Tuesday
Building Your First Voice Experience with Alexa
Presented by: Jeff Blankenburg
Time: Tuesday 8:00 AM - 12:00 PMThis workshop will dive right in to getting you set up and started building a voice-based experience with Alexa. You will leave this session with a working Alexa skill that you can customize and publish as your own. We will cover topics around voice design best practices, voice interactions,...
Room: Salon E/DTrack: Web/Front-EndFormat: PreCompilerLevel: Introductory and overviewCreate a Cloud Environment with Terraform and Ansible
Presented by: Gene Gotimer
Time: Tuesday 1:00 PM - 5:00 PMHashicorp Terraform allows you to define your infrastructure as code. You write code to define systems, networks, security groups, firewalls, and more, making standing up an environment repeatable and reusable. Red Hat Ansible lets you remotely interact with those systems you stood up, configuring...
Room: Salon E/DTrack: DevOpsFormat: PreCompilerLevel: Introductory and overviewWednesday
IoT from Sensing to Insights Workshop
Presented by: Brandon Lewis, Christopher Judd
Time: Wednesday 8:00 AM - 12:00 PMIn today’s world, everything from tooth brushes to cars are connected to the internet and collecting data from sensors. Having the ability to capture the data and turn them into actionable insights can improve efficiencies, reduce cost and increase safety. Creating a IoT solution requires a lot of...
Room: Salon E/DTrack: HardwareFormat: PreCompilerLevel: Introductory and overviewThursday
The Elegance of “The Simplest Possible Thing”: Applying Simplicity Principles to Complex Problems
Presented by: Nate Berent-Spillson
Time: Thursday 11:45 AM - 12:45 PMSoftware development is complex work. Business requirements, platforms, and technology itself are all complex elements. Through all this complexity, software developers often try to create complex solutions that meet all the requirements at once. Similarly, when faced with a complex problem, they...
Room: Salon E/DTrack: Programming PrinciplesFormat: General SessionLevel: IntermediateFriday
Scaling Systems: Architectures that grow
Presented by: Kendall Miller
Time: Friday 2:45 PM - 3:45 PMIt's harder than ever to predict the load your application will need to handle in advance, so how do you design your architecture so you can afford to implement as you go and be ready for whatever comes your way. It's easy to focus on optimizing each part of your application but your application...
Room: Salon E/DTrack: ArchitectureFormat: General SessionLevel: Intermediate