O’Reilley Architecture Conference Notes

I just spent 4 days at the O’Reilly architecture conference in the NYC.

Highlights for me were The Architect Elevator workshop by Gregor Hohpe, that focused on a few very important things:

• What differentiates digital companies and regular old-school organizations
• How to transform organization from old-school approach to technology to the new fast paced ones
• What technical and org challenges to expect and how to overcome them

I would think most of the focus was on the org issues and approaches to communicates to every level of the the organization and how to get support of the business and executive level people to be able to accomplish the goal of transformation.

Regular sessions were also of a high quality. I highly recommend:

• Every session by Gregor Hohpe
• Career Advice by Trisha Gee
• The Goldilocks zone of lightweight architectural governance by Jonny LeRoy
• Distributed event-driven services: From the trenches by Premanand Chandrasekaran
• Anatomy of Testing in Production by Vasanth Asokan
• For the real-world approach to microservices: Choreographing Microservices & Incremental architecture by Allen Holub
• For the soft skills check out both sessions by Seth Dobbs: Leadership skills for architects and An architect’s guiding principles for leadership
• And one more on the real world microservices: https://conferences.oreilly.com/software-architecture/sa-ny/public/schedule/detail/71809 by Mason Jones