Conferences for the rest of 2015
Posted on Oct 31 2015
The end of the year seems to bring a pile-up of conferences, and 2015 is no exception. I've a pretty full agenda, and unfortuntately had to turn down the chance to speak at a bunch of interesting events due to clashes. That said, the upcoming events are all excellent, and I'm looking forward chatting to as many people as I can while I'm there.
Øredev - Sweden, 3rd-6th November
I spoke at Øredev a few years back and enjoyed it greatly, so I'm very glad to be back in Malmö again this year. I'll be presenting two talks. The first, is a new talk for this year, AppSec and Microservices. Security in the space of distributed systems has been an interest of mine throughout 2015, and an area I've wanted to dive into more given the amount of uncertainty out there around how to approach it. The talk is half introduction to application securirty, half focus on microservices - I found that many developers (myself included!) don't always have a basic understanding of what application security includes, so providing some framing is important.
The second is the The Principles Of Microservices, which has proven to be my most popular talk ever I think! I've managed to make sure I can be around for most of the conference itself, only missing Friday afternoon - the schedule looks excellent. I'll also be finding some time to sign a few copies of the Building Microservices book too and the O'Reilly stand.
Agile Days Italy, 6th-7th November
This conference was actually started by an old colleague of mine, Marco Abis. Although Marco isn't actively involved any more I'd always hoped to speak there. This will also be my first conference in Italy after unfortunately having to cancel a trip to Lake Como back in 2007! Here I'll be reprising my QCon Sao Paulo keynote Microservices - An Unexpected Journey.
Devoxx Belgium, 11th November
My visit to Devoxx Belgium will be very brief unfortuntately as I have to head off for some client work. I'll only be there for the morning of the Wednesday, presenting The Principles Of Microservices. O'Reilly should have some signed copies of the book to give away too. It's a shame as I really enjoyed Devoxx Poland and had hoped to stay longer, but November's schedule is so packed I couldn't manage it. Next year I hope!
Yow! 2015 - Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne in December
It's nice to finish a year with a local conference, and the Yow! conferences are thoroughly excellent. The event is actually a three city tour covering Brisbane, Melbourne and my home town of Sydney, with a two day conference being run in each location. In a nice touch, the organisers tweak the timings of each of the three conferences so speakers can make sure they see every talk if they want to!
I'll be presenting my second new talk of the year, Deploying and Scaling Microservices This is a deep dive into deployment issues, where I try and explain what mesos is, amongst other things. Hopefully it'll all make sense! I'll also be co-presenting a workshop at Yow (although just in Sydney and Melboure), Docker In Production, with ThoughtWorks colleagues and Kiru Samapathy and Clarence Bakirtzidis. Kiru and Clarence created the initial workshop, and I'm joining them to help update it ahead of Yow (Docker moves pretty fast!). It's an excellent hands-on tutorial they created and I'm really looking forward to helping evolve it further.
And Beyond…
I also have a number of conferences lined up in 2016 too. Some of these events haven't yet announced their lineups yet so I'll wait till they do before I announce anything here, and I'll make sure to keep my events page updated so you can see where I'll be going next.
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