Live Webinar March 1st 2016 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM EST
Duration: 4 Hours Credits: 4 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

 This Session Has 4 Hours Of Strategic Approaches!

This online conference dives into four key tracks from the upcoming O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference (April 10—14, New York Hilton Midtown, NY).

Join four seasoned software architects as they recount larger-than-life architectural challenges and share their strategies and solutions for dealing with them.

Covering microservices, integration architecture, reactive and its variants, security, and much more, this online conference will arm you with new strategies and practical approaches for coping with difficult real-world problems.

Zen Of Architecture

For the beginner architect, there are many options for doing pretty much anything. But for the Master architect, there are only a few.

In this information-filled session Juval will:

• Explain his approach to large system analysis and design, using volatility to decompose a system into its comprising services.
• Contrast it with the most common mistake in architecture: using functionality to identify services.
• Show how to overcome:
  • the real hurdles architects face pursuing volatility-based decomposing,
  • simple and practical techniques for identifying areas of volatility,
  • common telltale signs or “smells” when your design is still functional.

Presenter: Juval Lowy (O’Reilly bio) is founder of IDesign, a master software architect specializing in system and project design and iMicrosoft’s Regional Director for the Silicon Valley. Juval is the author of COM and .NET Component Services (O’Reilly Windows) & Programming WCF Services: Mastering WCF and the Azure AppFabric Service Bus. He participated in the Microsoft internal strategic design reviews for C#, WCF and related technologies. Juval is a frequent keynote speaker. Microsoft has ecognized Juval as a Software Legend as one of the world’s top experts and industry leaders.

Monolith To Microservices Isn’t Easy

Over 40 billion ads are served automatically each day on the AppNexus platform based on rules set up by clients through the API.

The breadth and depth of its features has caused the API to grow into a vast monolithic application.

Migrating from an application of this size to a microservices architecture presents a complex array of challenges—consistency is crucial and mishandling a client’s update can cost millions of dollars in a matter of minutes.

In this presentation, Larry will discuss the complexities of such a migration using real-world examples.

Larry will also share the open source software his team used along with the tools and processes they created to make such a change possible.

Presenter: Larry (Lawrence) Finn (LinkedIn profile) is a principal engineer at Appnexus. Studying computer science at Columbia University he spent a few years in the trenches of financial technology working on equities trading technologies. Lawrence has participated in growing the company from a fledgling startup to a technology powerhouse.

Designing A Reactive Data Platform: Challenges, Patterns & Anti-Patterns

Over the last few years, we’ve seen a tremendous surge in data volume, along with an unparalleled explosion of toolsets and solutions aimed at extracting the most value from this deluge.

Integrating these different technologies in a way that makes sense to the organization is a real challenge that has trampled many experienced engineering teams.

Alex discusses these challenges—their definition, mitigation, and potential solutions—and explains what makes a good design pattern (and what doesn’t) when architecting an integrated data platform.

Alex will cover the key architectural decisions Pluralsight made as it moved from a blank slate to a fully reactive self-service platform that is able to fulfill several business use cases.

Presenter: Alex Silva (LinkedIn profile) Chief Data Architect, Pluralsight, leads the development of the company’s data infrastructure and services. Instrumental in establishing Pluralsight’s data initiative by architecting their impressive  platform. Previously Alex was a principal data engineer at Rackspace, leading  the company’s data initiative. Alex has also held senior-level engineering positions at Walt Disney World Internet Group, Pentaho, OutStart, ESPN Emerging Technologies, and Travelatro.com.  With a reputation as a passionate & pragmatic data evangelist he is seen as a big data platform guru.

How To Make Threat Modeling Work For You

Threat modeling helps you think about what could go wrong and how to prevent it.

In building software, we either skip threat modeling for secure design or we try threat modeling but can’t figure how to connect threat models to real world development and priorities.

In this presentation, you will learn practical strategies in threat modeling for secure software design and apply risk management to deal with the threats.

Presenter: Robert Hurlbut MVP (ISC)2 CSSL  (LinkedIn profile, @RobertHurlbut) is an independent software security consultant, architect, developer, and trainer through Robert Hurlbut Consulting Services.  Robert has over 20+ years of industry experience in secure coding, software architecture, and software development and has served at times as a project manager, chief architect, and director of software development for several clients. Check out Robert’s Blog, where he shares links and other useful information.

PDU Category C documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 8 – Quality

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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Strategic Approaches To Real-World Architectural Challenges