Raju Gandhi

Systems thinking

Monday, 7:30 PM EST

Albert Einstein once said — “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”

As developers, architects, managers, tech-leads, our job entails solving big problems. However, our systems are composed of parts, and it is the interaction of those parts that ensure the system works, and tells us where to go looking when things fail. What does it mean to think in systems? What are the benefits, and what are tools are available to us? If any of this intrigues you (and it should) come join me as we explore a new way of thinking about problems, both big and small.

In this session we will take a page from Donella H. Meadows fantastic book “Thinking in Systems” and attempt to get an understanding of what makes up a system, how we can tease apart the moving parts of the system, and get into the mindset of a “systems thinker”.

Terraform-ing your Cloud

Tuesday, 1:00 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.

We will be using AWS as our playground for this workshop

Agenda

• The place for, and benefits of “Everything as Code” alongside GitOps
• Terraform's architecture
• Terraform 101
• Introduction to HCL
• What are providers?
• Initializing terraform and providers
• Dive right in! Creating your first resource in AWS using Terraform
• Understanding references, dependencies
• apply-ing terraform
• Variables and the HCL type-system
• Using data and output in your terraform scripts
• Understanding how Terraform manages state
• Using S3 as a backend
• DRY with Terraform modules
• Collaboration using Terraform
• Terraform ecosystem, testing, and GitOps
• Closing arguments, final Q/A, discussion

Instructions

Please visit https://github.com/looselytyped/terraform-workshop/ for detailed instructions. They might seem a tad arduous but it's not as bad as it looks :)

Terraform-ing your Cloud

Tuesday, 3:00 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.

We will be using AWS as our playground for this workshop

Agenda

• The place for, and benefits of “Everything as Code” alongside GitOps
• Terraform's architecture
• Terraform 101
• Introduction to HCL
• What are providers?
• Initializing terraform and providers
• Dive right in! Creating your first resource in AWS using Terraform
• Understanding references, dependencies
• apply-ing terraform
• Variables and the HCL type-system
• Using data and output in your terraform scripts
• Understanding how Terraform manages state
• Using S3 as a backend
• DRY with Terraform modules
• Collaboration using Terraform
• Terraform ecosystem, testing, and GitOps
• Closing arguments, final Q/A, discussion

Instructions

Please visit https://github.com/looselytyped/terraform-workshop/ for detailed instructions. They might seem a tad arduous but it's not as bad as it looks :)

Microservices and DomainDriven Design — The strategic parts

Wednesday, 1:30 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 domaindriven 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.

Domain-Driven Design - Where Rubber meets the road

Wednesday, 3:15 PM EST

In this session we will go further with DDD, considering aspects like aggregates, domain events, factories and repositories, and consider how DDD can be represented in architecture, be that hexagonal, REST or RPC.

If you need a deeper dive into DDD, then this is the session for you.