Presentation: Microservices: Patterns and Practices Panel

Randy is a 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley, and has worked as a senior technology leader and executive at companies ranging from small startups, to mid-sized places, to eBay and Google. Randy is currently VP Engineering at WeWork in San Francisco. He is particularly passionate about the nexus of culture, technology, and organization.

Roopa Tangirala is an experienced engineering leader with extensive background in databases, be it distributed or relational. She leads the Cloud Database Engineering team at Netflix, responsible for cloud persistent run-time stores for Netflix, ensuring data availability, durability, and scalability to meet the growing business needs. The team specialises in providing polyglot persistence as a service which includes cassandra, elasticsearch, dynomite, Mysql etc.

Rafael Schloming is Co-founder and Chief Architect of Datawire. He is a globally recognized expert on messaging and distributed systems and a spec author of the AMQP specification. Previously, Rafael was a principal software engineer at Red Hat. Rafael has a B.S. in computer science from MIT.

Chris Richardson is a developer and architect. He is a Java Champion and the author of POJOs in Action, which describes how to build enterprise Java applications with frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. Chris was also the founder of the original CloudFoundry.com, an early Java PaaS for Amazon EC2. He consults with organizations to improve how they develop and deploy applications and is working on his third startup. @crichardson