Gregor Hohpe

Are architects supposed to be the smartest people on the team, making all the important decisions for developers to fill in the blanks? Certainly not. Rather, architects make everyone else smarter, for example by sharing decision models or revealing blind spots.

Are architects supposed to be the smartest people on the team, making all the important decisions for developers to fill in the blanks? Certainly not. Rather, architects make everyone else smarter, for example by sharing decision models or revealing blind spots.

Modern cloud applications utilize fully managed services that keep builders from having to manage infrastructure. Does having the cloud do more make it harder to move applications somewhere else?

Serverless not only reduces time spent managing infrastructure, but it can also reduce application code. Replacing custom code with fully managed cloud services makes applications more reliable and easier to maintain.

Integrating systems provides many benefits, from seamless user experiences to consolidated data for better insights to interactions with partner ecosystems through APIs. Despite having connected systems for decades, fundamental concepts like partial failure, eventual consistency, or idempotency still challenge many developers.

Building on the cloud is amazing—you have instant access to fully managed services, elastic on-demand scaling, and fine-grained access control. If you build your applications on a serverless ecosystem, the cloud even takes care of deploying and managing all of the underlying infrastructure.

Serverless applications can draw from an entire system of fully managed services, such as message queuing, orchestration, and event routing. These services support fine-grained asynchronous applications and are also programmable with AWS CDK in the same language used to code your application logic.

We upgrade our technology all the time—isn’t it time to update the role of architects? Today’s successful leaders forge a tight connection between an organization’s strategy, its technology choices, and its operational capabilities.

Modern application architectures, serverless runtimes, automated deployment timelines, and autonomous teams can expedite your cloud journey, as long as you leave existing assumptions behind and aren’t afraid to bust some myths along the way. Presented by two former CTOs, this session shuns the buzzwords of modern application delivery in favor of architectural decision trade-offs and...

Today’s successful systems architects forge a connection between an organization’s strategy, its technology choices, and its operational capabilities. Building executive awareness and securing buy-in requires you to communicate technical decisions and trade-offs clearly without confusing or lecturing your audience.