2018 was a year of growth and learning at HBC Tech. Our organization embraced new technologies and new ways of building application software.
As the year comes to an end, let’s recognize some notable technical presentations from 2018.
Design Microservice Architectures the Right Way
Michael Bryzek (@mbryzek) at QCon New York 2018
Closing Loops and Opening Minds: How To Take Control of Systems
Colm MacCárthaigh (@colmmacc) at AWS re:Invent 2018
Monoliths, Migrations, and Microservices
Randy Shoup (@randyshoup) at Reactive Summit Montreal 2018
Scaling Your Architecture with Events and Services
Randy Shoup (@randyshoup) at Build Stuff 2018
Attitude Determines Altitude - Engineering Yourself
Randy Shoup (@randyshoup) at YOW! Conference 2018
Microservices at HBC
Sean Sullivan (@tinyrobots) at Portland Java User Group September 2018
The Data Behind DevOps: Becoming a High Performer
Dr. Nicole Forsgren (@nicolefv) at DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2018
You only have to change one thing to do the DevOps
Ken Mugrage (@kmugrage) at DevopsDays Oslo 2018
No microservice is an island
Michele Titolo (@micheletitolo) at QCon New York 2018
Lyft’s Envoy: Embracing a Service Mesh
Matt Klein (@mattklein123) at QCon New York 2018
Try Catch Blocks for your Distributed System
Cecilia Deng (@cicikendiggit) at REdeploy 2018
AWS SDK for Java 2.0
Sean Sullivan (@tinyrobots) at Portland Java User Group August 2018
Testing in production at LinkedIn
Szczepan Faber (@mockitoguy) at Devoxx Poland 2018
Run Less Software
Rich Archbold (@rich_archbold) at DevOpsDays Galway 2018
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Effective Scala: Reloaded
Mirco Dotta (@mircodotta) at Voxxed Zurich 2018
Building a Social Graph at Nike with Amazon Neptune
Marc Wangenheim (@mwangenh) and Aditya Soni (@adityasoni84) at AWS re:Invent 2018
High Reliability Infrastructure Migrations
Julia Evans (@b0rk) at KubeCon Seattle 2018
Clouds with Silver Linings: Maximising Learning From Incidents
Ian Malpass (@indec) at DevOps Minneapolis August 2018
Web performance made easy
Ewa Gasperowicz and Addy Osmani at Google I/O 2018
Java API Design Best Practices
Jonathan Giles (@jonathangiles) at Devoxx Poland 2018
CI/CD for Serverless and Containerized Applications
Clare Liguori (@clare_liguori) at AWS re:Invent 2018
Serverless Architectural Patterns and Best Practices
Drew Dennis and Maitreya Ranganath at AWS re:Invent 2018
Kafka and Event-Oriented Architecture
Jay Kreps (@jaykreps) at Kafka Summit SF 2018
Is Kafka a Database?
Martin Kleppmann (@martinkl) at Kafka Summit SF 2018
FiloDB: Real-time, In-Memory Time Series at Massive Scale
Evan Chan (@evanfchan) at Scale By The Bay 2018
Build containers faster with Jib
Q Chen (@coollog) and Appu Goundan (@loosebazooka) at Velocity Conf June 2018
Kubernetes Is A Platform Platform
Joe Beda (@jbeda) at DevOpsDays Seattle 2018
Democratizing Distributed Systems
Brendan Burns (@brendandburns) at GOTO Amsterdam 2018
The Great Migration: from Monolith to Service-Oriented at AirBnb
Jessica Tai (@jessicamtai) at QCon San Francisco 2018
From Monorail to Monorepo: Airbnb’s journey into microservices
Jens Vanderhaeghe (@jvanderhaeghe) at GitHub Universe 2018
Full Cycle Developers at Netflix
Greg Burrell (@gburrell_greg) at QCon San Francisco 2018
Taming polyglot development using Docker at Netflix
Nadav Cohen (@nadavc) at Productivity Engineering Silicon Valley meetup - February 2018
Why You Need A Software Delivery Machine
Rod Johnson (@springrod) at GOTO Copenhagen 2018
Paying Technical Debt at Scale - Migrations at Stripe
Will Larson (@lethain) at QCon San Francisco 2018
How AWS Minimizes the Blast Radius of Failures
Peter Vosshall (@petervosshall) at AWS Re:Invent 2018
Stealing The Best Ideas From DevOps
Thomas Limoncelli (@yesthattom) at DevOpsDays NYC 2018
Productivity Engineering at Google
Michael Bachman at Productivity Engineering Silicon Valley meetup - April 2018
Big Data, Fast Data @ Paypal
Sid Anand (@r39132) at YOW! Conference 2018
Velocity at scale - principles to live by
Ben Mackie (@bdmackie) at YOW! CTO Summit 2018
Working at Netflix
Brendan Gregg (@brendangregg) at YOW! CTO Summit 2018
Preparing for Scala 3
Adriaan Moors (@adriaanm) and Martin Odersky (@odersky) at Scala Days New York 2018
Functional Programming with Effects
Rob Norris (@tpolecat) at Scala Days New York 2018
Cats Effect: The IO Monad for Scala
Gabriel Volpe (@volpegabriel87) at ScalaIO FR 2018
From Fast-Data to a Key Operational Technology for the Enterprise
Colin Breck (@breckcs) at Reactive Summit 2018
DevOps at Uber
Kiran Bondalapati (@bondlog) at Code-Conf 2018
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Enabling Microservices at Apple
Scott Mitchell (@scott_mitch_) at Devoxx Belgium 2018
Strings are evil: methods to hide the use of primitive types
Noel Welsh (@noelwelsh) and Adam Rosien (@arosien) at ScalaDays Berlin 2018