Strategic Monoliths & Microservices
Explore purposeful architecture, event-driven systems, and strategic approaches to monoliths and microservices. Learn how to drive innovation and resilience in software development.
Architecting for Scale
Explore best practices for scaling software architecture, including risk management, microservices, and continuous releases. Learn from real-life experiences to build robust, scalable systems.
Spring Cloud Gateway - Resilience and Security
Explore Spring Cloud Gateway for resilient, secure microservices. Learn routing, circuit breakers, retries, authentication, and observability to enhance your API architecture.
Service Meshes - Istio, Linkerd - or No Mesh at All?
Explore service meshes like Istio and Linkerd, their benefits for microservices, and potential drawbacks. Learn when to use them and how they impact observability, routing, resilience, and security in distributed systems.
Kafka as a Platform - The Ecosystem from the Ground Up
Comprehensive exploration of Apache Kafka's ecosystem, covering core concepts, architecture, and advanced features like stream processing APIs, with practical demonstrations and industry insights.
The Past, Present and Future of Cloud Native API Gateways
Explore the evolution of cloud-native API gateways, their challenges in Kubernetes, and strategies for edge computing. Gain insights into microservices architecture and modern API management.
Automating Processes in Modern Architectures
Explore modern process automation in microservices and event-driven architectures. Learn strategies for integrating components, implementing end-to-end processes, and addressing challenges in contemporary software design.
Getting Started with Service Mesh
Explore service mesh concepts, features, and implementation strategies with experts Hanna Prinz and Eberhard Wolff. Learn when to use service mesh and how to choose the right solution for your microservices architecture.
GraphQL, gRPC and REST, Oh My! A Method for Unified API Design
Explore a unified approach to API design, covering GraphQL, gRPC, and REST. Learn strategies for creating flexible, scalable APIs that can adapt to diverse requirements and evolving ecosystems.
Where We're Going, We Don't Need Servers!
Explore the synergy between microservices and serverless, cutting through hype to understand their true potential for enhancing productivity and revolutionizing software development.
Cloud Native Communication Patterns with gRPC
Explore gRPC's efficiency in microservices communication, covering key concepts like service definition, streaming, interceptors, and security. Learn how gRPC compares to REST and GraphQL for cloud-native applications.
Modern Software Practices in a Legacy System
Explore modernizing legacy systems, open-source in government, and innovative software practices. Learn about domain-driven design, microservices, data organization, and building developer culture in large-scale projects.
Dashing Off a Dashboard
Live-coding session demonstrating real-time dashboard creation using KSQL, Python, and JavaScript. Showcases rapid development of KPI visualization tools for organizations or personal projects.
Event Modeling
Discover Event Modeling: a powerful technique for describing information systems. Learn its applications, benefits, and how it revolutionizes project management and system design.
Cloud Native Spring in Action
Explore cloud native Spring development, covering microservices, resilience, Kubernetes deployment, and GitOps. Learn best practices for building and managing modern, scalable applications in the cloud.
The Resilience Patterns Your Microservices Teams Should Know
Explore essential resilience patterns for microservices, including timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, and bulkhead patterns, to build reliable and scalable distributed systems.
Building That Glorious Monolith and Carving It Too
Explore monolith architecture benefits, patterns for maintainability, and techniques for eventual microservice transition. Learn to build scalable, organized systems using Domain Driven Design and API design.
Understanding Microservices - A Guide for the Monolithic Developer
Comprehensive guide for monolithic developers transitioning to microservices architecture, covering key concepts, terminology, and practical implementation using ASP.NET 6 with the Tacky Tacos project.
Top 5 Techniques for Building the Worst Microservice System Ever
Humorous exploration of common microservice pitfalls, offering insights on scalability, reliability, and autonomy through counterintuitive "worst practices" in distributed systems architecture.
Don't Build a Distributed Monolith - How to Avoid Doing Microservices Wrong
Learn strategies to avoid common pitfalls in microservices architecture, preventing the creation of inefficient "distributed monoliths" and ensuring optimal system design and performance.
Evolving Your Containerized REST Based Microservices to Adapt to EDA
Learn to evolve containerized REST microservices into event-driven architectures using AWS services. Discover how to integrate existing workloads with serverless solutions for improved scalability and efficiency.