SATURN 2018 Presentations
Presentations from the program of SATURN 2018 (May 7-10, 2018, in Plano/Dallas, Texas)
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Software Engineering Institute
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In 2018, the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Conference celebrated its 14th year. As the premier software architecture conference for senior engineers, SATURN 2018 offered keynotes and sessions on both essential skills and cutting-edge methods for software architects. Browse slide presentations from SATURN 2018 below.
Keynote: The Whys and Hows of Evolutionary Architecture
May 2018
This presentation focuses on how fitness functions drive architecture in the right direction and techniques like refactoring databases and continuous delivery.
Keynote: Uncoupling
May 2018
Coupling seems to be the root of all ills. This talk reminds us, in the industry from which we borrowed the term, "coupling" was not a dirty word. It meant something ingenious.
A Function-as-a-Service (FaaS)-Based ERP
May 2018
This presentation considers whether function-as-a-service–based enterprise resource planning systems can become a reality as serverless architecture matures.
A Journey to the Center of the Clouds
May 2018
This talk shares Statoil's journey toward adoption of modern IT technologies and architecture patterns like cloud computing, machine learning, and microservices.
A Radio Astronomer and an Architect Walk into a Bar...
May 2018
This talk describes the problem of designing the architecture for a radio telescope that will process data equivalent to 10 times the global internet traffic.
Architectural Tradeoffs in Learning-Based Software
May 2018
This presentation shows how architectural tradeoffs in learning-based software stacks are made via a case study of design space exploration in deep neural networks.
Architecture Principles for Data Privacy of Cloud-Based Medical-Device Services
May 2018
This talk describes architecture principles for addressing GDPR data privacy requirements sufficiently enough to operate software products in most global regions.
Architectural Hoisting: Or How I Learned to Stop Writing Breaking Code and Love the Architecture
May 2018
This talk describes how an IBM Watson team used architectural hoisting to enforce design decisions in the code and avoid accidental architectural violations.
A Token Walks into a SPA...
May 2018
Between Angular, React, and Vue, it can be hard not to build single-page applications (SPAs). This presentation shows how to create secure SPAs.
Azure Table Storage: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
May 2018
Everyone is talking about Azure Table storage, the brand new NoSQL data service in the cloud. This presentation explains its advantages and disadvantages.
Betting on Evolutionary Architecture: A Note on Software Architecture as Code
May 2018
This talk covers prerequisites that allow small bets on architecture and explores the strange world of evolutionary design that this technique makes possible.
Blockchain Is the Answer. What Was the Question Again?
May 2018
This presentation shares a checklist of topics to distinguish between pure vaporware and well-thought-through blockchain initiatives that can succeed.
Changing the World a Service at a Time: A Tale of the Transition of a Large-Scale Data Processing System to an IaaS/PaaS/SaaS Paradigm
May 2018
This talk narrates the tale of revolutionizing a domain by migrating from monolithic, single-contract systems to an IaaS/PaaS/SaaS/Application ecosystem.
Cloud-Native Patterns/Anti-Patterns and How to Find Them in Enterprise Systems
May 2018
This talk covers cloud-native patterns and anti-patterns for assessing cloud suitability of .NET and Java applications and demonstrates an anti-pattern detection tool.
Continuous Delivery with Containers: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
May 2018
This talk covers the essential steps of creating an effective continuous-delivery pipeline for developing and deploying containerized applications.
Enterprise IT: Architecture to the Rescue
May 2018
This talk shows how Statoil has set up a company-wide network of architects, both on the business side and on the IT side, who work together.
Evaluation of Legacy Software Architecture
May 2018
In the automotive industry, safety and security are paramount. This presentation focuses on experiences evaluating a mature automotive software architecture.
FamilySearch’s Family Tree Web Application: Replacing Relational Database Technology and Transitioning to Cloud-Hosted Computing
May 2018
This talk describes FamilySearch's approach to transitioning from proprietary relational databases to open source relational and NoSQL databases in the cloud.
Feed Your Inner Data Scientist: JavaScript Tools for Data Visualization and Filtering
May 2018
Visualizing data in JavaScript is daunting. This talk describes three open source JavaScript libraries that help developers create compelling visualizations.
Fixing Under Fire
May 2018
This talk covers how to design a highly available, cloud-based, fine-grained SOA system to improve visibility, diagnose-ability, and developer happiness.
From Mainframes to Microservices: Lessons Learned in Modernizing High-Demand Applications
May 2018
This presentation describes Deloitte's experiences in the government and health-care industries, successfully using microservices to replace mainframe capabilities.
Green Cloud: Sustainable Open Source Cloud Architecture on ARM64
May 2018
This talk explains how to build containers for different chip architectures for virtually no extra cost using your existing CI infrastructure with green clouds.
Handling Personal Information in LinkedIn's Content Ingestion System
May 2018
This talk explores the technological issues involved with removing PII when members close their accounts in the context of LinkedIn's content ingestion system.
How Do Software Architects Find the Way to User Experience? With Google Maps!
May 2018
This presentation uses Google Maps to illustrate the mutual impact of architecture and excellent UX and the relationship between UX designers and software architects.
How to Measure Anything! ... Or Actually Just Quality Attributes
May 2018
Many quality attributes can be hard to measure. This talk applies lessons from Hubbard's How to Measure Anything to quantify even the trickiest QAs.
How to "Talk" to Your Software: Alexa, Google, Watson, and Cortana, a Side-by-Side Comparison of Cloud Speech Recognition APIs
May 2018
With the introduction of products like Siri, Cortana, Alexa, and Echo, speech recognition is now part of daily life. This presentation shows how to pick the right service.
Industrial Experiences with Automated Software Architecture Measurement
May 2018
This talk presents the experience of creating, evolving, and validating an automated software architecture measurement system in two large multinational corporations.
Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
May 2018
Writing infrastructure as code is a considerable initial investment. This presentation shows how Terraform reduces the cost of implementing and maintaining IaC.
Manage Your Technical Debt Portfolio
May 2018
The road to production is lined with decisions made under uncertainty. This presentation explains how great teams learn to use technical debt to their advantage.
Managing Data Consistency in a Microservice Architecture Using Sagas
May 2018
Microservice architecture must be loosely coupled and cannot share database tables. This talk describes how to use sagas to develop business logic in a microservices application.
Marvin AI: An Open Source Platform to Deploy and Manage Machine Learning Models
May 2018
Marvin AI is an open source project that helps data science teams deliver complex solutions with a high-scale, low-latency, language-agnostic, standardized architecture.
Migrating from Oracle to Espresso
May 2018
This talk describes how LinkedIn migrated its content ingestion platform, Babylonia, from Oracle to Espresso without affecting clients.
No Coding Required: Building a Kubernetes Native IPaaS
May 2018
This talk describes lessons learned and architectural decisions made while creating an integration-platform-as-a-service application based on Kubernetes.
Orchestrating AWS Lambda with Step Functions
May 2018
Step Functions allow you to easily orchestrate Lambdas. This presentation demonstrates with Step Functions, Lambda, and Raspberry Pi.
Refactoring to Functional Architecture Patterns
May 2018
This talk describes a Google experience of using both functional and object-oriented programming, which resulted in an architecture flavored by functional ideas.
Rest.li: RESTful Service Architecture at Scale with Asynchronous/Non-blocking IO
May 2018
This presentation describes how the open-source rest.li framework can transform your legacy monolithic application into modern microservice architecture.
Scaling Services with an In-Memory Distributed Caches
May 2018
This talk describes the problems of scaling a high-throughput API at GO-JEK and how using the constructs of Golang to build a distributed in-memory cache solved them.
Shorten Your Architectural Feedback Loop
May 2018
Short feedback loops make for better architectures and higher agility. This presentation shares CGI's experiences shortening the architectural feedback loop.
Smart Decisions Game: Machine Learning for Architects
May 2018
Machine learning has gained traction in research and industry over the past few years. This talk teaches designing architectures for ML systems via an interactive game.
The Ethical Software Architect
May 2018
This talk covers tools to explore ethical scenarios that any software architect can run into and considers how to improve ourselves as ethical architects.
Tiered Blockchain Mechanisms for High-Integrity Outcomes
May 2018
This presentation explains how a blockchain aggregation system can sidestep current limitations in scale and create complex event-driven architectures.
Whom to Marry? Agile Experiments for Tough Architecture Decisions
May 2018
Integration technology choices are difficult to change and painful to get wrong. This talk describes Kommuninvest's approach to a long-lasting architectural decision.