O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference 2020 - New York, NY

O’Reilly Media’s Software Architecture Conference (SACON) New York 2020 was Maggie Carrol’s (MAG Aerospace) compelling examination of the strategies and tactics successful software architects use to develop actionable influence within the power centers of their organizations. It was Sonya Natanzon’s (Guardant Health) practical review of the skills and knowledge required to become a software architect. And it was a series of thought-provoking and inspiring keynote addresses delivered by some of the world’s top software architecture thinkers and practitioners (e.g., IBM Cloud’s CTO Hillery Hunter, ThoughtWorks’ Chief Scientist Martin Fowler, and Lean/Agile pioneer Mary Poppendieck). This video compilation gives you I-was-there access to all of these presentations and to the best of SACON New York 2020’s keynote addresses, long form tutorials (3.5 hrs. each), deep dive sessions (1.5 hours each), and rapid-fire sessions (50 min. each).

Highlights include:

• Complete video recordings of SACON New York’s best sessions delivered by more than 50 of the planets most experienced software architects, senior developers, engineers, CTOs and CIOs—this compilation contains hours of material to review and analyze at your own pace.
• Fundamentals sessions, including Xebia’s Marco van der Linden and Tom Hofte (Xebia) on writing clear service-level objectives; Morgan Stanley’s James Gough, Matthew Auburn, and Padmavati Sridhar on building, specifying, and testing APIs with microservices; and Mike Amundsen (Amundsen.com, Inc.) on designing and building great APIs.
• Application Architecture sessions, such as Aikaterini Iliakopoulou’s (The New York Times) deep dive into NYT’s 4-billion emails per year messaging platform; Scott Davis (ThoughtWorks) on why conversational UIs are application architecture’s next big wave; and Wes Chow (Cortico at MIT Media Lab) on how MIT built it’s highly experimental “digital hearth”.
• Microservices sessions, including Ethan Garofolo’s (Berkadia Commercial Mortgage) review of what microservices actually are (and are not); Mark Richards (Developertoarchitect.com) on determining the feasibility of moving your monolith to microservices: and Megan O'Keefe (Google Cloud) on Istio and building a service mesh from the ground up.
• Key Skills sessions, such as John Chapin’s (Symphonia) best practices look at building resilient serverless systems; Nathaniel Schutta (Pivotal) on how to navigate the minefields of moving to the cloud; and Mike Roberts (Symphonia) on identifying the serverless “patterns” teams use to successfully build serverless systems.
• Domain-Driven & Event-Driven Architecture sessions on the potentials of these concepts, including Vaughn Vernon’s (Kalele and vlingo) exploration of reactive domain-driven design with message streaming and Amanda Gilbert’s (Confluent) study of how to create an adaptable event-driven architecture.
• Multiple sessions covering Data and Security (e.g., EBSCO LearningExpress’s James Wallace on building a security layer around your RESTful APIs); Enterprise Architecture (e.g., distinguished ACM engineer r0ml Lefkowitz’s master class on technical debt; AI and Machine Learning (e.g., Capital One’s Andrew Bonham’s look at the key differences between rules and machine learning); and many more.