ETE 2015

Philly ETE 2015 #22 – Michael Toppa – Agile Contracts for Software Consultants

You’re ready to go with all the best Agile practices: you’ll develop incrementally and iteratively, you’ll have sprints and retrospectives, and you can’t wait to tell your clients about your velocity and show them your burndown charts. But all of your prospective clients are telling you they want firm quotes, and contracts with detailed specifications and delivery dates. How do you convince them a traditional contract is actually riskier than they think, and persuade them to instead sign an Agile (time and materials) contract?

Philly ETE 2015 #21 – Aaron Bedra – Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots: Bot Swatting Like the Pros

Join Aaron as he explores ways to identify and deal with bad robots. He will show you what to look for, how to sort good bots from bad, and what to do with the information once you have it. It will help you deal more efficiently with scrapers, crawlers, scanners, fraudsters, and general malicious activity on your systems and gain some much needed confidence and visibility into the types of traffic you actually get on a day to day basis.

Philly ETE 2015 #20 – Svetlana Isakova – Kotlin on Android

In this session we are going to talk a bit why JetBrains sees the potential in Kotlin comparing to other JVM languages. Then we’ll see how certain language constructs can be used to make Android more enjoyable. Also we’ll look at a DSL for type-safe dynamic layouts and a simple extension plugin that helps to avoid writing ‘findViewById()’ all the time.

Philly ETE 2015 #19 – Chris Richardson – Developing Event-Driven Microservices with Event Sourcing and CQRS

Modern, cloud-native applications typically use a microservices architecture in conjunction with NoSQL and/or sharded relational databases. However, in order to successfully use this approach you need to solve some distributed data management problems including how to maintain consistency between multiple databases without using 2PC.

Philly ETE 2015 #18 – Rebecca Wirfs-Brock – Why We Need Architects (and Architecture) on Agile Projects

This talk presents several techniques and architectural activities that are useful on agile projects and explains how an agile architect’s role can and should differ from that of a traditional software architect.

Philly ETE 2015 #17 – Haoyi Li – Scala.js: Safety and Sanity in the Wild West of Web Development

This talk will show off Scala.js and how you can get started using it. Starting from nothing, we will build a number of small Scala.js applications, which will hopefully demonstrate this promise. No Scala experience required.

Philly ETE 2015 #16 – Kelsey Hightower – Managing containers at scale with CoreOS and Kubernetes

Linux containers provide the ability to reliably deploy 1000s of application instances in seconds, but how do we manage it all? The answer is CoreOS and Kubernetes. This talk will help attendees wrap their minds around complex topics such as distributed configuration management, service discovery, and application scheduling at scale.

Philly ETE 2015 #15 – Joanne Molesky – Getting More from Technology

In this session, Joanne will present principles, stories and practical suggestions on how to build a successful organizational culture that supports experimentation and learning with the goal to delivering better value for customers.

Philly ETE 2015 #14 – Dietrich Featherston – First, Movement: Using time-series data to better understand our products and infrastructure

In order to understand something, whether it be user behavior or software infrastructure, we must understand how it moves and changes with time. Unfortunately most of the tools of our trade offer little help in this regard.

Philly ETE 2015 #13 – David Richardson – Beating Hand-Tuned Assembly in Compiled Languages

We explain optimization techniques used to set three world speed records. Using a combination of code generation and hardware specific optimizations, we achieved a 20x speedup over hand tuned assembly.