Raju Gandhi

DDD and Microservices

Wednesday, 11:00 AM EST

We live in a world of microservices. Yet, what is a microservice? What defines the boundaries of a microservice? How do we define the relationships between microservices? Thankfully domain-driven design gives us the concepts and practices to better design and decompose our services.

In this session we will consider many of the concepts of DDD — How bounded contexts use Ubiquitous language to model the domain, how context maps can be used to establish the interconnections between services as well aggregates and domains events, all of which will service us well as we go about creating our microservices.

We will also discuss the “tactical” patterns of DDD — We will see how we can “embed” the ubiquitous language in code, and the architectural influences of DDD.

This workshop will have you thinking about how to think in DDD using DDD concepts and ideas. Using polls, and mini-exercises we attempt to better cement the ideas of DDD so we can start applying them at work.

DDD and Microservices

Wednesday, 1:00 PM EST

We live in a world of microservices. Yet, what is a microservice? What defines the boundaries of a microservice? How do we define the relationships between microservices? Thankfully domain-driven design gives us the concepts and practices to better design and decompose our services.

In this session we will consider many of the concepts of DDD — How bounded contexts use Ubiquitous language to model the domain, how context maps can be used to establish the interconnections between services as well aggregates and domains events, all of which will service us well as we go about creating our microservices.

We will also discuss the “tactical” patterns of DDD — We will see how we can “embed” the ubiquitous language in code, and the architectural influences of DDD.

This workshop will have you thinking about how to think in DDD using DDD concepts and ideas. Using polls, and mini-exercises we attempt to better cement the ideas of DDD so we can start applying them at work.

Terraform-ing your cloud

Wednesday, 5:00 PM EST

A large part of embracing DevOps involves embracing automation. Over the last decade we have seen the emergence of “as Code” — Build-as-Code, Configuration-as-Code and Infrastructure-as-Code. The benefits to utilizing such tools are huge! We can codify the state of the world around our applications, giving us the ability to treat everything that our code needs like we treat the code itself. Version control, release management, tagging, even rolling backs are now possible. Terraform, an open-source tool from HashiCorp allows us to build, control and modify our infrastructure. Terraform exposes a Domain-specific language (DSL) that we can use to express what our infrastructure should look like. Terraform can work with all the major cloud providers, including Amazon AWS, Google GCP and Microsoft Azure. If you are curious about what this tool has to offer, this session is for you. Come on in, and let's learn how to terraform your cloud.

This session will focus on Terraform. We will look in to how this tool works, explore its capabilities, and see how it can play a pivotal role in our Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) strategy. With lots of code and demos, this session will certainly give you enough fodder for thought, and provide a baseline so you can decide if Terraform is right for you.

Get Go-ing

Wednesday, 7:00 PM EST

If you are interested in a different approach to writing your next micro-service, or are knee deep in the DevOps world with Kubernetes and Docker (both written using Go) you need to know go.

Come join me in a rather quick introduction to the language and it's merits and short-comings.

Micro-services, DevOps, command-line utilities — Go has been the catalyst in a quiet revolution happening right under our noses. Go, from Google, aims to be a language that is simple, with the aim of writing scalable and reliable software. Go brings a unique tilt to many aspects of language design, including enforcing a strict project structure, powerful tooling to support things like code-style enforcement, as well as “goroutines” to allow for concurrency.

Container Usage Patterns

Thursday, 11:00 AM EST

Embraced containers yet? If so, that only presents the beginning of the journey. Designing your images to be lean, and your containers configurable requires us to leverage Dockerfiles to their maximum potential. At scale, everything matters—build times, testing, multi-stage builds, conventions around tagging and logging. There is a whole ecosystem of tools around how we can best build our images and containers.

In this session we will learn many a trick on how we can leverage Docker's own tooling as well as third-party tools to ensure that our first steps in the container world are the right ones.

Composing your containerized microservices

Thursday, 1:00 PM EST

Docker compose has been a part of the docker ecosystem since the beginning. It allows us to “stitch” together our services so that we can deploy all our services and related infrastructure using the “one” button. Furthermore, we can now use docker-compose to target Kubernetes, exemplifying the role that docker compose has to play in our day to day interaction with Docker.

If you are new to docker-compose then this is the session for you. Lets take a look at the capabilities of docker-compose, see what it takes to use it for local development and testing, and finally see how we can target Kubernetes so we can mimic our production deployment on our laptops.