Software Architecture Superstream: Software Architecture Patterns

Neal Ford: Introduction (5 minutes) - 8:00am PT | 11:00am ET | 4:00pm UTC/GMT

• Neal Ford welcomes you to the Software Architecture Superstream.

Chris Richardson: Microservices Patterns (45 minutes) - 8:05am PT | 11:05am ET | 4:05pm UTC/GMT

• The microservices architecture offers tremendous benefits, but it’s not a silver bullet. It also has some significant drawbacks. The microservices pattern language—a collection of patterns that solve architecture, design, development, and operational problems—enables software developers to apply the microservices architecture effectively. Chris Richardson offers an overview of the microservices architecture and examines the motivations for the pattern language, then takes you through the key patterns in the pattern language.
• Chris Richardson is a software architect and serial entrepreneur. A Java Champion and JavaOne Rock Star, he’s also the author of Microservices Patterns, a practical guide to developing and deploying production-quality microservices-based applications, and POJOs in Action, which describes how to build enterprise Java applications with frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. Chris was the founder of the original CloudFoundry.com, an early Java PaaS for Amazon EC2. He’s a recognized thought leader in microservices and speaks regularly at international conferences.
• Break (10 minutes)

Venkat Subramaniam: The Pathway from Requirements to Adopting Design Patterns and Architectural Patterns (45 minutes) - 9:00am PT | 12:00pm ET | 5:00pm UTC/GMT

• Among the many decisions you have to make when developing large-scale applications is selecting between several design patterns and architectural patterns. Making the right choices is critical to avoid complicating the system. Venkat Subramaniam compares architectural decisions and design decisions, shares a brief overview of design patterns and architectural patterns, and then outlines approaches that will help you successfully discover the right set of patterns to use.
• Venkat Subramaniam is the founder of Agile Developer, creator of Agilelearner.com, cofounder of the dev.next software conference, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable Agile practices on their software projects. He’s trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia and is a regularly invited speaker at several international conferences. He’s the author or coauthor of a number of technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity Award-winning Practices of an Agile Developer.
• Break (10 minutes)

Luca Mezzalira: Micro-frontends Anti-patterns (45 minutes) - 9:55am PT | 12:55pm ET | 5:55pm UTC/GMT

• Micro-frontends are a new frontend architecture heavily inspired by microservices, and many organizations are starting to leverage them in their systems. Luca Mezzalira has been working with micro-frontends for the past six years and has consulted many enterprise organizations worldwide on implementing this architecture pattern. Join him to hear some lessons learned—especially about the mistakes to avoid—as he discusses the anti-patterns he’s encountered along his journey and explains how to overcome them.
• Luca Mezzalira has been associated with the software industry since 2004, lending his expertise predominantly in the solution architecture field. He’s earned accolades for revolutionizing the scalability of frontend architectures with micro-frontends, from increasing the efficiency of workflows to delivering quality in products. Luca helped DAZN become a global OTT platform in just five years; now, as principal architect at AWS, he helps customers in the media and entertainment space deliver cost-effective and scalable cloud solutions. Luca is the author of Front-End Reactive Architectures and Building Micro-Frontends; he’s also spoken at over 150 webinars, summits, and conferences hosted by leading industry names such as O’Reilly, Google, Adobe, and AWS.
• Break (10 minutes)

Adrian Cockcroft: Architecting for Sustainability (50 minutes) - 10:50am PT | 1:50pm ET | 6:50pm UTC/GMT

• AWS is focused on efficiency in every aspect of its infrastructure, and builders can accelerate the sustainability of their workloads through optimization and informed architecture patterns. Join Adrian Cockcroft to dive deep into techniques recommended by the AWS Well-Architected Framework and discover how to reduce the energy and carbon impact of AWS architectures. You’ll learn about user patterns, software design, and AWS service considerations that organizations of any size can apply to their workloads.
• Adrian Cockcroft has had a long career working at the leading edge of technology and is fascinated by what happens next. After years spent at companies including Sun Microsystems, eBay, Netflix, and Battery Ventures, he joined AWS in 2016 to focus on the needs of cloud native and “all-in” customers. Now, as VP of sustainability architecture at Amazon, he’s developing and sharing best practices for sustainable product architectures and working with teams across AWS to support their own sustainability programs. He’s also the board observer for Amazon at the OS-Climate foundation. Adrian is a published author of four books, notably Sun Performance and Tuning (Prentice Hall, 1998), and has contributed forwards to several books including Ahead in the Cloud: Best Practices for Navigating the Future of Enterprise IT (2018).

Neal Ford: Closing Remarks (10 minutes) - 11:40am PT | 2:40pm ET | 7:40pm UTC/GMT

• Neal Ford closes out today’s event.

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