Brian Sletten

Machine Learning Platforms : Architecture and Learning

Monday, 9:00 AM EST

Machine Learning is clearly here to stay. While it is a far cry from actual Artificial Intelligence, it provides many invaluable and remarkable ways to learn from the data we are collecting about our customers, products and daily activities. The past afforded us machine learning libraries which became machine learning frameworks. Now, we are designing and building machine learning platforms that facilitate entire initiatives in reusable and extensible ways.

We will discuss many of the drivers of modern machine learning systems and the architectures that we are seeing emerge as well as the security implications of protecting them.

Modern Software Systems : Succeeding at IT in the 21st Century

Tuesday, 5:00 PM EST

In the last 30 years, our industry has been upended by advancements that unlock previously unimaginable capabilities. It still seems like there is far too much failure and not enough success in IT systems though. To be successful in the 21st Century, you will need to understand where we are and where we are going. It is a complex amalgamation of developments in hardware, computer languages, architectures and how we manage information. Very few people understand all of the pieces and how they connect.

In this talk we will cover how technology changes are enabling longer term capture of business value, modernization of legacy systems, resilience in the face of increased mobile user bases, IT sovereignty and distributed, layered, heterogeneous architectures.

Reactive Spring : Modernizing Code and Architecture in the Spring Ecosystem

Wednesday, 9:00 AM EST

Spring has always been defined by its lightweight core. While there has been an overwhelming explosion in the external projects and protocols it integrates seamlessly with, it has also evolved internally to meet the needs of modern development requirements.

One of the biggest changes in the last several years has been the emergence of Reactive Spring, an attempt to embrace the idea of Reactive Systems in the Spring ecosystem. This is a vision of responsive, resilient, elastic systems. Unfortunately, code alone cannot solve the problems so this is a case where software and architecture meet.

You will learn about:

- The Reactive System vision
- How Spring absorbed these ideas without complicating or
  eliminating the more conventional styles
- How to build, test and consume Reactive Spring applications
- How to architect entire Reactive chains of interacting systems

Reactive Spring : Modernizing Code and Architecture in the Spring Ecosystem

Wednesday, 11:00 AM EST

Spring has always been defined by its lightweight core. While there has been an overwhelming explosion in the external projects and protocols it integrates seamlessly with, it has also evolved internally to meet the needs of modern development requirements.

One of the biggest changes in the last several years has been the emergence of Reactive Spring, an attempt to embrace the idea of Reactive Systems in the Spring ecosystem. This is a vision of responsive, resilient, elastic systems. Unfortunately, code alone cannot solve the problems so this is a case where software and architecture meet.

You will learn about:

- The Reactive System vision
- How Spring absorbed these ideas without complicating or
  eliminating the more conventional styles
- How to build, test and consume Reactive Spring applications
- How to architect entire Reactive chains of interacting systems

Knowledge Graphs: Architecture and Information

Wednesday, 1:30 PM EST

Knowledge graphs are a rapidly emerging concept for machine-processable models of complex and dynamic domains. They represent the intersection of Web architecture and information. If your organization wants to resolve its most pernicious data integration problems or facilitate machine learning initiatives, knowledge graphs are likely to be part of your future.

We will discuss the emergence of Knowledge Graphs as an emerging solution to a missing capability in most organization's IT strategies. We will discuss how some of the biggest organizations in the world are heading in this direction, it's impact on API design and more. We will focus on specific tools, platforms and standards that are making Knowledge Graphs a crucial part of your overall solutions.

LLVM : Architecture and Language

Wednesday, 3:15 PM EST

The LLVM Project has been around for over a decade, but is increasingly important as a compiler infrastructure to get reuse and portability, shared optimizations and a faster time to market. It achieves this by having a pluggable, layered architecture compared to other compiler infrastructure. Many newer programming languages have chosen it as the basis of their toolchain including Swift, Julia, Rust and more.

In this talk, we will talk about the tools, components and layers of LLVM and how it is helping usher in new visions of portability and reuse.

WebAssembly : Architecture and Heterogeneity

Thursday, 9:00 AM EST

While still new to most people, WebAssembly provides a formidable vision of safe, fast, portable code. Through clever choices and well-considered design, the basic vision allows us to target browsers as a platform using a variety of languages other than (but compatible with) Javascript. This technology coupled with advancements in the Web platform are setting up the future of Web-delivered applications to look more like (and likely to replace) desktop applications.

The more interesting possibilities, however, will be realized when WebAssembly escapes the browser and ushers in a whole new era of ubiquitous, secure computing. We will discuss the various container environments and how they will solve some of the more persistent issues with more conventional software development technologies. Given the heterogeneity of modern architectures, you need a strategy for code use, reuse and positioning to best meet your customer’s needs.

WebAssembly : Architecture and Heterogeneity

Thursday, 11:00 AM EST

While still new to most people, WebAssembly provides a formidable vision of safe, fast, portable code. Through clever choices and well-considered design, the basic vision allows us to target browsers as a platform using a variety of languages other than (but compatible with) Javascript. This technology coupled with advancements in the Web platform are setting up the future of Web-delivered applications to look more like (and likely to replace) desktop applications.

The more interesting possibilities, however, will be realized when WebAssembly escapes the browser and ushers in a whole new era of ubiquitous, secure computing. We will discuss the various container environments and how they will solve some of the more persistent issues with more conventional software development technologies. Given the heterogeneity of modern architectures, you need a strategy for code use, reuse and positioning to best meet your customer’s needs.