Infrastructure & Ops Superstream Series: Microservices & DevOps

Sam Newman: Introduction (5 minutes) - 5:00am ET | 9:00am UTC/GMT | 2:30pm IST

• Sam Newman welcomes you to the Infrastructure & Ops Superstream.

Laura Bell: From the Trenches (55 minutes) - 5:05am ET | 9:05am UTC/GMT | 2:35pm IST

• Join us for a special discussion with Sam Newman and Laura Bell. They’ll discuss some of the challenges they’ve faced during their careers and shed light on the things that worked well and those that didn’t.
• With over a decade of experience in software development and information security, Laura Bell specializes in bringing security into organizations of every shape and size. She’s the founder and CEO of SafeStack Academy, a community-centric online education platform giving developers, testers, and architects the skills they need to build high-quality, secure software at speed. Laura’s the coauthor of Agile Application Security and Security for Everyone as well as an experienced conference speaker, trainer, and regular panel member. She’s given talks on the subjects of privacy, covert communications, Agile security, and the security mindset at events like Black Hat USA, Velocity, and OSCON.
• Break (10 minutes)

Matthew Fellows: Microservices—Test Smarter, Not Harder (40 minutes) - 6:10am ET | 10:10am UTC/GMT | 3:40pm IST

• Microservices and serverless functions have become mainstream. Writing and deploying small, independent applications has many benefits, but on the downside, it increases the number of integration points, which increases the amount of integration testing required. How can you be confident that all your services will work correctly together, without being burdened by increasingly complex and brittle integration tests? Join Matthew Fellows to learn how Pact solves this problem by using consumer-driven contracts, allowing you to escape integration testing hell and ship your code with speed and confidence.
• Matt Fellows is a core maintainer of the popular API contract-testing framework Pact, and co-founder of the microservices continuous delivery platform Pactflow. A self-described polyglot who enjoys working at the intersection of technology, humans and ideas – ideally fully caffeinated. He’s passionate about giving back to the tech community, sharing learnings at local meetups and conferences, and creating tools like the Muxy chaos testing tool. When not absorbing the Internet via osmosis, he can be found teaching kids at Code Club, playing basketball or pumping iron like Arnie.
• Break (10 minutes)

Scott Shaw: Sensible Multicloud (50 minutes) - 7:00am ET | 11:00am UTC/GMT | 4:30pm IST

• How do you take advantage of the amazing delivery acceleration and developer experience offered by cloud vendors while retaining control over your IT assets and choice of hosting vendor? By developing a sensible, pragmatic multicloud strategy for your business. Scott Shaw explains how this can be done, drawing on his experience consulting to enterprises in Australia. You’ll begin by reviewing the state of public cloud adoption and examining why some businesses are falling short of their cloud expectations. Then Scott will take you through a risk-based methodology for assessing the appropriate level of lock-in, share tips for how to understand and balance the costs inherent in achieving cloud vendor portability, and discuss pragmatic architectural approaches to multicloud that avoid entanglement while minimizing the amount of duplicated effort across vendors.
• Scott Shaw is the head of technology for ThoughtWorks in Australia, where he divides his time between professional services leadership and consulting. As a consultant, he helps enterprise customers shape their technology to align with 21st century practices like cloud, continuous delivery, microservices, and lean governance. A lifelong programmer and technology professional, Scott has designed and worked on distributed systems of every imaginable size and shape. When he’s not in meetings, he enjoys writing Clojure code.
• Break (10 minutes)

Ravi Vagadia: From a Mess to a Mesh—Managing, Controlling, and Observing L7 Traffic in, out of, to, from, and Through Your K8s Clusters (30 minutes) - 8:00am ET | 12:00pm UTC/GMT | 5:30pm IST

• Are you rolling out Kubernetes for production apps and frustrated by overly complex networking? Do you have a requirement for zero-trust, end-to-end encryption, but you’re not sure where to start for your containerized apps? Have you already tested some service meshes and were flummoxed by their heavy-handed complexity? Don’t fear. Ravi Vagadia will show you how to get a handle on the application networking challenges introduced when moving from monolithic apps and top-of-rack networking to containerized adaptable apps and service meshes.
• Ravi Vagadia is a solutions engineer at NGINX (now part of F5), the engine delivering sites and applications for the modern web. Ravi’s passion for coding and building modern apps give him a strong edge when consulting for NGINX customers in Asia. He’s spent close to a decade in IT, specializing in software and app development, and has built his career on building and supporting apps from the ground up and deploying these apps in products that address the day-to-day needs of consumers and businesses. He initially joined F5 as part of its engineering services team. Ravi has a bachelor’s degree in computer applications and a master’s degree in science for information technology.

Melissa Houghton: JavaScript in the Cloud (30 minutes) - 8:30am ET | 12:30pm UTC/GMT | 6:00pm IST

• Traditionally JavaScript has been the language of the web, and it still is. But today it’s so much more. With the advent of server-side JavaScript and JavaScript support in major cloud platforms, JavaScript’s power increased dramatically. From building and maintaining to optimizing and deploying, the end-to-end development and delivery process is possible with JavaScript in the cloud. Join Melissa Houghton to learn how to take advantage of the tools, elasticity, and scalability offered by cloud platforms using a language you already know—JavaScript!—so you can create high-performing applications without managing the physical infrastructure.
• Melissa Houghton is a lead software engineer at Azenix and a Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies. Her work is focused on application development using Angular, .NET, and Azure, but she has a wide variety of skills and is always open to learning new things. Melissa is an advocate for women in tech with a passion for leadership, technology and giving back to the community. She frequents tech events, is an international conference speaker, and is an organizer of the DDD Melbourne conference, Melb ․NET meetup, and Microsoft AU’s New Breakpoint community. Melissa loves to travel; originally from California, she now lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Sam Newman: Closing Remarks (5 minutes) - 9:00am ET | 1:00pm UTC/GMT | 6:30pm IST

• Sam Newman closes out today’s event.

Upcoming Infrastructure & Ops Superstream events:

• Building Security into Your Development Lifecycle - September 28, 2021