Scalability 2018

The competition for machine learning professionals today is fierce, with most practitioners already off the market and the ones that are looking to be hired requiring salaries an average data team simply can't afford. The key to staying in the game? Tooling up your traditional software development teams (those typically focused on programming languages, software technology choices, software quality, development methodologies, code reviews, bugs, etc.) so they can take on deep learning and AI challenges, which require an entirely new set of skills around working with data. In this session, Todd Sundsted, CTO at SumAll, will make the case to invest in your current devops teams by training software developers and engineers the skills they need to take on AI, and will explain the difference in the tools and skills needed to become a machine learning professional, from training vs. coding to replacing traditional methodologies and practices with things like understanding bias in data, dealing with prediction error & drift.

With a globally distributed team with a wide range of software development, how we can offer a CI/CD solution that serves development from legacy to cutting edge, and scale up with growing demand from micro service development. We developed a "Jenkins as a Service solution" based on Jenkins 2.0, Jenkine pipeline library framework, Ansible and Docker to help team across GE Healthcare globally to achieve "Pipeline as Code" with an open and shared common framework, with a seamless integration with ElasticSearch to collect build, unit and BDD testing, code analysis, data backed as a dashboard solution.

Blockchain - the technology of 2017 has one very important issue to solve - Scalability. There are many different approaches for doing so, but who are the best? Learn how Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Ripple and Bitcoin Gold scale their solutions and how they prepare for hundreds and thousands of transactions per second in the decentralized world.

Are you still thinking about modernizing your database development process... someday... maybe? Do you have directories full of .sql files you use to build your application? You know unit tests should be included as part of your build process and you are going to start adding them... maybe next week? You may believe that modernizing your development process would be difficult, too time consuming and expensive, but if you have an Oracle Cloud account you may be surprised at what tools you already have access to and how easy it is to get started. Join me as we take a look at the Oracle Developer Cloud Service. I'll talk about some of the tools that are included and explore mixing in some open source tools you can use to automate building and testing your applications. The sooner you get started, the more it will save you in the long run.

Working in a fast-growing company that doubles in size every year, maintaining the quality of products and engineers is a very challenging task. In this talk I will describe how Wix.com's structure evolved from functional teams to gangs, cross-functional teams responsible for end-to-end delivery; guilds, professional groups responsible for methodology, best practices, and training; and mini-companies that serve as internal startups to support rapid growth while maintaining velocity. I will also discuss how we poured our culture into a game-like “guild day”, that helps us maintain alignment, keep the high quality of our work and people, share knowledge, recruit and preserve the best developers, and support a quality-based culture of innovation.

Cybercriminals have never been so notorious. As technology innovation seems to outpace security defenses, organizations, including the U.S. Department of Defense, are turning to ethical-hackers to assess risk and see where they are most vulnerable. Can these external hackers be trusted? Hear from leading experts about the misconceptions of working with hackers, what vulnerabilities are most common and how these programs can be used to manage and assess risk. Questions to be answered: What do you need to know before inviting hackers? Can these external hackers be trusted? Can hackers help fill the cybersecurity skills gap?

Stack Overflow is the world's largest and most frequently trafficked Q&A website for software developers. We get over 58 million unique users per month, and have built 172 other Q&A sites under the Stack Exchange umbrella. Building an internal developer community so that technical teams can collaborate more effectively, work faster and be empowered is something that nearly every enterprise, large and small, are trying to do right now. I've written about the topic (https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/07/16/stack-exchanges-3-step-process-for-building-an-internal-community/) and would like to dive deeper into the process that Stack Exchange takes each community through, including our customers for Stack Overflow for Enterprise.

The digital world is replete with a multitude of opportunities to scale several ways across architectural layers building up on a healthy mix of emerging technologies. Next-generation technologies open up avenues for creative application in real-life which translate to purposeful innovation.  However, innovation must not only thrive and sustain in this ever-changing world of technology but also scale on multiple fronts.  Innovation must scale across regional boundaries, architectural domains, the supply chain and most importantly, be nurtured in an ecosystem that is continuous and automated.  Attend this session to see the steps you can take to fuel innovation at the crossroads of technology, business and culture.

Node.js is the most powerful and growing fullstack ecosystem. The presentation will introduce the Node.js ecosystem with particular attention to numbers (number of modules published per day, number of new developers per year, etc.), and will dive deeper into how Node.js can be used for Front-end development; Mobile, Tablet and Desktop development; Cloud backends; IoT Devices; and Service Oriented Architectures.