Speaker: James Wen
James Wen is currently a Site Reliability Engineer at Spotify. He's on the ALF squad at Spotify, maintaining and developing the tooling for capacity management + provisioning and internal DNS for 150+ teams at Spotify. He was formerly the Team Lead (Anchor) of the Cloud Foundry Buildpacks team at Pivotal and a core contributor and maintainer of Bundler. He graduated with a B.A. in Computer Science from Columbia University and is currently working toward his Master's in Computer Science with a specialization in Machine Learning from Georgia Tech via the OMSCS program. He is an avid proponent of technical domains like open source, reliability, continuous integration, collective ownership, highly accessible context/knowledge, automation, and clean, maintainable code. He absolutely loves to climb, whether on real rock or plastic, or bouldering or lead.
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Talk: Spotify Lessons: Learning to Let Go of Machines
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Tracks
Monday, 26 June
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Microservices: Patterns & Practices
Practical experiences and lessons with Microservices.
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Java - Propelling the Ecosystem Forward
Lessons from Java 8, prepping for Java 9, and looking ahead at Java 10. Innovators in Java.
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High Velocity Dev Teams
Working Smarter as a team. Improving value delivery of engineers. Lean and Agile principles.
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Modern Browser-Based Apps
Reactive, cross platform, progressive - webapp tech today.
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Innovations in Fintech
Technology, tools and techniques supporting modern financial services.
Tuesday, 27 June
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Case studies from the most relevant names in software.
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Developer Experience: Level up Your Engineering Effectiveness
Trends, tools and projects that we're using to maximally empower your developers.
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Chaos & Resilience
Failures, edge cases and how we're embracing them.
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Stream Processing at Large
Rapidly moving data at scale.
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Building Security Infrastructure
How our industry is being attacked and what you can do about it.
Wednesday, 28 June
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Next Gen APIs: Designs, Protocols, and Evolution
Practical deep-dives into public and internal API design, tooling and techniques for evolving them, and binary and graph-based protocols.
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Immutable Infrastructures: Orchestration, Serverless, and More
What's next in infrastructure. How cloud function like lambda are making their way into production.
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Machine Learning 2.0
Machine Learning 2.0, Deep Learning & Deep Learning Datasets.
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Modern CS in the Real World
Applied, practical, & real-world dive into industry adoption of modern CS.
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Optimizing Yourself
Maximizing your impact as an engineer, as a leader, and as a person.
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Ask Me Anything (AMA)