ETE 2017

Philly ETE 2017 #33 – Building for Operability: Stateful Applications in Containers with the Autopilot Pattern – Tim Gross

Despite the hype, deploying and running these containers in the real world is still a challenge. Today’s container frameworks force developers to compensate for many surprisingly restrictive operational constraints. Teams adopt containers only for stateless services, leaving behind many of their advantages in improving operability for the entire stack. The Autopilot Pattern is a powerful … Read More

Philly ETE 2017 #32 – Building data breach and subpoena resistant applications – Martin Snyder

Now is the time for a new approach to protect the covenant between an application’s owners and its users. Present threats are too numerous and varied and the battlefield too complex to defend with existing methods. In particular, technical defenses have limited effectiveness against non-technical attacks. The techniques presented here protect against attacks on all … Read More

Philly ETE 2017 #31 – Container Trends: the past and future of container development. Why now? What’s next?- John Gossman

Containers are not a new technology, but in recent years they’ve taken off and are changing the way software is deployed and managed. This talk will discuss why containers are such a hot topic right now, outlining current industry trends such as how virtualization and containerization are converging. John will also look at the road … Read More

Philly ETE 2017 #30 – Applied Distributed Research in Apache Cassandra – Jonathan Ellis

The popular nosql database Cassandra eschews a master/slave partitioning design in favor of a fully peer-to-peer model which makes it robust and scalable but adds significant complexity to some areas of its design. I will explain the challenges and successes Cassandra has had in creating lightweight transactions, materialized views, and strongly consistent cluster membership within … Read More

Philly ETE 2017 #29 – Automating at a Higher Level with Atomist – Jessica Kerr

As developers, we automate. We automate other work, and sometimes we automate our own. We save typing with templates or IDEs. We save searching out information with Slack integrations. Many companies have custom internal bots to tie together chat, version control, and build servers.

Philly ETE 2017 #28 – The Physical Web – Don Coleman

The Physical Web promises quick and seamless digital interaction with nearby physical objects and locations. Objects and places use beacons to broadcast information and content. Your phone discovers web pages associated with the space around you. You choose the most useful pages. This talk will cover the concepts behind The Physical Web, details about the … Read More

Philly ETE 2017 #27 – FOSS is in Jeopardy – Jamie Allen

With the creation of the Scala Center, Scala has achieved a level of open source collaboration that is heretofore unseen, where the worlds of government, academia, corporate enterprise and community are now actively engaging in a positive way to move the language forward in multiple dimensions. However, most other open source technologies do not have … Read More

Philly ETE 2017 #26 – DevSecOps: Lessons Learned from Inserting Security in to a DevOps World – Scott Schwan & Matt Wells

The topic of DevSecOps is starting to percolate in the technology world’s brew. There are presentations, manifestos, blogs, and conference sessions all dedicated to the practice. As humble practitioners of the DevSecOps craft, this talk will focus on the Starbucks efforts to securely develop, deploy, and support a unified commerce platform for one of the … Read More

Philly ETE 2017 #25 – Stream All Things: Patterns of Modern Data Integration – Gwen Shapira

Data integration is a difficult problem. We know this because 80% of the time in every project is spent getting the data you want the way you want it. We know this because this problem remains challenging despite 40 years of attempts to solve it. All we want is a service that will be reliable, … Read More

Philly ETE 2017 #24 – Java Puzzlers Next Generation: Down the Rabbit Hole – Viktor Gamov

The more we work with Java 8, the more we go into the rabbit hole. Did they add all those streams, lambdas, monads, Optionals and CompletableFutures only to confuse us? It surely looks so! And Java 9 that heads our way brings even more of what we like the most, more puzzlers, of course! In … Read More