Evolving your APIs, OpenTelemetry Tracing and IT Leadership
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On this evening we will talk about Evolving your APIs, OpenTelemetry Tracing and Modern IT Leadership. [The event is also listed here.]
18:00 Evolving your APIs – Nicolas Fränkel
19:00 Practical Introduction to OpenTelemetry Tracing – Nicolas Fränkel
20:00 Transformational IT Leadership – Benjamin Nothdurft
Evolving your APIs – Nicolas Fränkel
When you publish your first HTTP API, you’re more focused on short-term issues than planning for the future. However, chances are you’ll be successful, and you’ll “hit the wall”. How do you evolve your API without breaking the contract with your existing users? In this talk, I’ll first show you some tips and tricks to achieve that: moving your endpoints, deprecating them, monitoring who’s using them, and letting users know about the new endpoints. The talk is demo-based, and I’ll use the Apache APISIX project for it.
Practical Introduction to Opentelemetry Tracing – Nicolas Fränkel
Elevator Pitch: Between migrating to micro services and using a Rule Engine, Serverless is a pragmatic approach that allows deploying business capabilities that change often.
Abstract: Microservices are ubiquitous. However, most companies that implement microservices do not reap their full benefits - at best. At worst, it’s an epic failure. There are reasons for microservices: independent deployment of business capabilities. However, the unspoken assumption is that you need to deploy all capabilities all the time. My experience has shown me that it’s plain wrong. Some capabilities need frequent deployment, while some are much more stable. In “the past”, we used Rule Engines to allow updating business rules without deployment. While it solved the problem, this approach had issues. Between introducing a Rule Engine and migrating your complete system to microservices, I believe that there’s a middle path, and that this path is Function-as-a-Service. In this talk, I’ll detail every point I’ve made above, and show how one can use Serverless to pragmatically design a system that allows deploying as often as you need.
Transformational IT Leadership – Benjamin Nothdurft
You have introduced Microservices, Serverless & Cloud Native, but is your leadership model up to speed with all these bleeding-edge technologies? Have you thought about leadership models as deeply as you did about your latest framework introduction? Transformational leadership to the rescue!
No matter if you are a (senior) developer, architect, or team leader - often when you are a person with high competence regarding a problem, you need to guide people. But how? Transformational leadership is a set of behaviors everyone can learn and apply. 35 years of scientific research in behavioral and economic science substantiate that transformational leadership has positive effects on three levels.
- Organizations: have a higher ability to compete, better financial results, and more satisfied customers
- Teams: are more creative, innovative and perform better
- Individuals: have higher job satisfaction, deeper engagement, and severe motivation.
In this session, we will examine the concept of transformational leadership, measurements, and evolutionary process to transform your leadership model from laissez-faire, over transactional management to the holy grail of transformational leadership.
At the end of the talk, you will have learned not just about the benefits but rather the set of behaviors you can apply and the individual roadmap to becoming a transformational leader – for yourself, your team, and your organizations.
Speaker
Nicolas Fränkel
Developer Advocate with 15+ years experience consulting for many different customers, in a wide range of contexts (such as telecoms, banking, insurances, large retail and public sector). Usually working on Java/Java EE and Spring technologies, but with focused interests like Rich Internet Applications, Testing, CI/CD and DevOps. Also double as a trainer and triples as a book author.
https://blog.frankel.ch/me/
https://blog.frankel.ch/speaking/
Benjamin Nothdurft
Benjamin works as an independent consultant in the IT industry. In the past, he was at the forefront of many initiatives leading to innovation while generating new ideas for established markets. No matter if groundbreaking conference series, plenty of meetups, consulting offices, and even big parties with 2000+ guests. Every time, re-pioneering the future is the fuel in his veins! Coming back from a half year in Silicon Valley in 2023, the passion for new disruptive projects is on fire.
Evolving your APIs, OpenTelemetry Tracing and IT Leadership