DMS May - Adrian Trenaman:SVP Engineering & Chris Chedgey Co-Founder & CEO
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DMS - May 2018.
First Guest Speaker:
Adrian Trenaman
SVP Engineering @HBC, Gilt & Committer Apache Karaf
As SVP Engineering, HBC Digital, Ade leads the engineering and infrastructure teams for Gilt in New York and Dublin. He is an experienced, outspoken software engineer, communicator and leader with over 20 years of experience working with teams throughout Europe, US and Asia in diverse industries such as financial services, telecoms, retail, and manufacturing.
Talk : Lambda Architectures: a Snapshot, a Stream, & a Bunch of Deltas
We all got so excited about breaking apart our monoliths and liberating our microservices. At HBC Tech, our work on luxury e-commerce experiences across gilt.com, saks.com, lordandtaylor.com, thebay.com and saksoff5th.com shows us that unconstrained, organic growth of microservice architectures can lead to a system with high numbers of inter-service dependencies (some of them hidden!), and deep call stacks. We asked ourselves the question: “how can we architect, build and run our services resiliently and at scale so that they can respond to requests without any immediate downstream dependencies?”
In this talk I’ll give examples of these architectures in practice in our product, pricing, inventory and search services, the technology choices that have stuck: AWS Kinesis, AWS S3, AWS Lambda, Elasticache, an
d Calatrava. I’ll discuss how we’re making our way towards adopting Kafka as our backbone streaming implementation. And, I’ll show how we’ve begun to apply the techniques not just internally but also with external third-party vendors to keep our runtime dependencies low.
Second Guest Speaker :
The Speaker - Chris Chedgey Co-Founder & CEO at Structure101
Chris Chedgey is co-founder, product designer, and developer at Structure101. Chris has also worked on large military and aerospace systems in Europe and Canada. He has spoken at many user groups and conferences including Oredev, JavaOne, JAX, Javaland, 33rd Degree, JFocus, and Devoxx.
Title : Bridging the divide between architecture and code
Static diagrams on wikis and white-boards don’t help programmers to understand how the code they’re working on right now relates to the architecture.
This is a huge problem! It is individual lines of code that make or break an architecture, and architecture should help teams develop a simpler, more flexible codebase, faster.
Worse, invisible structures that emerge from thousands of inter-dependent lines of code become increasingly complex and fight against development.
“Structure101 Workspace” – just announced - provides a live visualization, inside the IDE, of the detailed code the programmer is working on, in the context of the overall architecture, and validates conformance as the code is edited.
The talk explains how this can help to rein in emergent structures and gradually transform them into a cogent, defined architecture that actively helps developers as they toil at the code-face.
AGENDA:
18:30 – Doors Open / Networking / Grab a Drink
19:00 – START
19:05 – Intro to first guest speaker
19:45 - Q&A available to speaker
20:00 - Drinks, Food & networking !
20:15 : Second Guest Speaker
20:45 - Q&A available to speaker
www.voxgig.com will be hosting an after event drink in the sandymounthotel.ie
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IMPORTANT:
Please note that Meetup.com is incorrectly displaying the location on their map. The location is here:
Gilt Groupe, 2 Shelbourne Buildings, Crampton Avenue, Shelbourne Road, Dublin 4 · Dublin (circled above).
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DMS May - Adrian Trenaman:SVP Engineering & Chris Chedgey Co-Founder & CEO