Chris Hansen
Software Architect
Chris Hansen is a technology leader and software architect with experience working on web applications of all shapes and sizes, from static sites in the 90s to a billion-dollar e-commerce platform and covering a lot of ground in-between. Chris started his career at Overstock.com, where he helped them break up their monolithic web app into services at scale. Since then, he has been working on microservice architectures at some tech startups in the Salt Lake City area, aka Silicon Slopes. As CTO of PeopleKeep, Chris built the product team that created the PeopleKeep platform from scratch and helped it grow to millions in revenue.Presentations
Intro. to Microservices on AWS
9:00 AM MDT
How to architect and deploy a microservice architecture on Amazon Web Services using services such as API Gateway and CloudFormation. We'll touch on a broad swath of services in the AWS suite to learn about what they do and how they fit into a microservice architecture.
First we'll look at the tools needed to build and deploy microservices on AWS with a Continuous Delivery pipeline. Then, we'll talk through some of the challenges of a distributed system and the tools that AWS provides to address them.
This talk assumes you know about microservice architecture at a high level, but assumes no prior knowledge of AWS.
Event Sourcing: The Wayback Machine for your Data
11:00 AM MDT
A bug corrupts your critical data, how do you undo it without data loss? Your biggest customer needs to know the exact state of the system at a very specific point in time, how do you find that out? Systems using event sourcing have good answers to these questions. Event sourcing is nothing new. In fact, it's a proven pattern for building reliable systems at scale. For example, it's how most RDBMSes are implemented. Yet many developers are unfamiliar with this approach.
In this talk, we'll demonstrate how event sourcing works with examples. We'll discuss when to use event sourcing, how it relates to CQRS, and how it's a great fit for distributed systems such as microservices.
Intro. to Microservices on AWS
10:45 AM MDT
How to architect and deploy a microservice architecture on Amazon Web Services using services such as API Gateway and CloudFormation. We'll touch on a broad swath of services in the AWS suite to learn about what they do and how they fit into a microservice architecture.
First we'll look at the tools needed to build and deploy microservices on AWS with a Continuous Delivery pipeline. Then, we'll talk through some of the challenges of a distributed system and the tools that AWS provides to address them.
This talk assumes you know about microservice architecture at a high level, but assumes no prior knowledge of AWS.