To the Pub

If you're dead on your feet and want to skip straight to the pub, from 6PM we'll be opening up the bar (see programme for location details).

An Engineer's Guide to a Good Night's Sleep

Featuring Nicky Wrightson

As organisations look to empower engineers more, and embrace devops practices, you have seen the support role change quite a bit too.

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The Dark Side Of Events

Featuring Vladik Khononov

Events are your industry’s near and dear. All technological conferences are full of talks on event sourcing, event driven architectures, or event driven integrations. So hey, why not make another one? …But a bit different: Let’s talk about the dark side of this pattern. Events, as any tool, can...

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Micro Frontends – A Strive for Fully Verticalized Systems

Featuring David Leitner

Microservices brought you significant benefits, which allow you to structure teams based on business capabilities, improve scalability and enable the flexibility of being polyglot. Unfortunately, these powerful architectures are often complemented by a feature-rich browser application which ends...

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Leveraging Metamodels and DCI to Build Modular Monoliths

Featuring Dan Haywood

In your typical "big-ball-of-mud" monolith, both (horizontal) layers and (vertical) subdomains become intertwined. Architectural constraints are needed to prevent this from happening. Microservices is one way to enforce those constraints, but if what you're really struggling with is...

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Oops, I DDD it Again (and Again)

Featuring Ora Egozi-Barzilai

Using DDD for mapping a company’s core domain is quite known and one can find many case studies on that, but case studies for merging or re-dividing domains upon acquisition are harder to find.

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DDD: Strategic Patterns and Microservices by Example

Featuring Erik Ashepa

As Microservices have grown in popularity in recent years and quickly became the preferred method for many developers, more and more teams are facing difficulties integrating and extending them with the high cadence promise they initially delivered.

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Beyond Design Principles and Patterns: Writing Good Object-Oriented Code

Featuring Matthias Noback

Of course, you should read all you can about SOLID, Design patterns, Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, etc. Once you have a basic understanding of these topics you still have to write that code though, and write it well too! What is good code? Are there some guidelines, or rules of...

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Lightning Talk: Event Sourced Project Management: Plan, Execute and Deliver Like A Boss

Featuring Robert Reppel

Three years of abusing event storming and bounded contexts as a project planning tool: Duct tape, improv and baling wire. An experience report.

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Architect’s Survival Guide to Healthcare

Featuring Sonya Natanzon

Healthcare is a multi-trillion dollar industry, with a complex ecosystem of patients, providers and payers, entwined by diverse systems and a shifting regulatory landscape.

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