Microservices
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
Kraken's Serverless Architecture for Scale, Security, and Sustainability
Monday Apr 7 / 02:45PM BST
The green energy transition is real, and happening, but it needs technology to make it successful. Everything from renewable energy generation onto the grid, to how consumers use energy, needs technology to be effective and keep up with today's demands.

Kevin Bowman
Platform Engineering @KrakenTech (Octopus Energy), Previously @SkyBet and Others, Passionate About Removing Friction From Getting Stuff Successfully Into Production
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