GOTO Night: Microservices

We're teaming up with GOTO Conference to bring you the first ever Microservices Meetup in Cologne - featuring not one, not two, but three talks!

As the location is limited in space, we'll have to limit the participation to 25 (for now). First come first serve. And be sure to remove your RSVP in case you can't attend, so the people from the waitlist can attend.

Schedule:
18:00 Registration & Pizza
18:30 Short Intro
18:40 Dennis Traub
19:10 Short Break
19:20 Stefan Tilkov
19:50 Short Break
20:00 Dave Thomas
20:30 Ending with beers

Talks:

"Taming the Monolith - Are Microservices just an Implementation Detail?" by Dennis Traub

Abstract
Domain-Driven Design changed the way we reason about large software systems. Modern practices, tools and technologies like continuous delivery, NoSQL, and cloud-based virtualization allow the creation of fine-grained systems to solve the specific problems at hand. Having DDD in mind and technical expertise at our hands, with microservice architectures we can build complex systems that reflect our businesses' complex realities and are easy to change at the same time. This talk will show what DDD and microservice architectures have in common and how you can use both to create software systems that fit your domain.

Bio
Dennis is Lead Consultant at ThoughtWorks with two decades of experience as a full stack developer, consultant, and coach across a variety of domains and technologies. He's passionate about making software development as simple as possible while keeping the business goals in mind. His specialties are domain-­driven design and agile software development.

"Microservices: Awesome, as long as they are neither ‘micro’ nor ‘services" by Stefan Tilkov

Abstract

The concept of a microservices architecture hit the community with tremendous force, and immediately struck a nerve. But the name is unfortunate – some of the connotations it carries are not at all necessary to reap the benefits of this approach. In this talk, we will discuss the forces that are independent from the size and the kind of interface offered, and see how they can be applied to various different scenarios.

Bio
Stefan Tikov is a decent-frequency blogger, tweets at @stilkov and is a frequent speaker at conferences in Germany and abroad. He is the author of the book "REST und HTTP". Stefan also used to be lead SOA editor on InfoQ. Stefan has been involved in the design of large-scale, distributed systems for almost two decades, using a variety of technologies and tools ranging from C++ and CORBA over J2EE/Java EE and Web Services to REST and Ruby on Rails. Co-founder and principal consultant at innoQ, Stefan spends his time alternating between advising customers on new technologies and taking the blame from his co-workers for doing so.

"Microservices" by Dave Thomas

Abstract
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Bio
Dave Thomas is the Founder and Chairman of Bedarra Research Labs (BRL), which specializes in emerging software technologies and practices. BRL enables clients rapidly deploy innovative solutions using the latest practices and technologies. Dave is a popular, humorous, albeit opinionated international keynote speaker with an impressive breadth of business experience and technical depth. With a unique ability to see the future and translate research into competitive products, Dave was awarded ACM Distinguished Engineer for his contributions object technology that include IBM IDEs, virtual machines and the open source Eclipse foundation. Dave is a thought leader in Large Scale Lean and Agile Development and a founding director of the Agile Alliance. He maintains close links the R&D community and is an adjunct research professor at Queensland University of Technology in Australia and Carleton University in Canada. Dave serves on the program committees for many technology conferences and founder of the YOW! Australia conference.