Conference: March 4-6, 2015
Track: Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Location:
- Fleming, 3rd flr.
Day of week:
- Friday
Have you ever browsed to a site like eBay or Amazon and wondered, or even fantasized about what software architecture they may have used, and what insights their teams must have after solving such complex and large-scale problems? This track will give you an exclusive chance to learn directly from some of the most well-known and high-volume web applications in the world.
by Matt Ranney
Chief Systems Architect at Uber, Co-founder of Voxer
Matching riders with drivers is an interesting problem, but as Uber moves into new markets with new services, the existing architecture breaks down. As a result we've completely redesigned the realtime market system to be more flexible, scalable, and available.
This talk will explain the Uber architecture overall, with a focus on the dispatch systems. We'll talk about the geospatial index we built, how we handle datacenter failure, and our approach to the distributed...
by Richard Kasperowski
QCon Open Space Facilitator
Open Space
Join Randy Shoup, our speakers, and other attendees for the Architecture Open Space.
What is Open Space?
Every day at QCon London, we’ll open space five times, once for each track. Open Space is a kind of unconference, a simple way to run productive meetings for 5 to 2000 or more people, and a powerful way to lead any kind of organization in everyday practice and extraordinary change.
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by Jason McHugh
Facebook Engineer
In April 2013 Facebook acquired the Atlas Advertising Suite from Microsoft. The Atlas system was originally an independent company started in 2001, later purchased by aQuantive, and then purchased by Microsoft in 2007 for $6 billion. Atlas is a third party ad server with a focus on campaign management and results tracking. It serves billions of ad impressions each day.
It quickly became apparent that we wouldn't be able to continue to run the Atlas software stack in its current form...
by Randy Shoup
Consulting CTO (former Google and eBay)
Over time, almost all large, well-known web sites have evolved their architectures from an early monolithic application to a loosely-coupled ecosystem of polyglot microservices. While first-order goals are almost always driven by the needs of scalability and velocity, this evolution also produces second-order effects on the organization as well. This session will discuss modern service architectures at scale, using specific examples from both Google and eBay.
It will cover some...
by Yoni Goldberg
Lead Software Engineer at Gilt
Once built upon a monolithic Rails application, Gilt has spent the past few years transitioning to a distributed, scalable architecture based on hundreds of micro-services built in Scala.
In this talk, Gilt Lead Software Engineer Yoni Goldberg will discuss the many advantages that microservices can offer to has offered to the Gilt engineering team, as well as the challenges--and how Gilt’s engineers have gone about resolving these challenges. Yoni will also provide a deep-dive...
by Niklas Gustavsson
Backend Engineer, Spotify
Spotify streams music to more than 60 million users from a catalogue of 30 million songs.
Spotify has long used what is now known as a microservice architecture. Its backend consists of hundreds of services, small and single purpose. It has allowed a continuous evolution of the Spotify feature set and has supported scaling out to supporting now more than 60 million users.
This talk will go into detail on how a Spotify service works and how the UNIX philosophy of composing...
Tracks
Covering innovative topics
Wednesday, 4 March
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Architecture Improvements
Next gen architecture, Arch over the full lifecycle, Bleeding edge tech in legacy, Cognitive biases in architecture, Evolving Architecture.
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Big Data Frameworks, Architectures, and Data Science
As big data tools and architectures continue to evolve, how do you architect and select technologies that work now but are also future-proof?
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DevOps and Continuous Delivery: Code Beyond the Dev Team
As infrastructure becomes as malleable as code, a unified approach from reqs to ops is needed to deliver promised breakthroughs.
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Engineering Culture
The best teams and companies talk about how to create amazing engineering cultures.
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Java - Not Dead Yet
Java is evolving to meet developer and business needs, from lambdas in Java 8 to built-in support for money types rumoured for Java 9.
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Mind Matters at Work
How theories from neuroscience and psychology can help us better understand IT professionals and discover what really motivates them.
Thursday, 5 March
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Docker, containers and application portability
People building stuff for and with containers showing why application portability is important, and what can be done with expanding ecosystems.
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Evolving agile
Reflecting on and learning from successes and failures in applying agile approaches since the creation of the Agile Manifesto and exploring ways of applying agile practices to increase business value.
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HTML and JS Today
The state of the art in web technologies. What is important to know and why?
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Internet of Things
What software devs need to know to design and build for instrumented environments and reactive things, what new issues and questions it raises.
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Modern CS in the Real World
How modern CS helps you tackle today's problems.
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Reactive Architecture
How to create reactive systems is more than simply learning a framework. Thinking in a reactive way helps you to design responsive architectures.
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The Go Language
The Go Language - Concurrency, Performance, Systems Programming.
Friday, 6 March
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Get a rare look behind the scenes and get to see the architectures of the most well-known sites with the least known architectures.
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Low latency trading
The 'race to zero' continues. Join us to learn about the latest tecniques being deployed to optimise order routing and execution.
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Open source in finance
Financial services have changed from OS as cost-saving to a competitive weapon. See open source projects that are disrupting the finance industry.
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Product Mastery
Come have fun with fellow PMs and BAs as you learn about Value Management. We'll even tell you dark tales of Snarks, Hippos and other obstacles.
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Taming Microservices
Tackling the challenges of microservices in practice.
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Taming Mobile
Mobile is no longer the Next Big Thing but a requirement for your business. Hear from those who have implemented successful mobile systems.
