We are excited to announce our next online meetup, which will be co-hosted with the Chicago Java Users Group (CJUG). Join us as we welcome our special guest from Germany: Benjamin Nothdurft

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The Power of Event Storming: From a Pile of Sticky Notes to a Domain-Driven Design Microservices Architecture

ABSTRACT:

One of the main challenges each company faces is to come up with processes that create business value and a revenue stream for its employees. In the past many technical approaches often have led to expensive trial and error efforts including rewriting existing code bases.

Meet Event Storming. It is a lightweight, rapid and flexible workshop method for everyone that is using sticky notes in various colours for collaborative exploration of your complex business domains – layer by layer. Aligned with Domain-Driven Design working in an iterative manner helps the various stakeholders (product owners, scrum masters and software developers) to not only derive events, commands, aggregates, domain models and bounded contexts but also figure out issues, hot spots and chances for continuous improvement.

The big picture modeling of Event Storming leads to a coherent and comprehensible Domain-Driven Design (including ubiquitous language, strategic and tactical design tools) that may easily be translated into various Microservices with a high cohesion while assessing the health of existing systems, exploring new business models, envisioning new services and creating a clean and maintainable software architecture.

At the end of this session you will be able to recognize the connection between the business modeling method and your software architecture design. You will also be able to apply fundamental DDD principles on how to tailor systems from initial idea to code base in an enjoyable format with your colleagues – effectively and efficiently.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Benjamin Nothdurft (@DataDuke)

Benjamin is an Oracle Groundbreaker, works as technical lead for cloud technologies and branch manager at codecentric in Germany, speaks regularly at international conferences and loves to teach at several universities. He focuses on Microservices, Domain-Driven Design as well as the Java and Container ecosystems while pushing Software Craftsmanship and Agile Practices to the next level. As passionate software crafter he also organized over 100 IT events, big conference with thousand of visitors and multi-day hackathons in the past years.

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AGENDA (US-CDT / GMT-5):

11:50am Door Opens
12:00 - 12:05pm Intro and Announcement
12:05 - 1:05pm Benjamin's presentation
1:05 - 1:20pm Q&A
1:20pm - 1:30pm Open for social networking