Microservices

Session 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.

Speaker image - Tom Akehurst

Tom Akehurst

CTO and Co-Founder @WireMock, 20+ Years Building Enterprise Systems

Session AWS serverless

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.

Speaker image - Kevin Bowman

Kevin Bowman

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

Session resiliency

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?

Speaker image - Sam Newman

Sam Newman

Microservice, Cloud, CI/CD Expert, Author of "Building Microservices" and "Monolith to Microservices", 20+ Years Experience as a Developer