SATURN 2019 Presentations

Presentations from the program of SATURN 2019 (May 6-9, 2019, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

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Software Engineering Institute

Abstract

In 2019, the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Conference celebrated its 15th year. As the premier software architecture conference for senior engineers, SATURN 2019 offered keynotes and sessions on both essential skills and cutting-edge methods for software architects. Browse slide presentations from SATURN 2019 below.

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Keynote: Breaking the Game: Analytics Revolutions in Baseball

May 8, 2019 • Presentation

By Dan Fox (Pittsburgh Pirates)

This keynote talk explores the history of analytics revolutions in baseball and how the combination of data, software, and technology continues to "break the game."
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Artist Rendering of Keynote: Breaking the Game: Analytics Revolutions in Baseball

May 22, 2019 • Poster

By David Biber

In this poster, artist David Biber provides an artistic rendering of the keynote talk "Breaking the Game," by Dan Fox of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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Artist Rendering of Keynote: Autonomous Vehicle Safety and Perception Robustness Testing

May 22, 2019 • Poster

By Kurt Hess

In this poster, artist Kurt Hess provides an artistic rendering of the keynote "Autonomous Vehicle Safety and Perception Robustness Testing," by Philip Koopman of CMU.
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Linda Northrop Software Architecture Award Presentation

May 9, 2019 • Presentation

By Frances Paulisch (Siemens Healthineers), Jürgen Vaupel (Siemens Healthineers)

This presentation describes the work of the Software Curriculum team of Siemens Healthineers, which was selected for the 2019 Linda M. Northrop Software Architecture Award.
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Advanced Serverless Applications at The New York Times

May 8, 2019 • Presentation

By Darren McCleary (The New York Times)

This presentation dives into The New York Times' journey to serverless computing and work done to advance the state of the art of serverless tools and architectures.
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Agile Architecture Maturity Tutorial

May 8, 2019 • Presentation

By Eltjo Poort (CGI)

This presentation introduces the Agile Architecture Maturity Framework and describes 11 behaviors that are good indicators of agile architecture maturity.
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An Architect's Framework for Navigating Complexity

May 8, 2019 • Presentation

By Ken Power (Independent Consultant)

This presentation describes how complexity science—in particular, sense making and the Cynefin framework—can help architects develop more adaptive architectures.
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A Plunge into Serverless with AWS Lambda and Node.js

May 7, 2019 • Presentation

By Yavor Papazov (CyResLab)

This presentation describes the strengths and weaknesses of the serverless paradigm, where to apply it, and how to integrate an application with the AWS platform.
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Architecting to Support Machine Learning

May 9, 2019 • Presentation

By Humberto Cervantes (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana–Iztapalapa), Iurii Milovanov (SoftServe, Inc.), Rick Kazman (University of Hawaii)

This presentation covers obtaining data and selecting, training, and testing the algorithms for machine learning and identifies common architecture considerations.
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Being Agile About Architecture

May 8, 2019 • Presentation

By Joseph Yoder (The Refactory, Inc.)

This presentation presents a set of patterns that focus on practices and a set of supporting tools for creating and evolving software architecture while being agile.
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Blockchain Is the Answer—Redux

May 8, 2019 • Presentation

By Harald Wesenberg (Equinor)

This presentation will help you navigate the blockchain hype, determine whether blockchains could benefit your project, and consider secure blockchain implementations.
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Can Software Architecture Be Used to Support Innovation?

May 8, 2019 • Presentation

By Pierre Pureur (Travelers)

This presentation considers whether software architecture can be used as a tool to support innovation within the enterprise, using three real-life case studies.
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Continuous Design of IT Systems

May 8, 2019 • Presentation

By George Fairbanks (Google)

This presentation covers how to use continuous design on your projects with a mixture of agile, domain-driven design, functional programming, and architecture ideas.
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Creating, Reviewing, and Succeeding with Architecture Decision Records

May 8, 2019 • Presentation

By Ken Power (Independent Consultant)

This presentation, drawing on experiences with three different product lines, shares the motivation for trying Architecture Decision Records to preserve decisions.
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Data Necromancy: Bring Your Data Strategy Back from the Dead

May 7, 2019 • Presentation

This presentation draws on experience in a successful startup and Google to describe a case study of an effective data strategy in the modern computing environment.
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Democratization of AI/ML: Machine Learning for the Masses

May 9, 2019 • Presentation

By Ryan Luckay (Deloitte Consulting LLP), Tracy Bannon (Deloitte Consulting LLP)

This presentation demonstrates several software tools that make using artificial intelligence and machine learning easier for non-data scientists.
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Detecting and Tracking Enterprise Technical Debt

May 8, 2019 • Presentation

By Felix Bachmann, Stephany Bellomo

This presentation shares a method for discovering and tracking enterprise technical debt and explains how we use it to inform investment planning in the SAFe lifecycle.
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Developing an IIoT System Using Microservices and Its Architectural Evaluation Using ATAM

May 7, 2019 • Presentation

By Sercan Çıdem (Aselsan)

This presentation describes the architecture development process of a product line for IoT infrastructure software and an architectural analysis based on the SEI ATAM.
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Distributed Tracing in Serverless Systems

May 7, 2019 • Presentation

By Shannon Hogue (Epsagon)

This presentation shows that in serverless, cloud-based systems, some environmental characteristics are known in advance, so tracing can automated, which makes it more powerful.
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Domain-Driven Design of Big Data Systems

May 7, 2019 • Presentation

By Babu Samuel (Siemens Healthineers)

This presentation proposes a domain-driven approach to big data systems based on feature modeling.
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Function Composition in a Serverless World

May 7, 2019 • Presentation

By Josh Hurt (Platform9 Systems)

This presentation explores four options for composing functions, along with a deep dive into workflows, using examples and live demos for each approach.
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Fundamental IDEALS for Designing Modern Service-Based Systems

May 7, 2019 • Presentation

By Paulo Merson (Brazilian Federal Court of Accounts [TCU]), Joseph Yoder (The Refactory, Inc.)

This presentation introduces IDEALS, a mnemonic acronym for the core principles for microservice design of modern, service-based, distributed systems.
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GraphQL + Ruby = Love

May 7, 2019 • Presentation

By David Litvak (Contentful)

This presentation looks into the state of GraphQL in Ruby and describes how to benefit from the power that GraphQL APIs can provide compared to equivalent REST APIs.
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Impact of Functional Safety on Software Architecture

May 7, 2019 • Presentation

By Michael Turner (Visteon Corporation)

This presentation introduces the functional safety standard ISO 26262 and explains the impact of it and the concept of freedom from interference (FFI) on software architecture.
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Legacy to Cloud-Native Modernization in GCP

May 8, 2019 • Presentation

By Andriy Shapochka (SoftServe, Inc.)

This presentation describes a methodology of legacy software modernization into the cloud-native form as a better alternative to the lift-and-shift approach.
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Measure Your Agile Architecture Maturity

May 7, 2019 • Presentation

By Eltjo Poort (CGI)

This presentation describes the Agile Architecture Maturity Framework, which measures the architecture function's maturity in an organization via 11 key behaviors.
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Microservices: Confidentiality Hates Decoupling

May 8, 2019 • Presentation

By Jawad Damir (Jordan University of Science and Technology)

This presentation considers the confidentiality issues associated with the microservices architecture and proposes countermeasures to prevent or mitigate their impact.
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Modeling Microservices with DDD

May 7, 2019 • Presentation

By Paulo Merson (Brazilian Federal Court of Accounts [TCU]), Joseph Yoder (The Refactory, Inc.)

This presentation covers the basic concepts of domain-driven design and how DDD can help create microservices with better autonomy, scalability, and reliability.
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Modernizing Legacy Systems to Virtual, Cloud-Based, Software-Defined Infrastructures

May 8, 2019 • Presentation

By Rajesh Murthy (GapAsk, Inc.)

This presentation describes our experience in transforming a legacy system into a modern modular system using the ATAM and ISO/IEC/IEEE 42030.
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Monitoring and Supporting Microservices

May 9, 2019 • Presentation

By Sairam Tadigadapa (Capital One), Nidhi Swamy (Capital One)

This presentation provides guidance on architecting microservices with domain-driven design, choosing tools, avoiding pitfalls, and making developers' lives easier.
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Multi-workplace Biometrics Sign-on Using Serverless Architecture in the Cloud

May 9, 2019 • Presentation

By Andrzej Knafel (Roche Diagnostics International, Ltd.)

This presentation describes using serverless architecture to address user sign-on in production environments where multiple users rotate between multiple workstations.
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OSDU and the Master Data Repository Pattern

May 7, 2019 • Presentation

By Einar Landre (Equinor)

This presentation describes the Master Data Repository Pattern, which originated from the need to separate master data lifecycle management from application-specific databases.
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Post Hoc Systems Architecture: An Argument for Microservices First

May 7, 2019 • Presentation

By Anastas Stoyanovsky (IBM Watson), Charles Gala (IBM Watson), Aiton Goldman (IBM Watson)

This presentation considers why it can be a good investment to start with a microservice architecture when long-term requirements or obligations are unclear.
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Quick Wins for Modernizing Legacy Applications with Serverless

May 9, 2019 • Presentation

By Vamsi Chemitiganti (Platform9 Systems)

This presentation describes key patterns and quick wins for modernizing legacy applications using serverless architectures and functions as a service (FaaS).
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Reactive for the Impatient

May 9, 2019 • Presentation

This presentation covers differences between reactive programming and reactive systems and the strength and weaknesses of several Java-based reactive frameworks.
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Re-engineering an Existing App to Be Cloud Agnostic

May 8, 2019 • Presentation

By Adam Wynne (Bosch), Ying Liu (Bosch)

This presentation describes a Bosch solution that allows brick-and-mortar retailers to gain insights about customer journeys throughout their stores.
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Scaling Up Incremental Design Reviews

May 7, 2019 • Presentation

By Felix Bachmann, Stephany Bellomo

This presentation describes an experimental incremental design review method motivated by the agile method that scales to realistic operational contexts.
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Serverless Continuous Delivery with Azure DevOps

May 9, 2019 • Presentation

By Thijmen de Gooijer (Kommuninvest)

This presentation describes how small teams can use Azure DevOps as a simple and cheap way to deliver serverless applications quickly and avoid integration hassles.
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Serverless Integrations on Kubernetes/OpenShift

May 8, 2019 • Presentation

By Kurt Stam (Red Hat)

This presentation explains how to build cloud-native serverless applications on Kubernetes in general, using Camel K as a reference implementation.
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Smart Decisions: An Architecture Design Game for IoT Solutions

May 8, 2019 • Presentation

By Yaroslav Pidstryhach (SoftServe, Inc.), Serhiy Haziyev (SoftServe, Inc.), Rick Kazman, Shaun Greene (SoftServe, Inc.)

This presentation introduces Smart Decisions for IoT, a game that simulates the architecture design process of a solution in the Internet of Things domain.
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Tangible Ecosystem Design: Architecting Digital Ecosystems for Disruptive Services

May 9, 2019 • Presentation

By Matthias Naab (Fraunhofer IESE)

This presentation introduces the Tangible Ecosystem Design method, which we developed to support building disruptive digital services with disruptive business models.
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Technical Debt Management as Transparent Communication Hub

May 8, 2019 • Presentation

By Matthias Kittner (ESI Group)

This presentation describes a journey from having only diffuse information to a transparent way of managing technical debt and estimating the consequences of it.
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The DRY Principle Is Misunderstood

May 7, 2019 • Presentation

By Steven Solomon (Pivotal Labs)

This presentation shows that the DRY Principle is really about eliminating duplicate representations of concepts in a system and offers techniques to find incorrectly DRY code.
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The Testing Infrastructure Freeway: An Infrastructure Architect's Journey

May 7, 2019 • Presentation

By Bryan Osterkamp (USAA)

This presentation unpacks the tensions architects must manage when it comes to the needs and desires of various development and testing teams in an organization.
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Understanding Blockchains

May 7, 2019 • Presentation

By Len Bass (Carnegie Mellon University)

This presentation covers blockchain networks and platforms, contract variants, and aspects of cryptography such as zero-knowledge proofs and quadratic span programs.
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Value-Driven Architecture Documentation

May 9, 2019 • Presentation

By Eltjo Poort (CGI)

This presentation tells how CGI helped organizations modernize their architecture documentation standards and focus architecture communication on their audiences.
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Visual Thinking: A Prerequisite for Democratic Design

May 8, 2019 • Presentation

By Michael Keeling (IBM Watson Group), Owen Keeling (student)

This presentation applies the theory of visual thinking to software architecture design and provides a method to help architects make abstract ideas concrete.
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You Build It, You Secure It: Higher Velocity and Better Security with DevSecOps

May 9, 2019 • Presentation

By Anders Wallgren (Electric Cloud)

This presentation shares tips that allow developers and operators to increase delivery velocity and harden pipelines by addressing security earlier in the delivery process.
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You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello: Bridging the Gap Between Dev and Ops

May 8, 2019 • Presentation

By Anders Wallgren (Electric Cloud)

This presentation shares tips for bridging the gap between Dev and Ops to increase delivery velocity and improving quality, security, and auditability at scale.
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