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How to Evolve your Microservice Schemas | Designing Event-Driven Microservices

Schema evolution is the act of modifying the structure of the data in our application, without impacting clients. This can be a challenging problem. However, it gets easier if we start with a flexible data format and take steps to avoid unnecessary data coupling. When we find ourselves having to make breaking changes, we can always fall back to creating new versions of our APIs and events to accommodate those changes.

Lessons Learned From Scaling An Open Source | Angie Byron

Drupal—an open source CMS—turned 20 years old recently, and has grown from a small student hobby project to an enterprise-grade digital experience platform running ~3% of the Internet. This talk will explore the many lessons learned (most of them the hard way ;)) in navigating an international open source developer community through various scalability challenges. Angie is Director of Community at Aiven, Core Maintainer and Product Manager for Drupal, O’Reilly Author, Mom.

EP7: Platformless: Revolutionizing Enterprise Software Engineering

Join us for a new episode where Sanjiva and Asanka, the visionary authors of the platformless manifesto, explore the groundbreaking concept of platformless in enterprise software engineering. They unveil the inception and collaborative effort behind platformless, guiding viewers through its core principles and four essential technology pillars: API-first, cloud native middleware, platform engineering, and developer experience. Whether you're considering building from scratch or investing in a platformless solution, this discussion offers invaluable insights into the unique benefits it brings to architects.

The Snowflake Government & Education Data Cloud

In order to deliver on their missions, public agencies and departments must modernize IT to improve citizen services, streamline operational inefficiencies, drive research and innovation, and enable data collaboration across and beyond organizational lines. Unfortunately, the ability of public sector organizations to generate value from data is hindered by several challenges, including technical delays caused by legacy IT infrastructure, policy roadblocks, and institutional status quos. The public sector needs a protected, scalable, and flexible platform to centralize, govern, and securely share mission-critical data.