Schedule 2021

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Sat,
May
18

Tue,
May
18

EDT(local time)
TRACK Architectures You've Always Wondered About Charles Humble - Container Solutions TRACK WebAssembly Throughout the Stack Colin Eberhardt - Scott Logic TRACK Observability and Understandability in Production Tammy Bryant Butow - Gremlin
09:00AM
KEYNOTE 09:00AM - 09:50AM Complex Systems: Microservices and Humans Katharina Probst - Google
10:00AM
Session + Live Q&A INTERVIEW AVAILABLE 10:00AM - 10:40AM BBC Online: Architecting for Scale with the Cloud and Serverless Matthew Clark - BBC
Session + Live Q&A INTERVIEW AVAILABLE 10:00AM - 10:40AM WASI: A New Kind of System Interface Lin Clark - Fastly
Session + Live Q&A INTERVIEW AVAILABLE 10:00AM - 10:40AM More More More! Why the Most Resilient Companies Want More Incidents John Egan - Kintaba
Break or Hangout with speaker Informal AMA session and opportunity to ask questions, please come with your camera on. Please note, this session is unstructured and unfacilitated.
11:00AM
Session + Live Q&A INTERVIEW AVAILABLE 11:00AM - 11:40AM Optimizing Your Web Performance: Separating the Signals from the Noise Carl Anderson - Trainline
PANEL DISCUSSION + Live Q&A 11:00AM - 11:40AM Experimenting with WASM for future audience experiences in BBC iPlayer Tim Pearce - BBC
Session + Live Q&A 11:00AM - 11:40AM Observing and Understanding Failures: SRE Apprentices Tammy Bryant Butow - Gremlin
Break or Hangout with speaker Informal AMA session and opportunity to ask questions, please come with your camera on. Please note, this session is unstructured and unfacilitated.
12:00PM
Session + Live Q&A 12:00PM - 12:40PM Building and Scaling a Control Plane for 1000s of Kafka Clusters Gwen Shapira - Confluent
Vivek Sharma - Confluent
PANEL DISCUSSION + Live Q&A 12:00PM - 12:40PM Wasm in the Wild West: A Practical Application Tale Taylor Thomas - Microsoft
Matt Butcher - Microsoft
Session + Live Q&A 12:00PM - 12:40PM Resources & Transactions: A Fundamental Duality in Observability Ben Sigelman - LightStep
Break or Hangout with speaker Informal AMA session and opportunity to ask questions, please come with your camera on. Please note, this session is unstructured and unfacilitated.
01:00PM
PANEL DISCUSSION + Live Q&A 01:00PM - 01:40PM Panel: Event Driven Architectures of Scale Wes Reisz - Thoughtworks
Matthew Clark - BBC
Gwen Shapira - Confluent
Ian Thomas - Flutter Entertainment
PANEL DISCUSSION + Live Q&A 01:00PM - 01:40PM Panel: WebAssembly - the Past, Present and Future Aaron Turner - Fastly
Taylor Thomas - Microsoft
Matt Butcher - Microsoft
PANEL DISCUSSION + Live Q&A 01:00PM - 01:40PM Panel: Observability and Understandability Jason Yee - Gremlin
John Egan - Kintaba
Ben Sigelman - LightStep
Break or Hangout with speaker Informal AMA session and opportunity to ask questions, please come with your camera on. Please note, this session is unstructured and unfacilitated.
02:00PM
02:00PM - 02:45PM Applications Architecture Considerations for Distributed Systems Jim Walker - Cockroach Labs
02:00PM - 02:45PM Devving on the Edge Ezra Stevens - LaunchDarkly
02:00PM - 02:45PM Quarkus Magic: Code Manipulation with Quarkus Extensions Fabian Stäber - Instana
03:00PM
03:00PM - 03:45PM Architectural Transformation Journey of Site24x7 Srinivasa Raghavan Santhanam - Site24x7
03:00PM - 03:45PM AOT or JIT: Fast Startup or Fast Code? Simon Ritter - Azul

Sun,
May
19

Wed,
May
19

EDT(local time)
TRACK Current and Future Java and JVM languages Ix-chel Ruiz - jFrog TRACK Modern CS in the Real World Werner Schuster - Wolfram TRACK Running Effective Remote Teams Emma Hogbin - United Nations OCHA
09:10AM
Session + Live Q&A INTERVIEW AVAILABLE 09:10AM - 09:50AM Techniques for Maintainable Quarkus Applications Ana Maria Mihalceanu - IBM
Session + Live Q&A 09:10AM - 09:50AM Differentiable Programming in Kotlin Irene Dea - Facebook
Session + Live Q&A INTERVIEW AVAILABLE 09:10AM - 09:50AM Balancing Synchronous and Asynchronous Communication in Virtual Teams Tammy Bjelland - Workplaceless
Break or Hangout with speaker Informal AMA session and opportunity to ask questions, please come with your camera on. Please note, this session is unstructured and unfacilitated.
10:10AM
Session + Live Q&A INTERVIEW AVAILABLE 10:10AM - 10:50AM Keeping Pace with Java Marc Hoffmann - mtrail
Session + Live Q&A INTERVIEW AVAILABLE 10:10AM - 10:50AM Co-Designing Raft + Thread-per-Core Execution Model for the Kafka-API Alex Gallego - Vectorized
Session + Live Q&A 10:10AM - 10:50AM Hybrid-Remote Done Right: Evaluate the Remote Employee Experience Kaleem Clarkson - Blend me, Inc
Break or Hangout with speaker Informal AMA session and opportunity to ask questions, please come with your camera on. Please note, this session is unstructured and unfacilitated.
11:10AM
Session + Live Q&A 11:10AM - 11:50AM Kotlin is *Way* More Than Just Android Justin Lee - Red Hat
Session + Live Q&A 11:10AM - 11:50AM Getting The Most Out Of Sandboxing Chris Palmer - Google
Session + Live Q&A 11:10AM - 11:50AM Remotely Operated: Managing Scattered Teams Anjuan Simmons - Jannua
Break or Hangout with speaker Informal AMA session and opportunity to ask questions, please come with your camera on. Please note, this session is unstructured and unfacilitated.
12:10PM
PANEL DISCUSSION + Live Q&A 12:10PM - 12:50PM Java & JVM Panel Simone Bordet - Webtide LLC
Cay Horstmann - PFH Private University of Applied Sciences
PANEL DISCUSSION + Live Q&A 12:10PM - 12:50PM Panel: Future of Language Support for ML Jendrik Jördening - Nooxit
Irene Dea - Facebook
Alanna Tempest - Facebook
PANEL DISCUSSION + Live Q&A 12:10PM - 12:50PM Remote Teams Panel Kaleem Clarkson - Blend me, Inc
Anjuan Simmons - Jannua
Tammy Bjelland - Workplaceless
Break or Hangout with speaker Informal AMA session and opportunity to ask questions, please come with your camera on. Please note, this session is unstructured and unfacilitated.

Mon,
May
20

Thu,
May
20

EDT(local time)
TRACK Microservice - The First Decade Nicki Watt - OpenCredo TRACK Building Secure Systems Isaac Potoczny-Jones - Tozny Security TRACK Unconference Sessions Amr Elssamadisy - Eliassen Group
09:10AM
Session + Live Q&A 09:10AM - 09:50AM Unwinding a Decade of Assumptions - Architecting New Experiences Cole Turner - Netflix
Session + Live Q&A 09:10AM - 09:50AM Securing the Development & Supply Chain of Open Source Software (OSS) David Wheeler - Linux Foundation
UNCONFERENCE + Live Q&A 09:10AM - 10:40AM Pragmatic Approaches to Performance: Bring Your Challenges Amr Elssamadisy - Eliassen Group
Using Open Space Technology
Break or Hangout with speaker Informal AMA session and opportunity to ask questions, please come with your camera on. Please note, this session is unstructured and unfacilitated.
10:10AM
Session + Live Q&A 10:10AM - 10:50AM The Human Side of Airbnb’s Microservice Architecture Jessica Tai - Airbnb
Session + Live Q&A 10:10AM - 10:50AM Depending On If I Had Coffee Or Not Your Application May Be High Risk Shannon Morrison - Netflix
Scott Behrens - Netflix
Break or Hangout with speaker Informal AMA session and opportunity to ask questions, please come with your camera on. Please note, this session is unstructured and unfacilitated.
11:10AM
Session + Live Q&A 11:10AM - 11:50AM Minimizing Design Time Coupling in a Microservice Architecture Chris Richardson
Session + Live Q&A 11:10AM - 11:50AM Application-Layer Encryption Basics for Developers Isaac Potoczny-Jones - Tozny Security
UNCONFERENCE + Live Q&A 11:10AM - 12:40PM Architecting for Resilience: Bring Your Challenges Amr Elssamadisy - Eliassen Group
Using Open Space Technology
Break or Hangout with speaker Informal AMA session and opportunity to ask questions, please come with your camera on. Please note, this session is unstructured and unfacilitated.
12:10PM
PANEL DISCUSSION + Live Q&A 12:10PM - 12:50PM Panel: What Have We Learned Over the Last Decade of Microservices? Chris Richardson
James Lewis - ThoughtWorks
Katie Gamanji - Cloud Native Computing Foundation
PANEL DISCUSSION + Live Q&A 12:10PM - 12:50PM Panel: Secure Systems Shannon Morrison - Netflix
Michael Fagan - National Institute of Standards and Technology
Matt Jones - Wind River
Break or Hangout with speaker Informal AMA session and opportunity to ask questions, please come with your camera on. Please note, this session is unstructured and unfacilitated.
01:10PM
01:10PM - 01:55PM Database Performance Monitoring in a World of Microservices Markus Strauss - SolarWinds
02:10PM
02:10PM - 02:55PM Multi-Cloud Microservices with Fauna Rob Sutter - Fauna

Sat,
May
25

Tue,
May
25

EDT(local time)
TRACK System Level Programming Languages Nell Shamrell-Harrington - Microsoft TRACK Accelerating APIs and Edge Computing Sergey Fedorov - Netflix TRACK Architecting a Modern Financial Institution Alex Porcelli - RedHat
09:10AM
Session + Live Q&A INTERVIEW AVAILABLE 09:10AM - 09:50AM The Rust Borrow Checker—A Deep Dive Nell Shamrell-Harrington - Microsoft
Session + Live Q&A 09:10AM - 09:50AM How Do You Distribute Your Database Over Hundreds of Edge Locations? Erwin van der Koogh - Cloudfare
Session + Live Q&A INTERVIEW AVAILABLE 09:10AM - 09:50AM Architecting Software for Leverage Lucas Cavalcanti - Nubank
Break or Hangout with speaker Informal AMA session and opportunity to ask questions, please come with your camera on. Please note, this session is unstructured and unfacilitated.
10:10AM
Session + Live Q&A 10:10AM - 10:50AM Systems Programmers Can Have Nice Things Ryan Levick - Microsoft
Session + Live Q&A INTERVIEW AVAILABLE 10:10AM - 10:50AM Beating the Speed of Light with Intelligent Request Routing Sergey Fedorov - Netflix
PANEL DISCUSSION + Live Q&A 10:10AM - 10:50AM This Is What a Large-Scale Cloud Adoption Program Looks Like Dio Rettori - JPMorgan Chase & Co
Break or Hangout with speaker Informal AMA session and opportunity to ask questions, please come with your camera on. Please note, this session is unstructured and unfacilitated.
11:10AM
Session + Live Q&A INTERVIEW AVAILABLE 11:10AM - 11:50AM Reversible Debugging with RR Felix Klock - Amazon Web Services
Session + Live Q&A 11:10AM - 11:50AM How Facebook Is Bringing QUIC to Billions Matt Joras - Facebook
Yang Chi - Facebook
Session + Live Q&A 11:10AM - 11:50AM From Batch to Streams: Building Value from Data In-Motion Ricardo Ferreira - Elastic
Break or Hangout with speaker Informal AMA session and opportunity to ask questions, please come with your camera on. Please note, this session is unstructured and unfacilitated.
12:10PM
PANEL DISCUSSION + Live Q&A 12:10PM - 12:50PM System Level Programming Languages Panel Bryan Cantrill - Oxide Computer
Laura Abbott - Oxide Computer
Cliff Biffle - Oxide Computer
PANEL DISCUSSION + Live Q&A 12:10PM - 12:50PM Panel: Living on the Edge Jose Nino - Lyft
Rita Kozlov - Cloudflare Workers
Ivan Ivanov - Netflix
PANEL DISCUSSION + Live Q&A 12:10PM - 12:50PM Panel: Challenges & Opportunities of the Modern Financial Institutions Lucas Cavalcanti - Nubank
Dio Rettori - JPMorgan Chase & Co
Camilla Crispim - ThoughtWorks
Break or Hangout with speaker Informal AMA session and opportunity to ask questions, please come with your camera on. Please note, this session is unstructured and unfacilitated.
01:10PM
01:10PM - 01:55PM Best Practices for Distributed API Management Karthik Krishnaswamy - NGINX
01:10PM - 01:55PM Data Has a Half-Life Neil Stevenson - Hazelcast
02:10PM
02:10PM - 02:55PM Apollo Federation Deep Dive - Building Your Data Graph with Workbench Michael Watson - ApolloGraphQL

Sun,
May
26

Wed,
May
26

EDT(local time)
TRACK Optimizing Your Organization for Speed Randy Shoup - eBay TRACK State of ML/AI Union Jendrik Jördening - Nooxit TRACK Mechanical Sympathy - Developing for Modern Hardware Todd Montgomery - StoneTor, LLC
09:10AM
Session + Live Q&A 09:10AM - 09:50AM Business and Technical Agility with Team Topologies Matthew Skelton - Conflux
Manuel Pais - Team Topologies Academy
Session + Live Q&A 09:10AM - 09:50AM Developing and Deploying ML Across Teams with MLOps Automation Tool Fabio Grätz, Ph.D. - Merantix
Thomas Wollmann - Merantix
Session + Live Q&A 09:10AM - 09:50AM One Ring -3 To Secure Them All: Computing with Hardware Enclaves Aaron Bedra - DRW
Break or Hangout with speaker Informal AMA session and opportunity to ask questions, please come with your camera on. Please note, this session is unstructured and unfacilitated.
10:10AM
Session + Live Q&A 10:10AM - 10:50AM The Continuous Integration Approach to Engineering Leadership Lena Reinhard - CircleCI
Session + Live Q&A 10:10AM - 10:50AM Unified MLOps: Feature Stores and Model Deployment Monte Zweben - Splice Machine
Session + Live Q&A INTERVIEW AVAILABLE 10:10AM - 10:50AM Create From Anywhere: The Netflix Workstations Story Michelle Brenner - Netflix
Break or Hangout with speaker Informal AMA session and opportunity to ask questions, please come with your camera on. Please note, this session is unstructured and unfacilitated.
11:10AM
Session + Live Q&A 11:10AM - 11:50AM Engineering Your Organization: Services, Platforms, and Communities Randy Shoup - eBay
Session + Live Q&A 11:10AM - 11:50AM MLOps: The Most Important Piece in the Enterprise AI Puzzle Francesca Lazzeri - Microsoft
Session + Live Q&A INTERVIEW AVAILABLE 11:10AM - 11:50AM Beyond POSIX - Adventures in Alternative Networking APIs Michael Barker - Ephemeris Consulting Ltd
Break or Hangout with speaker Informal AMA session and opportunity to ask questions, please come with your camera on. Please note, this session is unstructured and unfacilitated.
12:10PM
PANEL DISCUSSION + Live Q&A 12:10PM - 12:50PM Leading Organizational Change to Improve Flow Panel Sarah Wells
Sangeeta Narayanan - Netflix
Nick Caldwell - Twitter
PANEL DISCUSSION + Live Q&A 12:10PM - 12:50PM Iterating on Models on Operating ML Monte Zweben - Splice Machine
Roland Meertens - InfoQ
PANEL DISCUSSION + Live Q&A 12:10PM - 12:50PM Mechanical Sympathy Panel Howard Chu - Symas Corp
Michael Barker - Ephemeris Consulting Ltd
Aaron Bedra - DRW
Break or Hangout with speaker Informal AMA session and opportunity to ask questions, please come with your camera on. Please note, this session is unstructured and unfacilitated.
01:10PM
01:10PM - 01:55PM DevOps & Software Delivery in a Global Pandemic Jeremy Meiss - CircleCI
01:10PM - 01:55PM Automation: The Next Generation Mandi Walls - PagerDuty
02:10PM
02:10PM - 02:55PM Exploring the Next Generation of Developers Sydney Lai - Outsystems
02:10PM - 02:55PM Making Machine Learning “Magically Work” for Diverse Datasets Karlo Zatylny - SolarWinds

Mon,
May
27

Thu,
May
27

EDT(local time)
TRACK Architecting for Resilience Dio Rettori - JPMorgan Chase & Co TRACK Modern Data Pipelines and Data Mesh Fabiane Nardon - Tail - Target TRACK Unconference Sessions Amr Elssamadisy - Eliassen Group
09:10AM
Session + Live Q&A 09:10AM - 09:50AM Incident Analysis: Your Organization's Secret Weapon Nora Jones - Jeli
Session + Live Q&A INTERVIEW AVAILABLE 09:10AM - 09:50AM Data Mesh in the Real World: Lessons Learnt From the Financial Markets Tareq Abedrabbo - CMC Markets
UNCONFERENCE + Live Q&A 09:10AM - 10:40AM Adopting Microservices: Bring Your Challenges Amr Elssamadisy - Eliassen Group
Using Open Space Technology
Break or Hangout with speaker Informal AMA session and opportunity to ask questions, please come with your camera on. Please note, this session is unstructured and unfacilitated.
10:10AM
Session + Live Q&A INTERVIEW AVAILABLE 10:10AM - 10:50AM Resilience in Supply Chain Security Dan Lorenc - Google
Session + Live Q&A INTERVIEW AVAILABLE 10:10AM - 10:50AM Robust Foundation for Data Pipelines at Scale - Lessons From Netflix Jun He - Netflix
Harrington Joseph - Netflix
Break or Hangout with speaker Informal AMA session and opportunity to ask questions, please come with your camera on. Please note, this session is unstructured and unfacilitated.
11:10AM
Session + Live Q&A 11:10AM - 11:50AM Making Applications Resilient With a Smart Application Aware Network Varun Talwar - Tetrate
Session + Live Q&A 11:10AM - 11:50AM Data Mesh: An Architectural Deep Dive Zhamak Dehghani - ThoughtWorks
UNCONFERENCE + Live Q&A 11:10AM - 12:40PM Real-world ML/AI: Bring Your Challenges Amr Elssamadisy - Eliassen Group
Using Open Space Technology
Break or Hangout with speaker Informal AMA session and opportunity to ask questions, please come with your camera on. Please note, this session is unstructured and unfacilitated.
12:10PM
PANEL DISCUSSION + Live Q&A 12:10PM - 12:50PM Architecting for Resilience Panel Nora Jones - Jeli
Dan Lorenc - Google
Varun Talwar - Tetrate
PANEL DISCUSSION + Live Q&A 12:10PM - 12:50PM Data Pipelines & Data Mesh: Where We Are and How the Future Looks Like Zhamak Dehghani - ThoughtWorks
Tareq Abedrabbo - CMC Markets
Jacek Laskowski
Break or Hangout with speaker Informal AMA session and opportunity to ask questions, please come with your camera on. Please note, this session is unstructured and unfacilitated.
01:10PM
01:10PM - 01:55PM Finding Harmony: Resilient Systems and Compensatory Growth Jason Yee - Gremlin
01:10PM - 01:55PM Fast & Fresh: Why Modern Applications Need New Analytics Architecture Rachel Pedreschi - Imply
02:10PM
02:10PM - 02:55PM Using Generic Mitigations and Playbooks as Code to Improve Reliability Leonid Belkind - StackPulse
02:10PM - 02:55PM A Governed Data Mesh Needs (Open) Metadata Ferd Scheepers - ING