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Reactive DDD—When Concurrent Waxes Fluent
Vaughn Vernon gives practical guidance on using DDD to model business-driven solutions that result in software that is fluent, type-safe, and with core Reactive properties.
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The Great Migration: from Monolith to Service-Oriented
Jessica Tai provides an overview of trade-offs and motivation for the SOA migration and discusses Airbnb’s architectural tenets around service building.
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Meet Me in the Astrocade: Peace, Love, and 8-Bit Hardware Hacking
Rachel Simone Weil discusses the value of the occasional retreat to work on niche, obsolete electronics, sharing her experience hacking decades-old hardware such as the Astrocade and NES.
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AutoCAD & WebAssembly: Moving a 30 Year Code Base to the Web
Kevin Cheung presents a practical guide to getting legacy code to work on the web using AutoCAD as the example with the Emscripten compiler and WebAssembly.
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Break Up with Your Front-end Monolith
Elisabeth Engel discusses refactoring a front-end monolith, offering advice including building a parent app shell to deal with loading and routing child components, and avoiding certain obstacles.
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Deconstructing Monoliths with Domain-driven Design
This talk explains how Liberty Mutual changed a monolithic app into an event-driven microservices based architecture implemented with Event Sourcing and CQRS.
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Microservices: API Re-Platforming @Expedia
Mariano Albera describes how the Expedia Affiliate Network unit underwent a massive replatforming project that moved from an on-prem monolith to a cloud-based microservice architecture.
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Modernizing Applications to Pivotal Cloud Foundry
The presenters discuss using techniques and patterns such as Event Storming, Strangling, Starving, Slice Analysis and Domain Driven Decomposition to transform legacy apps for PCF.
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Code Archaeology
David Mitchell shows how to create visualizations out of code: building a map for a large, legacy code base, creating visuals without drawing, and explaining a roadmap to bring code under control.
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Injecting Modern Concepts into Legacy Processes
Michael Jenkins discusses ways that developers and system administrators can use to bridge the gap between legacy systems and modern techniques.
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Rebuilding the Monolith with Composable Apps
Ian Thomas discusses breaking down monoliths into composable parts and understanding value from the point of the customer, showing examples of functional programming styles for building front-end apps
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Refactoring Mount Doom - Tackling Legacy Code
Franziska Sauerwein discusses how to refactor code for the right reasons and the right methods to use for time efficiently.