Designing, building, testing and deploying microservices now on YouTube
September 2016 – The video of my designing #microservices talk at #codemotion Amsterdam is on YouTube now.
Author: aahoogendoorn
Microsoft TechDays (The Hague, The Netherlands. October 2016)
After an absence of two year (have done Java inbetween) I’m returning to the Microsoft TechDays. This time I’m doing two talks. One about beyond agile titled Beyond Breaking Bad, and a talk titled Thirty Months of Microservices, discussing the experiences I’ve had over the last thirty months regarding microservices and continuous delivery. See more at: http://www.techdays.nl/
CodeMotion Dublin (Dublin, Ireland. September 2016)
Have done a few CodeMotion conferences before, this time I will deliver a talk titled Thirty Months of Microservices, discussing the experiences I’ve had over the last thirty months regarding microservices and continuous delivery. See more at: http://dublin2016.codemotionworld.com/ Note: unfortunately the conference has been delayed until Spring 2017.
ASAS (Arnhem, The Netherlands. September 2016)
Have done talks at four out of five editions of ASAS at the Gelredome in Arnhem, The Netherlands. Had to forfeit last year, because I was doing the keynote at Software Architect in London at the same day. This year I will deliver a talk titled Thirty Months of Microservices, discussing the experiences I’ve had over the last thirty months […]
Yes, microservices implies a distributed system
In September 2016 I will do the closing keynote for SwanseaCon in Swansea, Wales. Although my talk will evaluate agile after twenty years, InfoQ interviewed me preceeding the conference on one of my other favorite topis, microservices. Here’s the answers to InfoQ’s questions. InfoQ: What are the biggest problems that organizations have with monolithic software products? Monolithical systems, written in […]
Microservices Imply a Distributed System
Utrecht, september 2016. This week I was interviewed by Ben Linders, for Infoq.com on the topic of microservices, based on the fact that I will do the owing keynote at SwanseaCon in Swansea next week. Read the full interview here.
IT Works. June 29, 2016. Diegem, Belgium. Microservices (open)
Presented my one-day microservices and continuous delivery training course in open registration for IT Works.
IT Works. June 15 & 16. Diegem, Belgium. Pragmatic modeling using UML (workshop)
Two-day open registration workshop on UML and domain driven design for IT Works.
Shooting hoops and why learning is non-linear
It’s April and the sun is slowly becoming more powerful, warming the people in the green and white deck chairs in Green Park in London. A few minutes ago, I took the tube to travel back to Heathrow Airport, and afterwards home. Next to me a man is playing a game on his mobile device. Despite feeling drowsy from the […]
Ordina. April 7, 2016. Nieuwegein, The Netherlands. Masterclass microservices (in-house)
Presented a full day masterclass for enterprise and software architects at my old company Ordina.
Topicus. March 24 & 31, 2016. Deventer, The Netherlands. Pragmatic modeling using UML (in-house workshop)
Presented a golden oldie, my famous two-day workshop on UML and domain modeling. This time in-house at the main offices of Topicus in Deventer.
SwanseaCon (Swansea, Wales. September 2016. Closing keynote)
It certainly feels good to return to Swansea for the second edition of SwanseaCon. After delivering one of the more popular talks last year during the first edition of the event, the organizers kindly invited me to perform the closing keynote at the second edition, again organized at the Liberty Stadium in Swansea. See more http://swanseacon.co.uk/speakers/
CodeMotion Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Netherlands. May 2016)
After having done a very successful talk at CodeMotion Madrid some years back, I will return to the CodeMotion circus at CodeMotion Amsterdam 2016, where I will deliver a talk on microservices. See http://amsterdam2016.codemotionworld.com/
GeeCon (Krakow, Poland. May 2016)
GeeCon is a large JVM oriented developer conference, held in the great city of Krakow, Poland. Featuring over 1200 delegates, and 75+ speakers, it is one of the largest developer conferences in Eastern Europe. I will do a talk on the current state of microservices, should be big fun.. See more http://2016.geecon.org/
Techorama (Mechelen, Belgium. May 2016)
Very happy to be on the speakers list of Techorama a technical (mostly Microsoft oriented) conferences in the old city of Mechelen in Belgium ni May 2016. Will do a single talk – mostly on the current state of software architecture, microservices and continuous delivery. See more http://www.techorama.be/
Borealis IT&S Conference (Maastricht, Netherlands. April 2016. Opening keynote)
I was invited by Borealis to do the opening keynote for their tri-annual in-company IT&S Conference, to be held in Maastricht, Netherlands. I will kick of with a retrospective on agile, lessons learned and right after that I will do a workshop on software development processes.
DevWeek (London, UK. April 2016)
DevWeek is one of the largest developer conferences in the UK, organized in the city center of London, featuring more than 110 breakout sessions and 20 full-day workshops! After having done the opening keynote two years ago I will do two talks this year, on agile beyond agile, and lessons learned after two years of microservices. See more http://devweek.com/
Rubix ID (Vianen, Netherlands. April 2016. Closing keynote)
Rubix ID is a meetup organized by Rubix, a Dutch middleware company. The event wil have many presentations on big data, continuous delivery, and integration. Well known speaker Thomas Erl will do the opening keynote, I will do the closing keynote about microservices and continuous delivery. See more and register http://rubix.nl/ID
Software Quality Conference (Ede, Netherlands. March 2016. Keynote)
At the nice Software Quality Conference 2016, organized by Heliview at De Reehorst in Ede, Netherlands, I did the opening keynote, challenging the audience to finally move away from waterfall, but also move away from Scrum, and from projects and project managers. I do hope I didn’t scare the audience. See also https://softwarequality.heliview.nl/
Build Stuff on the Beach (Odessa, Ukraine. July 2016)
During the summer event of the Build Stuff conference, organized in a awesome beach club in Odessa, Ukraine, I did my talk on microservices – although I started of with a short introduction on functional programming in Java, as a reply to Michael Feathers talk just before mine.
Become the Leading Example (Nijenrode, Breukelen, The Netherlands. May 2016)
Great event hosted by Praegus at Nijenrode University in Breukelen. Was honored to do a talk on agile, or rather on beyond Scrum. Was also a member of the discussion panel at the end of the event. See more: Become the leading example
Rome, Italy. June 10, 2016. Designing, developing and deploying a Microservices Architecture
The development and maintenance of monoliths presents organizations with increasing challenges, resulting in high costs and a slow time-to-market. More and more organizations are therefore attempting to componentize their applications. The latest and greatest paradigm Microservices finally seems to deliver on the promises of Service Oriented Architecture: shortening time-to-market, scalability, autonomy, and exchangeability of technology and databases. The challenges of […]
Rome, Italy. April 22, 2016. Agile, Scrum, XP, Kanban and Continuous Delivery in practice
Since the introduction of the waterfall model in 1970 as an approach for software development projects, a lot has evolved. In the 1990’s similar ideas around iterative and Agile software development where introduced simultaneously in more and more organizations and projects, resulting in the Agile Manifesto. During this one day workshop, Sander Hoogendoorn, independent consultant and author of the highly […]
Hilversum, Netherlands. April 13, 2016. Designing, developing, testing and deploying microservices
The development and maintenance of monoliths presents organizations with increasing challenges, resulting in high costs and a slow time-to-market. More and more organizations are therefore attempting to componentize their applications. The latest and greatest paradigm Microservices finally seems to deliver on the promises of Service Oriented Architecture: shortening time-to-market, scalability, autonomy, and exchangeability of technology and databases. The challenges of […]
Amsterdam, Netherlands. February 19, 2016. Series of three lectures at the Vrije Universiteit on software requirements and estimation.
On February 19 I will be presenting a second series of three lectures for the post-doctorate year of IT Auditing at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, covering all aspects of modern software development. These three lectures will focus on requirements, user stories, use cases, software estimation mainly. This will be the fifth consecutive year that I will present these lectures […]
Amsterdam, Netherlands. February 12, 2016. Series of three lectures at the Vrije Universiteit on (modern) software development approaches
On February 12 I will be presenting a series of three lectures for the post-doctorate year of IT Auditing at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, covering all aspects of modern software development. These three lectures will focus on waterfall, agile, Scrum, Kanban and continuous delivery. This will be the fifth consecutive year that I will present these lectures at the […]
Vienna, Austria. January 18, 2016. Masterclass smart use cases
Next to the keynote at the Software Quality Days conference in Vienna, I will run a half-day masterclass on structuring agile requirements using smart use cases One of the important and often underestimated aspects of agile and Scrum projects is how to deal with requirements. Where does the backlog actually come from? Many projects rely solely on user stories. However, […]
The Hague, Netherlands. December 16, 2015. Introduction to agile, Scrum, Kanban and continuous delivery (Siemens, in-house)
This open one-day on workshop will present a real-life introduction to waterfall, agile, Scrum, Kanban and even continuous delivery. Participants experience why waterfall won’t work and what it means to be in an agile project, independent of which agile approach to use. I will walk through a lot of topics during the day and will also do a number of […]
Diegem, Belgium. December 10, 2015. Designing, developing, testing and deploying microservices
On November 18 I will run a brand-new half-day course on designing, developing en deploying a microservices architecture for Adept Events. The development and maintenance of monoliths presents organizations with increasing challenges, resulting in high costs and a slow time-to-market. More and more organizations are therefore attempting to componentize their applications. The latest and greatest paradigm microservices finally seems to […]
Hilversum, Netherlands. November 18, 2015. Designing, developing, testing and deploying microservices
On November 18 I will run a brand-new half-day course on designing, developing en deploying a microservices architecture for Adept Events. The development and maintenance of monoliths presents organizations with increasing challenges, resulting in high costs and a slow time-to-market. More and more organizations are therefore attempting to componentize their applications. The latest and greatest paradigm microservices finally seems to […]
Diegem, Belgium. November 12, 2015. Introduction to agile, Scrum, Kanban and continuous delivery
The one day edition of my workshop on everything waterfall, agile, Scrum, Kanban and continuous delivery for IT Works, including the famous dice exercise . More: http://www.itworks.be/event.php?id=SWOD20
Diegem, Belgium. October 28-29, 2015. Two day workshop pragmatic smart use cases and UML
Running an edition of my two day workshop on modeling business processes, smart use cases, domain driven design for IT Works in Diegem, Belgium. More: http://www.itworks.be/event.php?id=UMLD38
Why the project metaphor doesn’t fit software development
In 2009 I hired a building contractor to build a house. Together with an architect and the contractor I worked out the features. We wanted a basement, we carefully picked the materials, the location of the windows, the placement of the rooms, the bathroom, the attic and everything the contractor needed to come up with a price and a delivery […]
Software Quality Days (Vienna, Austria. January 2016. Keynote)
Will do on of two keynotes at the Software Quality Days in Vienna, Austria. Topic will be around quality in agile software development. I will also do a half day masterclass on smart use cases. Noteworthy is that Scott Ambler will do the other keynote. Software Quality Days: http://2016.software-quality-days.com/en/ Keynotes: http://2016.software-quality-days.com/en/conference/keynotes/ My masterclass on smart use cases: http://2016.software-quality-days.com/en/conference/conference-program/
TI Conference Days (Antwerp, Belgium. November 2015)
For the fourth (or fifth, I don’t remember) year in a row I will do a talk at the TI Conference Days at the Karel de Grote Hogeschool in Antwerp, Belgium. Switching subject this year from agile to microservices and continuous delivery. TI Conference Days: http://www.tievents.be/conferencedays/ And here’s my slidedeck: Microservices. Stairway to heaven or highway to hell from Sander […]
Software Architect (London, UK. October 2015. Keynote)
Software Architect is a very nice architecture conference in the heart of London. This year I will do the opening keynote (together with Simon Brown), and a talk on the current state of agile. My keynote is titled Microservices. The good, the bad and the ugly. The development and maintenance of monoliths presents organisations with increasing challenges, resulting in high […]
Superp Continuous Delivery (De Meern, The Netherlands. September 2015)
Delivered the closing talk on a smaller event in my home town De Meern on the rising topic of continuous delivery (and microservices), organised by Superp. Superp: http://www.superp.nl/nieuws/the-road-to-success-continuous-delivery/
EA User Group (Brussel, Belgium. September 2015. Keynote)
Did the opening keynote for the Brussels Enterprise Architect User Group Event in September 2015. The topic for my keynote was Modeling Microservices, where I talked about using modeling techniques in doing microservices architecture, such as smart use cases, domain modeling, bounded context and resource modeling. EA User Group: http://www.eausergroup.com/16-next-event/104-brussels-event-agenda-sept-18th-2015
SwanSeaCon (Swansea, Wales. September 2015)
SwanSeaCon is the first edition of a new software development conference in Swansea, Wales. I delivered a talk titled Microservices. Stairway to heaven of highway to hell? I might deliver the keynote at the second edition in 2016. SwanseaCon: http://swanseacon.co.uk/ Slides from my talk: http://www.slideshare.net/aahoogendoorn/designing-and-building-a-microservices-architecture-stairway-to-heaven-or-a-highway-to-hell
Moscow, Russia. September 25, 2015. Designing, developing and deploying microservices
On September 25 I will run a brand-new full-day masterclass on designing, developing en deploying a microservices architecture for Luxoft Russia. The development and maintenance of monoliths presents organizations with increasing challenges, resulting in high costs and a slow time-to-market. More and more organizations are therefore attempting to componentize their applications. The latest and greatest paradigm microservices finally seems to […]