecure Transit Microservice Security pdf
Friday November 16, 2018 10:00am - 11:00am EET
1. Alfa
  Session

11:00am EET

Coffee/tea break
Friday November 16, 2018 11:00am - 11:20am EET
1. Alfa
  Free time

11:20am EET

Dennis Traub @dtraub - Domain Modeling in a Serverless World
Back in the day, when Eric Evans came up with Domain-Driven Design, Microservices were still in the future and nobody had ever heard of "Serverless" or Functions as a Service (FaaS).
Modeling a rich domain has always been hard, and it has become even harder with a modern architecture's share-nothing approach while multiple services and functions still need to operate on common conceptual models.
In this session, Dennis presents a few approaches to model the richness of a business domain without turning your serverless functions into a "Distributed Big Ball of Mud". 
Speakers
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DENNIS TRAUB

CLOUD EXPERT & EVANGELIST, Codecentric AG
With more than 20 years in the industry, Dennis has been building software for many clients, ranging from startups to multinational corporations. As a Fellow at codecentric he helps his clients transforming their business through technology, with an emphasis on digitization and the... Read More →

Friday November 16, 2018 11:20am - 12:10pm EET
2. Beta
  Session

11:20am EET

Heather Downing @quorralyne - The Visible Developer: Why You Shouldn't Blend In
Ever wonder how some technical people are recognized and promoted quicker than others with the same skillset? Yes, there is a formula to make it more likely. We will explore the habits of well known developers outside of their coding chops, to identify what additionally allowed them to become a trusted and known voice in their environment. This approach can be a benefit to you, no matter how junior or senior you are.
Speakers
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HEATHER DOWNING

Developer advocate, OKTA
Heather is a passionate coder and entrepreneur. She has experience working with Fortune 500 companies building enterprise-level voice, mobile and C#/.Net applications. She focuses on external thought leadership, encouraging fellow programmers to present on topics outside of the office... Read More →

Friday November 16, 2018 11:20am - 12:10pm EET
3. Garage
  Session

11:20am EET

[SLIDES]Mikhail Shilkov @MikhailShilkov - All-in on Cloud: How We Moved from Million Euro Worth of Hardware to Azure PaaS
Astrata Europe is tracking telemetry from tens of thousands of vehicles throughout Europe. For many years all the back-end services were hosted on bare-metal self-managed hardware.

By the end of 2017, the decision was made to join the cloud era and move all business-critical workloads to Azure cloud. And on top of that, the applications were modernized to leverage higher level Platform-as-a-Service whenever feasible.

During this session Mikhail will guide you through this migration story from making the decision to lessons learned, looking from developer and operations points of view.
Speakers
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Mikhail Shilkov

Software Developer, Astrata Europe
Mikhail Shilkov is a software engineer, Russian expat living in the Netherlands. During the day, he is a full-stack engineer with .NET / SQL Server / Azure / Typescript stack, developing smart and reliable solutions for transportation and logistics industry. At night, he loves playing... Read More →

Mikhail Shilkov @MikhailShilkov All in on Cloud How We Moved from Million Euro Worth of Hardware to Azure PaaS pptx
Friday November 16, 2018 11:20am - 12:10pm EET
5. Zeta
  Session

11:20am EET

[SLIDES]Rob Ashton @RobAshton - Patterns for building zero-support distributed systems in Erlang
We have all seen the local demos of the "let it fail" philosophy that Erlang espouses, but what happens when you take that and apply it across a complete distributed system in production? What does it look like and how does it change the manner in which you then support it?

For the last several years, I have been working in a very small team, both building and deploying/supporting bespoke products that power upwards of half a million live video events a year, as well as forming the backbone of various television services across the UK. For some of our customers, it has been half a decade since we received a support call and indeed it is a virtual non-happening that anybody has to get out of bed to solve a problem in production. A lot of this results directly from our use of OTP, and there are then wider patterns that have arisen across our codebases and even the manner in which we provide support to our clients.

In this session, we will be using code and examples from real-world projects to demonstrate how we build, deploy, and then support hundreds of services/workloads across both the cloud and our on-premise high density units in production, as well as also covering how our software stack ensures that on a bad day, our services carry on delivering content even when servers are catching fire or somebody has spilled coffee on the datacentre power supply.
Speakers
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ROB ASHTON

Polyglot Software Developer, id3as
Over a decade of building software in a plethora of languages and technologies, leading teams, travelling around and learning. Now found mostly writing Erlang and Purescript, building distributed media delivery systems for a small b2b company in the UK whilst also developing an ecosystem... Read More →

Rob Ashton @RobAshton Patterns for building zero support distributed systems in Erlang pdf
Friday November 16, 2018 11:20am - 12:10pm EET
6. Theta
  Session

11:20am EET

[SLIDES]Sirar Salih @sirarsalih - Two Tales: The time when I flew drones and when I talked to the cookie monster using Node at the Norwegian Parliament
Once upon a time I had the idea of creating a Node server to control a drone through the power of the Internet. Of course, this idea seemed crazy at the time as this was when the Internet of Things was just becoming a new buzzword. Controlling things using the Internet was a new and fascinating thing at the time. This tale (one of two) will look at how I managed to control a drone by creating and using a Node server, to fly a device from any corner of the world. This tale will dissect and investigate the node-server-ar-drone library, created by myself, at NPM.

The second tale, is a rather funny one. It takes place many years after the first tale, in an environment so bureaucratic that it leverages 8 year old technology. This second tale, is about how I sat up a Node server at the Norwegian Parliament so that I could talk to the browser's cookie monster to save and to fetch user data related to GDPR. In other words, this tale is so sensitive that it includes GDPR, the Norwegian Parliament and the all bureaucracy that follows.

Welcome to an adventurous day of tales!
Speakers
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SIRAR SALIH

SOLUTION ARCHITECT, MAKING WAVES
Sirar Salih is a full-stack developer, solution architect and leader of the White Hat hacker hub at Making Waves. He is a very active community organizer, organizing meetups for the Azure User Group Norway and the Norwegian .NET User Group Oslo. Sirar loves sharing knowledge and has... Read More →

Sirar Salih @sirarsalih Two Tales The time when I flew drones and when I talked to the cookie monster using Node at the Norweg pptx
Friday November 16, 2018 11:20am - 12:10pm EET
4. Lambda
  Session

11:20am EET

[SLIDES]Vitaly Friendman @smashingmag - Dirty Little Tricks From The Dark Corners of eCommerce
When designing eCommerce experiences, we tend to prioritize what we want to say rather than how it's actually said. It's not easy because there are literally hundreds of things that can go wrong: from selecting a product, to adding an item to the cart, to getting that final confirmation email, to actually receiving the purchased item. Every step along the way has to be meticulously designed with an eye for error and potential misunderstandings. It affects interaction with filters as much as displaying shipping options or sending a shopping cart abandonment email.

In this talk, Vitaly will be covering a few design patterns to increase conversion by improving clarity and consistency of the eCommerce experience and sparkling a little bit of delight here and there. You’ll walk away with hands-on tips and techniques for crafting better eCommerce experience right away.
Speakers
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Vitaly Friedman

Co-founder & Author of Smashing magazine, SMASHING MAGAZINE
Vitaly Friedman loves beautiful content and does not give up easily. From Minsk in Belarus, he studied computer science and mathematics in Germany, discovered the passage a passion for typography, writing, and design. After working as a freelance designer and developer for 6 years... Read More →

Vitaly Friendman @smashingmag Dirty Little Tricks From The Dark Corners of eCommerce pdf
Friday November 16, 2018 11:20am - 12:10pm EET
1. Alfa
  Session

12:10pm EET

Lunch
Friday November 16, 2018 12:10pm - 1:10pm EET
1. Alfa
  Free time

1:10pm EET

[SLIDES]David Ostrovsky @DavidOstrovsky - Containers in Production: It’s Like Orchestrating Cats
You’ve finally installed Docker and typed ‘docker run hello-world’ into the terminal - congratulations! You have taken the first out of about a thousand steps to having your containerized application run in production. Let’s talk about the other nine hundred and ninety nine.

We need to look at container orchestration: who creates the containers, how many and when, who makes sure they stay up or get upgraded? We need to look at monitoring, which needs to go from looking at easily identifiable machines, to amorphous cloud applications that span multiple machines and keep moving around. We have to have get logging and debug information from our containers. We must consider security and service discovery. The list of buzzwords is long, but we’ll do our best to cover it in this talk. We will look at Docker Swarm, Kubernetes and Amazon Container Service for orchestration and discuss how to monitor, debug and secure containerized applications both on-prem and in the cloud.
Speakers
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DAVID OSTROVSKY

Chief Architect & Author, ProofPoint
When he was 9 years old, little David Ostrovsky found a book in Russian called "Electronic Computational Machines" at the local library and, after reading it cover-to-cover in a single weekend, decided that this was what he was going to do with his life. Three years later he finally... Read More →

David Ostrovsky @DavidOstrovsky Containers in Production It’s Like Orchestrating Cats pptx
Friday November 16, 2018 1:10pm - 2:00pm EET
2. Beta
  Session

1:10pm EET

[SLIDES]Kevlin Henney @KevlinHenney - 1968
It’s half a century since the NATO Software Engineering conference in Garmisch. How are we doing? Are we nearly there yet? Or is there no there there?
The world of software development has changed so much and in so many ways since 1968 that it’s difficult to imagine what we could learn from the past, but it’s learning rather than imagination that’s the constraint. There was no shortage of imagination, insight and inspiration in the 1960s and 1970s, and in many ways the apple of 21st-century software development has fallen disappointingly close to the tree of the past.
So let’s turn back the clock to see what we could have learned from the past, what we can still learn from the past and what the future might hold in store for code and its development.
Speakers
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Kevlin Henney

Thought Provoker
Kevlin is an independent consultant and trainer based in the UK. His development interests are in patterns, programming, practice, and process. He has been a columnist for various magazines and websites, including Better Software, The Register, Java Report and the C/C++ Users Journal... Read More →

Hevlin Henney @kevlinhenney 1968 pdf
Friday November 16, 2018 1:10pm - 2:00pm EET
1. Alfa
  Session

1:10pm EET

Alexey Zimarev @Zimareff & Sergio Silveira @RagingKore - Hands-on event sourcing with .NET
Event sourcing is becoming ever more popular these days. May people heard about it on different conferences but not so many have tried. It seems to be too complex at first. Experts shout - here be dragons, only sue this technique when you have to. In fact, event sourcing can solve many challenges that many business domains have in terms of technical implementation. In DDD we moved towards behaviour-first approach after many years of struggle with domain models being our data models. Event sourcing finally allows us making behaviour visible and persistent. But you need to get some hands-on experience and all those little things that no one tells you about, before getting serious about event sourcing. During this workshop, Alexey and Sergio will gradually bring more clarity to implementation techniques of an event sourced application, touching upon domain analysis, defining events, entities and value objects, persisting events and using projections. You will also learn the basics about distribution, integration and task-based UI. All the code will be in C# and some JavaScript.

Please ensure that you know what Event-Sourcing, since we won't be spending much time on the theory and will jump to writing code as soon as we can.

If you plan to follow the code, please check the requirements here: https://github.com/alexeyzimarev/PrepareForEventSourcingWithCsharp 
Speakers
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Sergio Silveira

Team Lead, ABAX
Sérgio is a passionate and stubborn developer dude, that for the last 17 years or so has been modelling, building and sometimes simply deleting, various types of software.Document and police digital case management, sports statistics, telecommunications, oil & gas safety systems... Read More →
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Alexey Zimarev

Software Architect, Ubiquitous AS
Alexey is a software architect and developer with present focus on domain models, domain-driven design (DDD), SOA and microservices, coaching and mentoring. Alexey is also a contributor to MassTransit open-source messaging framework, maintainer of the RestSharp library and organiser... Read More →

Friday November 16, 2018 1:10pm - 3:10pm EET
4. Lambda
  Workshop

1:10pm EET

[SLIDES]Alexey Bashlykov - Getting started with Solidity
Solidity is the most popular language for writing Ethereum smart-contracts. In the course of the workshop, the audience will be introduced to Truffle -- a development framework that makes working with smart-contracts a whole lot easier. We will discuss the best practices and all together write our first smart-contracts, test them, and deploy to the network.
Speakers
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Alexey Bashlykov

CTO, Zerion
He is CTO of one of the best blockchain development companies based in Russia, this company provided development services for the most well-known ICO projects in the region last year (Humaniq, Waves, TokenFund), they take part in different events related to blockchain regularly and... Read More →

Alexey Bashlykov Getting started with Solidity pdf
Friday November 16, 2018 1:10pm - 3:10pm EET
6. Theta
  Workshop

1:10pm EET

[SLIDES]Heather Shockney @HeatherShockney - Developer's Guide to User Experience and Design
 User experience and design are often hard problems for developers. We focus on code and hopefully someone else will make sure it looks good and users enjoy using it. That’s because user experience requires a different set of tools and thought processes. Sometimes, however, we do not have the luxury of a design team on every project. Join us and add some of those tools to your toolbox so that every product you work on from this point forward has the extra edge. Regardless of if you are building an AR/VR, ML, or Mobile/Web app, this talk will help you to:

* Perform User Research
* Use sketching sessions
* Affinity diagramming
* Design Information Architecture
* Create Valuable Personas
* Create User Journeys and Story Mapping
* Usability Testing
* Define Minimum Marketable Product
Speakers
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Heather Shockney

Software developer, Mined Minds
I have been coding for about three years, I started taking a bootcamp with my daughter. She quit a few weeks in and I never turned back. I am a full stack developer at Mined Minds with a love for front end and design.

Heather Shockney @HeatherShockney Developer's Guide to User Experience and Design pdf
Friday November 16, 2018 1:10pm - 3:10pm EET
3. Garage
  Workshop

1:10pm EET

[SLIDES]Mandi Walls @lnxchk - Making Security and Compliance Easy with InSpec
InSpec is an open source testing framework for infrastructure with a human- and machine-readable language for specifying compliance, security, and policy requirements.
Using a combination of command-line and remote-execution tools, InSpec can help you keep your infrastructure aligned with security and compliance guidelines on an ongoing basis, rather than waiting for and then remediating from arduous annual audits. InSpec’s flexibility makes it a key tool choice for incorporating security into a complete continuous delivery workflow, reducing the risk of new features and releases breaking established host-based security guidelines. This workshop covers the basics of working with InSpec, writing tests to reflect your organization’s security guidelines, consuming community security profiles, and managing InSpec as part of a high-velocity workflow.
Speakers
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Mandi

Technical Community Manager, Chef Software
Mandi Walls is Technical Community Manager, EMEA at Chef. For Chef, she helps organizations increase their effectiveness using configuration management and modernizing IT practices. She is a long-time sysadmin focusing on large complex web systems.

Mandi Walls @lnxchk Making Security and Compliance Easy with InSpec pptx
Friday November 16, 2018 1:10pm - 3:10pm EET
5. Zeta
  Workshop

2:20pm EET

[SLIDES]Bill Dinger @adazlian - OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities & ASP.NET
In this talk we'll go over the new 2017 OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities and how they apply to ASP.NET. We'll include a demonstration of each vulnerability, the risk it poses, how to detect the attack, and how to mitigate it. Source code and demo project will be available.
Speakers
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Bill Dinger

Solutions Architect, VML
Over the last 15 years I've worked in enterprise IT, first in customer service, then in infrastructure and now in a more focused .NET development role. During that time the accomplishment I'm most proud of is that despite tens of thousands of customer interactions and phone calls... Read More →

Bill Dinger @adazlian OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities & ASP.NET pdf
Friday November 16, 2018 2:20pm - 3:10pm EET
2. Beta
  Session

2:20pm EET

[SLIDES]Roy Osherove @RoyOsherove - The Enterprise Devops Challenge
DevOps is the implementation of continuous delivery and agile concepts across the organization, focusing on pipelines as the main building blocks for delivery value internally and to the customer.
But getting to that state is complicated because it requires several facets of work: People, process and tools.
In large organizations ,we have the added complexity of :
" Multiple dependencies and sub systems
" Multiple teams, groups, business units with competing interests
" Varying degrees of agility, culture, tools, technologies and processes
" Security, compliance and policy gates

In this talk we will discuss main patterns and anti patterns for adopting and implementing DevOps pipelines throughout the organization.
Speakers
avatar for ROY OSHEROVE

ROY OSHEROVE

Author of "Art of Unit Testing", Blocktrace
Roy Osherove is the author of "Art of Unit Testing" "Elastic Leadership" and the upcoming "Enterprise DevOps" books. He has worked with some of the world's largest companies to help implement continuous delivery at scale.

Roy Osherove @RoyOsherove The Enterprise Devops Challenge pdf
Friday November 16, 2018 2:20pm - 3:10pm EET
1. Alfa
  Session

3:10pm EET

Coffee/tea break
Friday November 16, 2018 3:10pm - 3:30pm EET
1. Alfa
  Free time

3:30pm EET

James Nugent @jen20 - Infrastructure as TypeScript
For almost a decade "Infrastructure as Code" has been a DevOps buzzword - but the myriad tools in share a dirty little secret... there's no actual code! Few people like "programming" YAML or JSON (even the human-friendly variants!), and even fewer like having to reverse-engineer ways to apply known good development practices to tools which resist it at all cost.

So, what if things were different,and programming infrastructure was more like real programming, with real programming languages like TypeScript? What if you defined Lambda functions by actually writing lambdas, created abstractions using complex types, and could take advantage of existing tools for modularity, linting, refactoring and testing?

Enter Pulumi, an open-source deployment engine which enables all these things using TypeScript, Python or Go!

In this talk, we'll look at how you can write TypeScript code using Pulumi to provision traditional cloud infrastructure, manage Kubernetes and build portable "serverless" applications - all with minimal YAML in sight! We'll look at deploying to multiple regions of the same cloud, and how to build abstractions allowing multi-cloud to be a reality.

Speakers
avatar for James Nugent

Friday November 16, 2018 3:30pm - 4:20pm EET
2. Beta
  Session

3:30pm EET

[SLIDES]Irma Spudienė & Augustas Nekrošius - Master Data API story: REST is dead, long live GraphQL?
Master data is critical information for operational and analytical decision-making within a large financial organization. In the case of SEB, Master Data includes customer, products and business arrangements information which is shared internally across our company’s systems yet externally to regulators. As part of transforming our Master Data domain we are re-designing the service interface towards our consumers. One of most popular approaches is to use REST web services for API. But what if we could have a more flexible solution when it comes to the clients’ ability to pick the data they are interested in by not having to build several consumer specific end-points? GraphQL - a very interesting REST alternative - allows the consumer of the API to specify what data it needs and limits the over-fetching or under-serving you can get with REST. During the presentation, we will explain the concepts architects and developers need to understand and talk about challenges you may face when adopting GraphQL. Furthermore, we will provide a demonstration of how REST and GraphQL coexist in our solution. Or maybe we intend to replace REST with GraphQL? Let's discuss!
Speakers
avatar for Augustas Nekrošius

Augustas Nekrošius

Data Engineer, SEB Global Services
Augustas Nekrošius began his career at the University of Vilnius as a physicist and lab engineer. Understanding the importance of the data, he took a challenge to automate the experiments and their analysis for higher productivity and reproducibility. He then further progressed by... Read More →
avatar for Irma Spudienė

Irma Spudienė

IT Solutions Architect, SEB Global Servises
Irma Spudienė is neither evangelist nor a champion – just a regular human being with a passion for deep diving into various IT challenges and finding the best solutions for them. Beginning her career as a Java developer around 10 years ago, now she is IT Solutions Architect. She... Read More →

Irma Spudienė & Augustas Nekrošius Master Data API story REST is dead, long live GraphQL pdf
Friday November 16, 2018 3:30pm - 4:20pm EET
5. Zeta
  Session

3:30pm EET

[SLIDES]Karl-Henrik Nilsson @KHNilsson - LogicApps - unleash your productivity
Pre-written code that, like tiny bricks of lego, can add features to your application or workflow?! Join Karl-Henrik Nilsson and learn how logic apps contribute to everything from keeping inbox zero to features for new apps and how he uses it to get away from helping friends and family!
Speakers
avatar for Karl-Henrik Nilsson

Karl-Henrik Nilsson

Technical Evangelist, Microsoft
Karl-Henrik "KH" Nilsson is a turbulently enthusiastic and unstoppably curious Swedish software developer with a soft spot for the software community. Working with everything from web applications to cellphone towers has given him a very particular set of skills and the habit of breaking... Read More →

Karl Henrik Nilsson @KHNilsson LogicApps unleash your productivity pdf
Friday November 16, 2018 3:30pm - 4:20pm EET
1. Alfa
  Session

3:30pm EET

[SLIDES]Marco Heimeshoff @Heimeshoff - Software development is not about software
We build software that changes the world. From optimizing small companies to connecting humans and businesses on a global scale, our work plays a hidden but major role. Software development is not about software, it is about understanding the customers domain and solving their problems. We need a culture, a way of thinking about the needs of the customers first and putting an emphasis on their language and human interactions. If we let the domain drive our design, we can tackle complexity in the heart of software. The pillars of Domain Driven Design are learning, language and empathy. With the right mindset it becomes simple to derive good models, keep them pure and aligned with the business.
Let's explore how to use Domain Driven Design to transform everything in your organisation: code, culture, agile and architecture.
Speakers
avatar for Marco Heimeshoff

Marco Heimeshoff

Chief of Storytelling, Heimeshoff IT
Marco Heimeshoff is a trainer, coach and software developer from germany. He co-organizes KanDDDinsky, a conference about the art of business software and founded the german DDD community in 2013.Marco Heimeshoff has an unhealty relationship with Domain Driven Design, and won't leave... Read More →

Marco Heimeshoff @Heimeshoff Software development is not about software pdf
Friday November 16, 2018 3:30pm - 4:20pm EET
3. Garage
  Session

3:30pm EET

[SLIDES]Priit Liivak @priitliivak - Impact of cultural dimensions in distributed software teams
When software teams grow across geographical boundaries, they face a new set of communication challenges. These challenges may arise from large time-zone differences, new communication channels or, in some cases, from disparities in cultural paradigms. During this talk, I will share my knowledge and experiences from working with various distributed development teams in an international organization. By reflecting on scientific research and various real-life stories, I wish to improve your experience working in a dispersed environment. 
Speakers
avatar for Priit Liivak

Priit Liivak

Head of Engineering, Nortal
Priit learned to program before he learned to play games with computer. Most of his career he has been in software developer role in various sized projects and teams. Always searching for innovative ideas and new technologies to adopt. In spare time he is learning stuff he knows nothing... Read More →

Priit Liivak @priitliivak Impact of cultural dimensions in distributed software teams pdf
Friday November 16, 2018 3:30pm - 4:20pm EET
4. Lambda
  Session

4:40pm EET

[SLIDES]Keynote: Jeff Strauss @jeffreystrauss - Starting Over
Adversity. A necessary component of life. Inevitably, we all reach professional and personal moments that require us to take a deep breath and a giant step back. Moving forward again often feels difficult, even impossible. We suffer, immobilized by fear.

But fear is more than some pesky roadblock. It is a rational response to adversity. Whether facing a major code refactoring, the changing technology landscape, a new role, or even a fresh career, we can learn to leverage fear and uncertainty to move beyond our hurdles and get the job done! Key life skills exist that can be developed to conquer adversity. Learn to assess risks, build relationships, and recognize opportunities for growth.

Starting over may seem insurmountable. Armed with the right skills, perspective, and a little patience, nothing truly is.
Speakers
avatar for JEFF STRAUSS

JEFF STRAUSS

Technical Architect & an Attorney, World Wide Technolog
Jeff is a software developer, an entrepreneur, and an attorney. As a consultant at WWT Asynchrony Labs, with unique experiences that combine technology and law, he maintains a passion for solving problems with inspired solutions, improving life through technology.A dedicated member... Read More →

STRAUSS Starting Over (Build Stuff 2018 Keynote) key
Friday November 16, 2018 4:40pm - 5:40pm EET
1. Alfa
  Session
 
Saturday, November 17
 

9:00am EET

(PART1) Chris Condron & James Geall - Building real world distributed systems
Limited Capacity seats available
When you build a real event sourced system, there are a number of patterns that are often spoken to but not shown. This class will walk you through some of them.



Speakers
avatar for CHRIS CONDRON

CHRIS CONDRON

Chief Technology Officer, Eventstore
Asset Management at Linedata Chris is a software engineer and architect who's been building message driven and event sourced systems for 20 years and is currently working at Linedata. He has worked in the telecom, finance, and biomedical industries delivering, supporting, and transforming... Read More →
avatar for James Geall

James Geall

An independent consultant, Event Store
James Geall is an independent consultant based in Europe and has been developing distributed systems for over 19 years. For the last 12 years, the majority of those systems have been built using eventsourcing or many of the principals that underpin eventsourcing. He has gained a wealth... Read More →

Saturday November 17, 2018 9:00am - 5:00pm EET
2. Beta
  Workshop

9:00am EET

(PART1) Ian Cooper - Practical Messaging
Limited Capacity seats available
Increasingly developers are relying on distributed architectures to solve the problems of scaling their applications and their development teams. But that means they now have to consider the problem of getting the parts of their systems to talk to each other.In this tutorial, we will look at why asynchronous messaging is often the preferred solution to the problems of integrating and distributed solution, and look at the implementation of common messaging patterns.
If you have ever been put off moving from RPC-based solutions to messaging because of the need to learn how to implement messaging based solutions, this workshop will get you started. if you have been using messaging but want to gain a firmer understanding
The session will be a hands-on introduction and take you from simple messaging scenarios like "Hello World" through to more complex ideas like routing, brokers, and publish-subscribe.

Topics covered will include:
Day 1: Messaging Architectures and Simple Patterns
  • Integration Styles
  • Why Prefer Messaging?
  • Decoupled Invocation
  • Work Queues
  • Messaging Systems
  • Pipes and Filters Architectures
  • Channels, Endpoints, Routers
  • Types of Messages
  • Command. Events, & Documents
  • Request-Reply
  • Channels
  • Point-to-Point
  • Publish-Subscribe
  • Data Type Channel
  • Invalid Message Channel
  • Dead Letter Channel
  • Endpoints
  • Polling Consumers
  • Event Driven Consumers
  • Competing Consumers
  • Service Activator
Day 2: Distributed Systems Advanced Patterns
  • Routers
  • Content Based Router
  • Routing Slip
  • Process Manager
  • Management
  • Message Store
  • Control Bus
  • Reliability
  • CAP Theorem
  • Eventual Consistency
  • Guaranteed Delivery
  • At Least Once
  • Exactly Once
  • Durability & Persistence
  • Rabbit MQ Clusters
  • .NET Frameworks
  • Brighter
  • Mass Transit
  • NServiceBus
  • Message Oriented Middleware
  • Rabbit MQ
  • Redis
  • RDBMS
  • Kafka
  • SQS + SNS
  • Kinesis
  • Azure Service Bus
There will be hands on coding exercises in .NET and Python enabling you to implement simple and more complex messaging scenarios.
Computer setup: 
We will use Rabbit MQ for examples. You need not have the latter installed on your machine, but you should have Docker installed on your machine, as exercises will use Docker Compose.
Speakers
avatar for IAN COOPER

IAN COOPER

Polyglot Coding Architect, JustEat
Polyglot Coding Architect in London, founder of #ldnug, speaker, tabletop gamer, geek. Tattooed, pierced, and bearded. The 'guv' on @BrighterCommand

Saturday November 17, 2018 9:00am - 5:00pm EET
4. Lambda
  Workshop

9:00am EET

(PART1) Jimmy Bogard & Adam Ralph - SOA Done Right (with examples in ASP.NET and NServiceBus)
Limited Capacity seats available
Go beyond the hype and build a solid foundation of theory and practice with this workshop on SOA development.

Join Adam Ralph and Jimmy Bogard for a two-day deep dive covering architectural topics like:

- UI decomposition
- Data ownership across the enterprise
- Finding service boundaries

You’ll also learn the nitty-gritty details of building production-ready systems including:

- Fault tolerance – HTTP and queues
- Reliable integration with 3rd party systems
- Scalability, high availability & monitoring

Finally, get some hands-on experience in SOA development by building:

- Scalable command-processing endpoints
- Publish/subscribe event-processing interactions
- Long-running multi-stage business processes and policies

## Objectives

We’ll understand service oriented architecture concepts, and DDD concepts such as bounded contexts and data ownership.

We’ll apply those concepts to build a simple, yet fully functional, order management system sample with a microservices architecture, using patterns such as command processing, pub/sub and long-running sagas.

## Skill Level

Senior developers, tech leads, and architects will benefit most from this workshop.

## Computer setup

Participants are requested to bring a Windows laptop with Visual Studio 2017 and to follow the full set up instructions at least one week before the workshop, available at https://github.com/Particular/Workshop/blob/master/README.md 
Speakers
avatar for JIMMY BOGARD

JIMMY BOGARD

Creator of OSS library AutoMapper, Headspring
Jimmy is a member of the ASPInsiders group, the C# Insiders group, and received the "Microsoft Most Valuable Professional" (MVP) award for ASP.NET in 2009-2018. Jimmy is also the creator and maintainer of the popular OSS library AutoMapper.
avatar for Adam Ralph

Adam Ralph

Distributed systems guy, Particular Software
Adam is a distributed systems enthusiast and digital nomad. He works for Particular Software, the makers of NServiceBus. Adam has designed and maintained complex software systems at several companies in the finance industry. He's seen both the good and the bad that can come from applying... Read More →

Saturday November 17, 2018 9:00am - 5:00pm EET
1. Alfa
  Workshop

9:00am EET

(PART1) Roy Osherove - Elastic, Agile and adaptive Leadership Workshop
Limited Capacity seats available
The Problem 
As managers, architects, and other types of technical team leaders, you usually learn the “what” of how your teams should work. You learn about methodologies, practices and techniques for delivering software. Often, you leave courses on these topics with a great desire to “change” how things work, but soon discover you are “stuck”. Stuck convincing your team to adopt specific practices. Stuck by not having enough time to learn how to accomplish these practices (“we don’t have time for unit testing”). Stuck with all the people related aspects of leading a team.
Objective
In this workshop we will learn essential skills and techniques for leading software teams, based on elastic and adaptive leadership principles.
You will gain the skills to make real change happen in your team, and to grow the team you want from the team you have.
1. Learn about the three basic team modes: Survival mode, Learning mode and Self Organization Mode. Learn how to know which mode your team is in right now.
2. Learn essential skills for the three modes of leadership you will need for the three phases of the team: Command and control leadership, Coaching and facilitative leadership.
3. Learn how to change anything by understanding why people behave they way they do, and understanding the six influence forces that affect our behavior.
4. Participate in engaging exercises that will examine your skills at the various leadership modes.

Agenda - Day 1  
1. The role of the leader, and the leader’s manifesto
2. Introduction to elastic leadership
3. The three team and leadership modes
4. Focusing on Survival mode and how to get out of it
5. Exercises on survival mode
6. Commitment Language
7. Exercises on Commitment Language  

Agenda - Day 2 
1. The Learning Mode, and the coaching leader
2. How we learn
3. How to grow people
4. Delegation as growth tool
5. “What are you going to do about it?”
6. Exercises in delegation
7. Team Homework
8. Clearing Meetings and growth meters
9. Influence Forces
10. Exercises in influence forces
11. Team Dysfunctions
Speakers
avatar for ROY OSHEROVE

ROY OSHEROVE

Author of "Art of Unit Testing", Blocktrace
Roy Osherove is the author of "Art of Unit Testing" "Elastic Leadership" and the upcoming "Enterprise DevOps" books. He has worked with some of the world's largest companies to help implement continuous delivery at scale.

Saturday November 17, 2018 9:00am - 5:00pm EET
3. Garage
  Workshop

9:00am EET

Dennis Traub - Hands-On AWS Workshop
Limited Capacity seats available
What you will learn:
- How to secure your account with IAM and CloudTrail
- How to securely store and archive data with S3 and Glacier
- How to build and troubleshoot a multi-tier infrastructure

Who should attend:
This workshop is primarily aimed at developers, ops specialists and architects with basic experience on AWS or similar cloud platforms. However, we will be working in groups, therefore even if you've never had a chance to work with the cloud before, this is your chance to learn a lot.

Prerequisites:
There will be pre-provisioned training accounts, so you won't need to bring your own.

Speakers
avatar for DENNIS TRAUB

DENNIS TRAUB

CLOUD EXPERT & EVANGELIST, Codecentric AG
With more than 20 years in the industry, Dennis has been building software for many clients, ranging from startups to multinational corporations. As a Fellow at codecentric he helps his clients transforming their business through technology, with an emphasis on digitization and the... Read More →

Saturday November 17, 2018 9:00am - 5:00pm EET
5. Zeta
  Workshop

9:00am EET

Kevlin Henney - Paradigms Lost, Paradigms Regained: Programming with Objects and Functions and More
Limited Capacity seats available
It is very easy to get stuck in one way of doing things. This is as true of programming as it is of life. Although a programming paradigm represents a set of stylistic choices, it is much more than this: a paradigm also represents a way of thinking. Having only way to think about problems is too limiting. A programming paradigm represents a set of patterns of problem framing and solving and contains the ingredients of software architecture. As Émile Auguste Chartier noted, there is nothing more dangerous than an idea when you have only one idea.
Perhaps even more problematic than being stuck with a narrow view of paradigms, is being stuck with a dysfunctional view of each paradigm. For instance, many developers working in languages and frameworks that support object orientation lack a strong idea of the principles of interaction, data abstraction and granularity that support an effective view of OO, and instead surround themselves with manager objects, singletons and DTOs.
During the day we will explore the strengths and weaknesses of different programming styles, patterns, paradigms, languages, etc., with examples and opportunity for discussion.
Notes: This is a lecture-based day, but with plenty of opportunity for questions and discussion. This is the same 1-day session (updated slightly) that was popular in 2016.
Speakers
avatar for Kevlin Henney

Kevlin Henney

Thought Provoker
Kevlin is an independent consultant and trainer based in the UK. His development interests are in patterns, programming, practice, and process. He has been a columnist for various magazines and websites, including Better Software, The Register, Java Report and the C/C++ Users Journal... Read More →

Saturday November 17, 2018 9:00am - 5:00pm EET
9. Eta
  Workshop

9:00am EET

Martin Hinshelwood - Delivering software with Azure DevOps Services
Limited Capacity seats available
With the rename and relaunch of VSTS as Azure DevOps and lost of new features there is no better platform for being able to deliver all of your applications continuously to production.  We will cover planning and organisation with Azure Boards, repos and pull requests in Azure Code, continuous delivery in Azure Pipelines, and a little stint on Azure Artefacts and Application Insights. Don’t miss this one day workshop that will challenge you to get better at delivering your own software. 
Speakers
avatar for Martin Hinshelwood

Martin Hinshelwood

DevOps & Agile Consultant, naked Agility Limited
Martin Hinshelwood believes that every company deserves high-quality software delivered on a regular cadence that meets its customer’s needs. His goal is to help you reduce your cycle time, improve your time to market, and minimise any organisational friction in achieving your goals... Read More →

Saturday November 17, 2018 9:00am - 5:00pm EET
7. Omega
  Workshop

9:00am EET

Philipp Krenn - Monitor Your Applications with Logs, Metrics, Pings, and Traces
Limited Capacity seats available
"With microservices every outage is like a murder mystery" is a common complaint. But it doesn't have to be! This workshop gives an introduction on how to monitor distributed applications with open source tools and in particular the Elastic Stack (previously ELK Stack).
We dive into:
* System metrics: Keep track of network traffic and system load.
* Application logs: Collect structured logs in a central location.
* Uptime monitoring: Ping services and actively monitor their availability and response time.
* Application metrics: Get the information from the applications' metrics and health endpoints via REST or JMX.
* Request tracing: Use Sleuth to trace requests through a distributed system and Zipkin to show how long each call takes.
Speakers
avatar for Philipp Krenn

Philipp Krenn

Developer Advocate, Elastic
Philipp lives to demo interesting technology. Having worked as a web, infrastructure, and database engineer for more than ten years, Philipp is now working as a developer advocate at Elastic — the company behind the open source Elastic Stack consisting of

Saturday November 17, 2018 9:00am - 5:00pm EET
6. Theta
  Workshop

9:00am EET

Russ Miles - Chaos Engineering 101
Limited Capacity seats available
Are you ready to improve your resilience of your Cloud systems? In this 3-day, pay for, workshop Russ Miles will dive into Chaos Engineering so that you can build confidence in your systems behavior and identify weaknesses before they happen!

Chaos Engineering is a relatively new term for a practice that has been successfully applied by some of the largest and most complex production systems for some time. If you’re working with large-scale, complex systems then you will likely benefit from building confidence in your systems using the Chaos Engineering approach.

Chaos Engineering is an empirical discipline for defining experiments where the weaknesses of a complex, or even chaotic, system can be explored, discovered and eventually rectified. Most frequently practiced in Production, Chaos Engineering helps you learn about your system so that it can be continuously improved in the face of current and future conditions.

Key takeaways:
•    Demystify Chaos Engineering and explore how and why it is needed.    
•    Learn how to establish an culture, practice, architecture and design that is ready for Chaos Engineering.   •    Learn how to effectively Plan your own Game Days to collectively uncover system weaknesses with your team.    
•    Learn how to Design, Build and Execute careful and controlled Chaos Engineering experiments to learn about weaknesses in your complex production systems.  
•    Learn how to apply different levels of experiments to learn about different weaknesses.
Speakers
avatar for RUSS MILES

RUSS MILES

EXPERT IN CHAOS ENGINEERING
"Russ Miles is CEO of ChaosIQ.io where he and his team build commercial and open source (ChaosToolkit.org) products and provide services to companies applying Chaos Engineering to build confidence in the resilience of their production systems." Russ’ experience covers almost every... Read More →

Saturday November 17, 2018 9:00am - 5:00pm EET
8. Epsilon
  Workshop
 
Sunday, November 18
 

9:00am EET

(PART2) Chris Condron & James Geall - Building real world distributed systems
Limited Capacity seats available
When you build a real event sourced system, there are a number of patterns that are often spoken to but not shown. This class will walk you through some of them.



Speakers
avatar for CHRIS CONDRON

CHRIS CONDRON

Chief Technology Officer, Eventstore
Asset Management at Linedata Chris is a software engineer and architect who's been building message driven and event sourced systems for 20 years and is currently working at Linedata. He has worked in the telecom, finance, and biomedical industries delivering, supporting, and transforming... Read More →
avatar for James Geall

James Geall

An independent consultant, Event Store
James Geall is an independent consultant based in Europe and has been developing distributed systems for over 19 years. For the last 12 years, the majority of those systems have been built using eventsourcing or many of the principals that underpin eventsourcing. He has gained a wealth... Read More →

Sunday November 18, 2018 9:00am - 5:00pm EET
2. Beta
  Workshop

9:00am EET

(PART2) Ian Cooper - Practical Messaging
Limited Capacity seats available
Increasingly developers are relying on distributed architectures to solve the problems of scaling their applications and their development teams. But that means they now have to consider the problem of getting the parts of their systems to talk to each other.In this tutorial, we will look at why asynchronous messaging is often the preferred solution to the problems of integrating and distributed solution, and look at the implementation of common messaging patterns.
If you have ever been put off moving from RPC-based solutions to messaging because of the need to learn how to implement messaging based solutions, this workshop will get you started. if you have been using messaging but want to gain a firmer understanding
The session will be a hands-on introduction and take you from simple messaging scenarios like "Hello World" through to more complex ideas like routing, brokers, and publish-subscribe.

Topics covered will include:
Day 1: Messaging Architectures and Simple Patterns
  • Integration Styles
  • Why Prefer Messaging?
  • Decoupled Invocation
  • Work Queues
  • Messaging Systems
  • Pipes and Filters Architectures
  • Channels, Endpoints, Routers
  • Types of Messages
  • Command. Events, & Documents
  • Request-Reply
  • Channels
  • Point-to-Point
  • Publish-Subscribe
  • Data Type Channel
  • Invalid Message Channel
  • Dead Letter Channel
  • Endpoints
  • Polling Consumers
  • Event Driven Consumers
  • Competing Consumers
  • Service Activator
Day 2: Distributed Systems Advanced Patterns
  • Routers
  • Content Based Router
  • Routing Slip
  • Process Manager
  • Management
  • Message Store
  • Control Bus
  • Reliability
  • CAP Theorem
  • Eventual Consistency
  • Guaranteed Delivery
  • At Least Once
  • Exactly Once
  • Durability & Persistence
  • Rabbit MQ Clusters
  • .NET Frameworks
  • Brighter
  • Mass Transit
  • NServiceBus
  • Message Oriented Middleware
  • Rabbit MQ
  • Redis
  • RDBMS
  • Kafka
  • SQS + SNS
  • Kinesis
  • Azure Service Bus
There will be hands on coding exercises in .NET and Python enabling you to implement simple and more complex messaging scenarios.
Computer setup: 
We will use Rabbit MQ for examples. You need not have the latter installed on your machine, but you should have Docker installed on your machine, as exercises will use Docker Compose.
Speakers
avatar for IAN COOPER

IAN COOPER

Polyglot Coding Architect, JustEat
Polyglot Coding Architect in London, founder of #ldnug, speaker, tabletop gamer, geek. Tattooed, pierced, and bearded. The 'guv' on @BrighterCommand

Sunday November 18, 2018 9:00am - 5:00pm EET
4. Lambda
  Workshop

9:00am EET

(PART2) Jimmy Bogard & Adam Ralph - SOA Done Right (with examples in ASP.NET and NServiceBus)
Limited Capacity seats available
Go beyond the hype and build a solid foundation of theory and practice with this workshop on SOA development.

Join Adam Ralph and Jimmy Bogard for a two-day deep dive covering architectural topics like:

- UI decomposition
- Data ownership across the enterprise
- Finding service boundaries

You’ll also learn the nitty-gritty details of building production-ready systems including:

- Fault tolerance – HTTP and queues
- Reliable integration with 3rd party systems
- Scalability, high availability & monitoring

Finally, get some hands-on experience in SOA development by building:

- Scalable command-processing endpoints
- Publish/subscribe event-processing interactions
- Long-running multi-stage business processes and policies

## Objectives

We’ll understand service oriented architecture concepts, and DDD concepts such as bounded contexts and data ownership.

We’ll apply those concepts to build a simple, yet fully functional, order management system sample with a microservices architecture, using patterns such as command processing, pub/sub and long-running sagas.

## Skill Level

Senior developers, tech leads, and architects will benefit most from this workshop.

## Computer setup

Participants are requested to bring a Windows laptop with Visual Studio 2017 and to follow the full set up instructions at least one week before the workshop, available at https://github.com/Particular/Workshop/blob/master/README.md 
Speakers
avatar for JIMMY BOGARD

JIMMY BOGARD

Creator of OSS library AutoMapper, Headspring
Jimmy is a member of the ASPInsiders group, the C# Insiders group, and received the "Microsoft Most Valuable Professional" (MVP) award for ASP.NET in 2009-2018. Jimmy is also the creator and maintainer of the popular OSS library AutoMapper.
avatar for Adam Ralph

Adam Ralph

Distributed systems guy, Particular Software
Adam is a distributed systems enthusiast and digital nomad. He works for Particular Software, the makers of NServiceBus. Adam has designed and maintained complex software systems at several companies in the finance industry. He's seen both the good and the bad that can come from applying... Read More →

Sunday November 18, 2018 9:00am - 5:00pm EET
1. Alfa
  Workshop

9:00am EET

(PART2) Roy Osherove - Elastic, Agile and adaptive Leadership Workshop
Limited Capacity seats available
The Problem 
As managers, architects, and other types of technical team leaders, you usually learn the “what” of how your teams should work. You learn about methodologies, practices and techniques for delivering software. Often, you leave courses on these topics with a great desire to “change” how things work, but soon discover you are “stuck”. Stuck convincing your team to adopt specific practices. Stuck by not having enough time to learn how to accomplish these practices (“we don’t have time for unit testing”). Stuck with all the people related aspects of leading a team.
Objective
In this workshop we will learn essential skills and techniques for leading software teams, based on elastic and adaptive leadership principles.
You will gain the skills to make real change happen in your team, and to grow the team you want from the team you have.
1. Learn about the three basic team modes: Survival mode, Learning mode and Self Organization Mode. Learn how to know which mode your team is in right now.
2. Learn essential skills for the three modes of leadership you will need for the three phases of the team: Command and control leadership, Coaching and facilitative leadership.
3. Learn how to change anything by understanding why people behave they way they do, and understanding the six influence forces that affect our behavior.
4. Participate in engaging exercises that will examine your skills at the various leadership modes.

Agenda - Day 1  
1. The role of the leader, and the leader’s manifesto
2. Introduction to elastic leadership
3. The three team and leadership modes
4. Focusing on Survival mode and how to get out of it
5. Exercises on survival mode
6. Commitment Language
7. Exercises on Commitment Language  

Agenda - Day 2 
1. The Learning Mode, and the coaching leader
2. How we learn
3. How to grow people
4. Delegation as growth tool
5. “What are you going to do about it?”
6. Exercises in delegation
7. Team Homework
8. Clearing Meetings and growth meters
9. Influence Forces
10. Exercises in influence forces
11. Team Dysfunctions 
Speakers
avatar for ROY OSHEROVE

ROY OSHEROVE

Author of "Art of Unit Testing", Blocktrace
Roy Osherove is the author of "Art of Unit Testing" "Elastic Leadership" and the upcoming "Enterprise DevOps" books. He has worked with some of the world's largest companies to help implement continuous delivery at scale.

Sunday November 18, 2018 9:00am - 5:00pm EET
3. Garage
  Workshop

9:00am EET

Denise Jacobs - Hacking the Creative Brain
Limited Capacity seats available
As tech professionals, what we need is a way to work better so that we can create more, right? Our brain is our most powerful tool, but so often the practices and culture of work only stifle our efforts to produce fresh ideas and approaches when most needed. As developers, we hack all of the time. In order to have more creative productivity, we need to do is re-approach and modify how we use our brains on a daily basis in order to access more of its inherent processing power. Through exploring various concepts and approaches, including the neuroscience of creativity, productivity techniques, and emerging practices that spur innovation, we’ll discover not only the ways in which our brains work best, but also what’s behind the times when we feel on fire with creativity and when we don’t. We’ll translate this information into processes and techniques for dramatically enhanced creative productivity. Beware: this workshop challenges the standard norms around concentration, focus, productivity, and may change how you work…for the better.

Topics include:
• The six step process for hacking the brain in order to work better and create more
• The neuroscience behind creativity
• Recognizing and expanding idea generating and capturing styles
• Shifting your brain into the state where one accesses information and ideates best
• Leveraging the relationship between collaboration and playing games to foment creative inspiration
You’ll get tools to aid with:
• Managing time and eliminating distractions to achieve optimal rightbrained productivity
• Busting the biggest blocks and inhibitors of creativity
• Creating a repository of inspiration sources to kick-start the creative thinking and innovation process
• Finishing products faster
The goal of the workshop is to help participants:
• Reconfigure standard approaches to work in order to be more innovative and creatively productive
• Transform negative stress into eustress to spur creative productivity
• Structure time and workspaces to be more productive
• Generate new ideas when most needed
Speakers
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Denise Jacobs

Founder & CEO, The Creative Dose
Denise Jacobs is a Speaker + Author + Creativity Evangelist who speaks at conferences and consults with companies worldwide. As the Founder + CEO of The Creative Dose, keynote speaker, and trainer, she helps individuals in companies unleash their creativity through banishing their inner critic and hacking their creative brains. Denise’s keynotes and trainings give A Creative Dose™ – an injection of inspiration and immediately applicable... Read More →

Sunday November 18, 2018 9:00am - 5:00pm EET
6. Theta
  Workshop

9:00am EET

Elton Stoneman - Docker on Windows: From 101 to Production
Limited Capacity seats available
Docker is a platform for running applications in lightweight units of compute called containers. You can run new and old apps in containers, and get increased portability, security and efficiency for your software. The platform supports the full development and deployment lifecycle - with Docker you can build, ship and run any app anywhere.

Docker has production support for containers on Windows Server 2016, and Windows containers don't need separate licencing. Migrating your apps to Docker is a great way to increase utilization in your datacenter, or to prepare for a move to the cloud. When your app is running in Docker, it's easy to break features out and run them in separate containers, so you can deploy updates to your app without a full regression test.

In this full-day workshop you'll use Docker EE on Windows Server 2016* and learn:

- how Docker containers work on Windows
- how to package existing .NET apps using Docker
- how to break features out from a monolith into separate containers
- how to add monitoring to your containers
- how Docker supports resilience and scale on a single server
- how to run a full CI pipeline using Docker
- how Docker swarm mode provides production-grade orchestration.


* - you don't need your own Windows Server machine, you'll be provided with a VM in the cloud. You just need a Remote Desktop client so you can connect.
Speakers
avatar for Elton Stoneman

Elton Stoneman

Developer Advocate, Docker
Microsoft MVP \| Pluralsight Author \| Developer Advocate @DockerI'm a Pluralsight Author, Microsoft MVP and Developer Advocate at Docker, Inc. I've been architecting and delivering successful solutions with Microsoft technologies since 2000, most recently Big Data and API implementations... Read More →

Sunday November 18, 2018 9:00am - 5:00pm EET
7. Omega
  Workshop

9:00am EET

Sam Newman - Building Microservices Workshop
Limited Capacity seats available
There is lots of theory out there about microservice architecture, but how often do you get to put that knowledge into practice? It's not feasible to re-architect your real system often, and certainly not in a single day, or is it? This brand new workshop from the author of Building Microservices gives you a safe space to explore ideas behind microservice architectures with peers from other organisations.
In this workshop, we'll share some framing for micro service architectures that explore the various forces that can drive the design and evolution of microservices, and then you'll participate in a series of interactive architectural kata exercises to put your new found knowledge to the test. Afterwards, you'll have a series of tools to take back to your own organisations to put into practice.
This workshop will cover
  • What makes a good microservice
  • How to use concepts from domain driven design to define service boundaries
  • Explore how to plan and manage a migration from a monolith to the microservice architecture
  • Understand how technical choices can impact the architecture itself
  • How to manage change and governance in a microservice environment
Audience
People who are in the process of moving to micro services, or are already on the path should get a lot out of the event. It's primarily aimed at people in technical leadership positions like tech leads and architects, but should be of use to any developer or operations person interested in how to move to microservices. Prior knowledge of service oriented architectures generally or microservices specifically is useful, but by no means essential.
Attendee Requirements
This is a participatory workshop. You won't get to just sit there and watch - the more you participate in the workshop, the more you'll get out!

Speakers
avatar for Sam Newman

Sam Newman

Author of Building Microservices, Sam Newman & Associates
Sam Newman is an independent consultant specialising in helping people ship software fast. Sam has worked extensively with the cloud, continuous delivery, and microservices and is especially preoccupied with understanding how to more easily deploy working software into production... Read More →

Sunday November 18, 2018 9:00am - 5:00pm EET
5. Zeta
  Workshop

9:00am EET

Yan Cui - Production-Ready Serverless: operational patterns and practices
Limited Capacity seats available
Getting started with AWS Lambda is easy, but understanding the operational challenges and tradeoffs is a much more nuanced topic, and one that you need to grasp before you can be confident in operating a serverless architecture responsibly. Come to this workshop and learn all about Serverless ops.
Speakers
avatar for Yan Cui

Yan Cui

Principal Engineer, DAZN
Yan is an experienced engineer who has run production workload at scale in AWS for nearly 10 years. He has been an architect and principal engineer with a variety of industries ranging from banking, e-commerce, sports streaming to mobile gaming. He has worked extensively with AWS... Read More →

Sunday November 18, 2018 9:00am - 5:00pm EET
8. Epsilon
  Workshop
 
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