November 2020 will mark the release of .NET 5. In this session, Johnny will talk about what is new in the latest version of .NET and what the future will bring for the .NET platform in general.

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Everybody knows that we need a cache, but where exactly to place it? Inside your application or as a layer in front of it? In the container or outside the container? In the era of Cloud Native and Microservices these questions get even more complicated. In this session Rafal will present different architectural patterns for distributed caching: Embedded, Client-Server, (Kubernetes) Sidecar, and Reverse HTTP Proxy Caching.

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While “software is eating the world”, those who are able to best manage the huge mass of data will emerge out on the top.
The batch processing model has been faithfully serving us for decades. However, it might have reached the end of its usefulness for all but some very specific use-cases. As the pace of businesses increases, most of the time, decision makers prefer slightly wrong data sooner, than 100% accurate data later.

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We’ll see how this enables a shortcut between the raw data originally stored into a data lake, and the relational view consumed by the analysis applications.

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Developers love the idea of having safety nets when they work. The feeling that a stable framework, backed by top software companies and supported by community developers, will ensure they can’t go wrong. There is one excellent framework everybody forgets: the web browser.
Using modern web standards, we can add new features/powers into the browser in a snap. Is this too good to be true?

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Metaprogramming is one of the features that sets Scala 3 apart from other languages. We don’t only get “macros done right”, but a a couple of constructs that can be used depending on the scope and complexity of the task: inlines, typeclass derivation and “proper” macros (quoting & splicing).

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Over 50 years ago, Melvin Conway wrote an article identifying a correspondence between the structure of our organizations and the structure of the software we produce. We still talk about Conway’s Law today because of the fundamental truth of that observation. This talk goes beyond that article to examine why this happens, and how you can take advantage of it to make better software and better teams.

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In this talk, Lars acts as your tour guide in setting up a modern platform based on Kubernetes and related cloud-native technology on top of an IaaS-only cloud provider, like many in the EU are. Using WordPress as a motivating example, the talk moves effortlessly from networking services, persistent storage for files and relational data, all the way up to monitoring and continuous delivery of software.

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This session introduces a pluralistic approach to achieving Agility at scale, that is inspired by principles. It is informed by the theory and empirical evidence, and it escapes the 1-framework by-the-book prison. The approach presented avoids the shortcomings and the missteps we all well know of the recipes-based copy-paste approaches that are common nowadays. And it actually works.

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Luca Minudel

SmHarter Ltd, UK