Yan Cui
Yan is an experienced engineer who has worked with AWS for near 10 years. He has been an architect and lead developer with a variety of industries ranging from investment banks, e-commence to mobile gaming. In the last 2 years he has worked extensively with serverless technologies in production, and he has been very active in sharing his experiences and the lessons he has learnt, some of his work has even made their way into the Well-Architected whitepaper published by AWS. Yan is polyglot in both spoken and programming languages, he is fluent in both English and Mandarin, and counts C#, F#, Scala, Node.js and Erlang amongst programming languages that he has worked with professionally. Although he enjoys learning different programming languages and paradigms, he still holds F# as his undisputed favourite. Yan is a regular speaker at user groups and conferences internationally, and he is also the author of AWS Lambda in Motion and a co-author of F# Deep Dives. In his spare time he keeps an active blog at http://theburningmonk.com where he shares his thoughts on topics such as AWS, serverless, functional programming and chaos engineering.
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Tracks
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Microservices: Patterns & Practices
Evolving, observing, persisting, and building modern microservices
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Developer Experience: Level up Your Engineering Effectiveness
Improving the end to end developer experience - design, dev, test, deploy, operate/understand. Tools, techniques, and trends.
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Modern Java Reloaded
Modern, Modular, fast, and effective Java. Pushing the boundaries of JDK 9 and beyond.
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Modern User Interfaces: Screens and Beyond
Zero UI, voice, mobile: Interfaces pushing the boundary of what we consider to be the interface
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Practical Machine Learning
Applied machine learning lessons for SWEs, including tech around TensorFlow, TPUs, Keras, Caffe, & more
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Ethics in Computing
Inclusive technology, Ethics and politics of technology. Considering bias. Societal relationship with tech. Also the privacy problems we have today (e.g., GDPR, right to be forgotten)
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Next-gen architectures from the most admired companies in software, such as Netflix, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Goldman Sachs
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Modern CS in the Real World
Thoughts pushing software forward, including consensus, CRDT's, formal methods, & probalistic programming
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Container and Orchestration Platforms in Action
Runtime containers, libraries, and services that power microservices
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Finding the Serverless Sweetspot
Stories about the pains and gains from migrating to Serverless.
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Chaos, Complexity, and Resilience
Lessons building resilient systems and the war stories that drove their adoption
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Real World Security
Practical lessons building, maintaining, and deploying secure systems
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Blockchain Enabled
Exploring Smart contracts, oracles, sidechains, and what can/cannot be done with blockchain today.
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21st Century Languages
Lessons learned from languages like Rust, Go-lang, Swift, Kotlin, and more.
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Empowered Teams
Safely running inclusive teams that are autonomous and self-correcting