Aaron Harrison, Gartner, Director Research & Advisory in Gartner's Software Engineering Leadership
Enable developer autonomy and self-service through platform teams. Learn how adidas' central platform engineering team at adidas offers standardization of common activities as an attractive, value-add service that enables product teams to create high-quality solutions faster, without reducing their autonomy in higher value activities.
Aaron Harrison is a Director of Advisory in Gartner's Information Technology Leaders practice. Mr. Harrison advises Application, Enterprise Architecture, and Software Engineering Leaders on subjects such as agile, modernization, API strategy, application rationalization, business... Read More →
Ever felt like RunBooks are just bandaids for tech mishaps? They pop up after an incident and only help when the same gremlins strike again. But where’s the RunBook for leveling up your troubleshooting game (fast)? Every company is a unique beast with its own architecture, tech stacks, and dependency webs. Scrambling to link faces with systems and knowing who to call during a crisis can be stressful. And then there’s the real kicker: How do you gauge the true business fallout from an outage, and and determine the best course of action? What if Observability Tools could pull something like your IDE, learning from “anonymous usage stats” to improve over time for everyone on the team? Imagine tapping into the instincts of senior engineers and sharing their troubleshooting savvy across the board. My talk dives into how Retrieval Augmented Techniques (RAG) in AI can make this more seamless in reality. Join me to explore how we can turn troubleshooting into a collective superpower!
Ruchir is the co-founder and CEO of Cardinal, which helps improve the ROI (Return On Investment) of an existing Observability Stack. In his previous life, he spent 7 years as a Lead Engineer on Netflix's Observability team, where he built petabyte-scale Observability products that... Read More →
The cloud-centric world has turned every line of code into a buying decision and highlighted the economic aspects of software design. After first struggling with the ramifications of this, (and a meager $3000.00 budget on my first cloud project in 2009) I discovered how cloud economics presented an opportunity to merge efficiency concepts taken from classic manufacturing with modern software engineering and architecture.
Since that time we have seen an industry wide focus on cloud cost management and new practices like FinOps emerge, but few have explored how to apply cloud economics directly to modern DevOps practices resulting in million dollar lines of code and unprofitable system design that has soured some on cloud computing as a whole. My experience however has been very different. I will share the lessons I've learned over the last 15 years treating cost as a key non-functional requirement during development.
By integrating the Theory of Constraints, Lean Manufacturing, and unit economics, alongside cloud cost efficiency goals and performance as crucial inputs, I will share a strategy that fosters continuous improvement and boosts profitability under current consumption-based cloud pricing models. This approach ensures an economical path from concept to deployment, and ongoing operations, without compromising innovation and time-to-market.
Erik Peterson is the Founder and CTO of CloudZero and a pioneer in engineering-led cost optimization and unit economics. He has been building in the cloud since its arrival and has over two decades of software startup experience, with a passion for cost-efficient engineering and excellent... Read More →
Have you encountered a scenario where, while working on a feature or resolving a bug, you discovered that duplicate records were being generated in a database, or duplicate charges or orders were being processed? Have you handled situations where services communicate asynchronously over the network, idempotency becomes essential to handle message retries, network failures, and eventual consistency among services. Ensuring idempotency is essential, particularly with the help of durable execution systems like Temporal. In this session, we'll delve into the concept of idempotency, elucidating its significance in simplifying the management of cloud based software systems. Through examples and exploration of intricate cases, we'll demonstrate how idempotency can be leveraged effectively with Temporal.
Geetha is a Solutions Architect in the big data management and durable execution space with experience in executing solutions for business problems on cloud and on-premises. She loved distributed computing during her undergrad days and has followed my interest ever since. She provides... Read More →
