Ken Sipe

Standing up Enterprise Architecture

3:00 PM MDT

The organization has grown and one line of business has become 2 and then 10. Each line of business is driving technology choices based on their own needs. Who and how do you manage alignment of technology across the entire Enterprise… Enter Enterprise Architecture! We need to stand up a new part of the organization.

This session will define the role of architects and architectures. We will walk through a framework of starting an Enterprise Architecture practice. Discussions will include:

• Differences of EA teams from one organization to another
• Different architectural roles
• Challenges that face EA
• How to start or refine an EA practice

Architectural Awareness: Engineering Super-skill

5:00 PM MDT

Awareness is the knowledge or perception of a situation or fact, which based on myriad of factors is an elusive attribute. Likely the most significant unasked for skill… perhaps because it's challenging to “measure” or verify. It is challenging to be aware of aware, or is evidence of it's adherence. This session will cover different levels of architectural awareness. How to surface awareness and how you might respond to different technical situations once you are aware.

Within this session we look holistically an engineering, architecture and the software development process. Discussing:

* Awareness of when process needs to change (original purpose of Agile)
* Awareness of architectural complexity
* Awareness of a shift in architectural needs 
* Awareness of application portfolio and application categorization 
* Awareness of metrics surfacing system challenges
* Awareness of system scale (and what scale means for your application)
* Awareness when architectural rules are changing
* Awareness of motivation for feature requests
* Awareness of solving the right problem

The focus of the session will be mindful (defined as focusing on one's awareness), commentating in sharing strategies for heightening awareness as an architect and engineer.

Go For Java Developers

9:00 AM MDT

Are you a Java Developer looking to work on a Golang project? Are you looking to get involve on cloud native projects such as Kubernetes? This session is for you! This session assumes are are a Java developer and details the nuances of Go with comparisons against Java-isms.

This session will take a deep dive into Go as a language and provide details necessary to understand and write idiomatic go applications. In addition to differences in how to use the language and packaging structures, we will look at options for standard idiomatic Java. This will include:

• Collection comparisons and what to use in Go
• Stream processing for filters and maps
• Packaging and encapsulation
• Error Handling (Go 1.13 style)
• Go formatting, style and linting

In the process, we will look at several Go projects in the Open Source space as style examples.

Super Charge Your Dev Environment

11:00 AM MDT

Just as sharpening the saw is the best way to cut down a tree… sharpening your development environment allows for a more focused more productive experience.
This session is a collection of scripts, aliases, shells, editors and tools which will super charge your development experience.

This session will cover:

• zshell, oh my zsh and powerlevel10k
• system aliases, scripts and functions
• switching java, ruby and python environments
• git, hub and git aliases
• working pull-requests and stand-up meetings from the CLI
• iterm2 scripting and wizardry
• ngrok and working with secure call-backs

Bring your machine and lets have you productive within 2 hours!

Spock Workshop - A MUST Have for your Developer Toolbelt

1:30 PM MDT

Spock is a groovy based testing framework that leverages all the “best practices” of the last several years taking advantage of many of the development experience of the industry. Combine Junit, BDD, RSpec, Groovy and Vulcans… and you get Spock! Feedback from previous attendees experienced with Spock indicated they learned more than they imagined they would as this deep dive session will explore many less documented cases of Spock and is intended for all experience levels.

This workshop assumes some understanding of testing and junit and builds on it. We will introduce and dig deep into Spock as a test specification and mocking tool. This is a hands-on 50% labs workshop. Concepts are presented, followed by labs to help re-enforce understanding.

Spock Workshop - A MUST Have for your Developer Toolbelt

3:15 PM MDT

Spock is a groovy based testing framework that leverages all the “best practices” of the last several years taking advantage of many of the development experience of the industry. Combine Junit, BDD, RSpec, Groovy and Vulcans… and you get Spock! Feedback from previous attendees experienced with Spock indicated they learned more than they imagined they would as this deep dive session will explore many less documented cases of Spock and is intended for all experience levels.

This workshop assumes some understanding of testing and junit and builds on it. We will introduce and dig deep into Spock as a test specification and mocking tool. This is a hands-on 50% labs workshop. Concepts are presented, followed by labs to help re-enforce understanding.