

We're speaking at QCon 2022
Our conference sessions
October 25 at 9:00 AM PT
Wes Reisz (Track Host)
Microservices solve numerous problems around cognitive load, velocity, isolation, and scalability - if you get them right! In Operating Microservices: Patterns for Success, we bring you practical advice around what good really looks like with system observability, patterns of integrating with legacy codebases, and situations when microservices were NOT the right answer, and the most common issues encountered when it comes to day 2 operations with microservices.
October 25 at 11:50 AM PT
Lisa McNally and Marco Valtas
In this talk, we’ll discuss open source software tools and methodologies for balancing carbon with growth across your IT organization. You’ll walk away with actionable approaches to greening your IT organization in your daily work.
October 26 at 2:55 PM PT
Katharine Jarmul
In this talk, we’ll confront techno-solutionism head-on, walking through my own exploration of ethical machine learning, which eventually led me to specialize in data privacy. Along the journey, you’ll learn tips for recognizing when you’re being more clever than thoughtful, when you need another perspective, when you’re onto something bigger and when you’ve found a problem that will contribute to your own work as well as our world. You’ll also learn about how specialization, diversity, beginner’s mindset and community contribute to identifying real problems where technology can help and create conversations for problems where technology should take a back seat.
October 26 at 2:55 PM PT
Nimisha Asthagiri
The tech industry grew organically the last few decades. We built new innovations on top of old. We evolved systems and technologies to meet new challenges. Decisions of the past became assumptions of today.
But what if we pause to check those assumptions? What if we disentangle the systems and re-architect them with new priorities, such as privacy-first and user-centricity? We’ll explore what that could look like: an alternative architecture and ecosystem, where industry-wide decentralized data ownership is the prime directive. We’ll then dig deeper to see what you can do today with emerging technologies that align with privacy-first design.
Our workshops
October 27 at 9:00 AM PT (Full Day)
Premanand Chandrasekaran, Karthik Krishnan and Zichuan Xiong
While the concepts of DDD have been in existence for a long time, practical application and scaling has been a challenge, arguably due to a lack of practical techniques, tools and real-world examples that bring all these concepts together as a cohesive whole. In this hands-on course, we will cover how individuals and teams can apply the strategic and tactical elements of DDD to create valuable software solutions that exhibit high degrees of internal and external quality.
October 28 at 9:00 AM (Half Day)
Premanand Chandrasekaran, Karthik Krishnan and Zichuan Xiong
Team Topologies is an organizational design practice that keeps software healthy and evolvable for optimized engineering culture and promised outcomes. This workshop introduces nine steps of running Team Topologies that help engineering leaders
Balance all kinds of legitimate powers in an organization
Identify collaboration patterns
Design a structure that manages the Cognitive Load
Eventually, evolve your team and organizational structure to promote your desired architecture
October 28 at 1:00 PM PT (Half Day)
Premanand Chandrasekaran, Karthik Krishnan and Zichuan Xiong
Wardley Mapping is a practical approach to constructing a topographical business map that directs business decisions. This session introduces Wardley Mapping as a great DDD (Domain-driven Design) tool to understand the ‘Problem Space’ from a business strategy perspective. It helps tech leaders or architects:
Learn a new way of understanding business at a strategic level
Connect tech decisions with business strategies
Connect org design decisions with business context and tech decisions
Practice Wardley Mapping techniques
Our speakers

Brandon Byars
Head of Technology

Karthik Krishnan
Technical Principal
Katharine Jarmul
Principal Data Scientist

Lisa McNally
Head of Cleantech & Sustainability

Marco Valtas
Technical Lead for Cleantech and Sustainability

Nimisha Asthagiri
Principal Consultant

Premanand Chandrasekaran
Head of Technology

Wes Reisz
Technical Principal

Zichuan Xiong
Director of Solutions