Track: Sponsored Solutions Track III

10:35am - 11:25am

Actionable Continuous Delivery Metrics

High performance teams are defined by their ability to deliver software faster, with higher quality and reliability. A key ingredient is a Continuous Delivery process that allows you to deliver features to production seamlessly. Once you embrace Continuous Delivery, it is important to measure the effectiveness of your CD workflow.

If you are looking at increasing the deployment frequency of your applications, recovering from failures more quickly, or improving the cycle time of features to production, this talk discusses the metrics that help to improve your software delivery practice.

In this talk, Suzie Prince will cover:

The value of measuring and monitoring your CD pipeline What metrics matter when improving your path to production? We will go through important concepts like throughput, failure rate, mean time to recover, cycle time etc. A step to step guide to using metrics to improve your CD process. We will use examples to address common issues like low throughput, slow cycle time, high failure rate, high MTTR.

11:50am - 12:40pm

An Emerging Architecture Pattern for Agile Integration

The number of microservices running in enterprises increases daily. As a result, service composition, governance, security, and observability are becoming a challenge to implement and incorporate. A “cell-based” architecture is an approach that can be applied to current or desired development and technologies to address these issues. This technology-neutral approach helps cloud-native dev teams become more efficient, act in a more self-organized manner, and speed overall release times.

In this talk, Asanka will introduce the "cell-based" reference architecture, which is API-centric, cloud-native and microservices friendly. He will explain the role of APIs in the cell-based approach, as well as examine how real applications are built as cells. Asanka will explore the metrics and approaches that can be used to measure the effectiveness of the architecture and explore how organizations can implement the cell approach.

1:40pm - 2:30pm

Enabling ML with Apache Beam and Event Mesh

We'll talk about how you can enable cloud-based ML, fueled by events fired from across your enterprise (IoT, mobile devices, legacy apps, private cloud, public cloud), in real-time. We’ll introduce the concept of an event mesh (think service mesh for asynchronous, event-based interactions). And we’ll share two demos leveraging Apache Beam and Solace PubSub+ to show you how an event broker that supports multiple open standard protocols and APIs can make your life easier – assuming you’re a developer that needs apps to communicate over different protocols.

2:55pm - 3:45pm

Continuous Reliability

Every business going through organizational transformation to gain a competitive advantage faces the same challenge: how do we balance agility and stability? To solve for the agility part of this equation, many development and operations teams turn to continuous integration (CI) and continuous development/deployment (CD), however these practices often put stability at risk. Enter Continuous Reliability.

Continuous Reliability (CR) is a new framework that brings together automated code quality gates and contextual feedback loops within a CI/CD workflow to help organizations overcome the agility/stability paradox. CR can mean the difference between hoping your code might work in production, and actually knowing it will. This session will define CR for attendees and demonstrate how they can implement this practice within the context of their organization’s own agile practices.

4:10pm - 5:00pm

Reactive Cloud-Native Networking With RSocket

The vast majority of enterprises are moving to the cloud, but few are prepared for networking implications of cloud-native architectures. For developers, handling service discovery, fault tolerance, load balancing, caching and coordination over the network and across many services is the stuff of nightmares. For businesses, getting this wrong can be the cause of astronomical cloud costs and high-profile outages.

RSocket is an open-source network protocol developed in collaboration with Netflix, Facebook, Pivotal and others that was designed to handle the challenges of communication between complex networks of services both within the data center and over the internet – extending to mobile devices and browsers. In addition to ultra-low latency RPC and flexibility in the underlying transport layer, RSocket provides session resumption, application flow control and predictive load balancing to protect both client and server resources from being overwhelmed.

In this session, Ryland will discuss how Netifi is leveraging RSocket to simplify the way enterprises build and operate cloud-native applications, dramatically reducing operational overhead and speeding development velocity by allowing developers to focus on their product instead of their network infrastructure.

5:25pm - 6:15pm

Deterministic Global Database Consistency

Database concepts like linearizability and serializability sound abstract, but they can have real-world consequences. In this talk, we’ll look at consistency in the real world and how flaws can impact your applications. We’ll take a tour of FaunaDB’s globally consistent transaction pipeline and compare it to the alternative approach taken by Google Spanner.