APIs
Scaling API Independence: Mocking, Contract Testing & Observability in Large Microservices Environments
Wednesday Apr 9 / 01:35PM BST
Microservices promise faster deployments and team autonomy. In reality, engineers are often blocked waiting for APIs, dealing with broken sandboxes, or wrangling test environments.
Tom Akehurst
CTO and Co-Founder @WireMock, 20+ Years Building Enterprise Systems
Platforms for Secure API Connectivity With Architecture as Code
Wednesday Apr 9 / 03:55PM BST
As microservices and complex platforms become the standard, ensuring secure connectivity while maintaining a smooth developer experience is a significant challenge. Traditional security models often introduce friction, slowing down innovation and deployment.
James Gough
Distinguished Engineer, API Platform Lead Architect @Morgan Stanley, Co-Author of Optimizing Java
Hybrid Cloud-Native Networking in Enterprise - Some Assembly Required
Tuesday Apr 8 / 03:55PM BST
Delivering a 'useful' network in the typical enterprise has always been challenging. Whether it's the rush to containerization, business goals around accelerated value delivery or regulatory pressure to be multi-cloud or even resurrect your own data centers, that job keeps getting harder.
Louis Ryan
CTO @solo.io, Co-Creator of Istio and gRPC
Timeouts, Retries and Idempotency In Distributed Systems
Wednesday Apr 9 / 10:35AM BST
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again” - this quote attributed to Einstein warns us of the danger of magical thinking, hoping that trying something just one more time will achieve success when before we failed. But is this really insanity?
Sam Newman
Microservice, Cloud, CI/CD Expert, Author of "Building Microservices" and "Monolith to Microservices", 20+ Years Experience as a Developer