Sam Newman

The Microservices Expert. Author of "Building Microservices" & "Monolith to Microservices"

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Sam Newman

The Microservices Expert. Author of "Building Microservices" & "Monolith to Microservices"

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Sam Newman is an independent consultant specializing in helping people ship software fast. Sam has worked extensively with the cloud, continuous delivery and microservices and is especially preoccupied with understanding how to more easily deploy working software into production.

For the last few years, he’s been focused on microservice architectures. Sam worked with a variety of companies around the world, often with one foot in the developer world and another in the IT operations space. Previously, has spent over a decade at ThoughtWorks before leaving for a startup, and then eventually setting up his own company. Sam is a frequent speaker at conferences and author of best-selling books.

Topic focus: Microservices

Check out some of Sam’s past talks:

GOTO Berlin 2019 - Monolith Decomposition Patterns
GOTO Copenhagen 2019 - Why Your Private Cloud is Probably a Bad Idea
GOTO Berlin 2018 - Insecure Transit - Microservice

A few of Sam’s books:

Upcoming masterclasses featuring Sam Newman

Resilient Distributed Systems

Distributed systems exist in all shapes and sizes, and chances are you're either working on one now. But the fundamental nature of distributed systems means that we are exposed to all sorts of problems that can cause our systems to become slow, unresponsive, or even fail altogether. In this one day class, you'll learn about the challenges of distributed systems, and what you can do to create software that is much more likely to work when users need it to.

Whether you're building a fine-grained microservice architecture, or a more monolithic distributed system, you'll learn concrete practices to help make your software more robust.

This is not a coding matserclass, but it is interactive. This is a class about concrete practice, but presented in a technology agnostic way.

What We Will Cover:

Each class is different, with the attendees shaping what content we will cover in each class, but expect to cover:

What is resiliency?
The Golden Rules of distributed systems
Timeout tuning
Retires & Idempotency
Load shedding & back pressure
Circuit breakers
Bulkheads
CAP Theory

Tuesday Sep 29 @ 09:00 | Copenhagen, Denmark

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Modernising Architecture For AI And More

Changing system architecture can be difficult, especially when it can be difficult to make the case internally that it will be beneficial. However, with the drive to develop Generative AI powered functionality for our users has put the current system architecture into stark relief. And no, the answer isn’t just to stick an MCP server on your existing application.

In this class, we’ll explore how the nature of GenAI and wider AI space is placing more pressure on our existing system architecture patterns. We’ll look at techniques to integrate existing systems with new agentic AI workflow, and explore how to do all of this whilst dealing with the inherent volatility in this space.

This is not a coding matserclass, but it is interactive. This is a class about concrete practice, but presented in a technology agnostic way.

What We Will Cover:

Each class is different, with the attendees shaping what content we will cover in each class, but expect to cover:

Patterns to transform your existing architecture to enable AI-powered functionality
How to deliver incremental change to production rather than big-bang releases
Managing volatility around pricing and models from AI vendors
Understand the key security challenges of agentic AI workflows, and how to reduce the related risks from an architectural point of view

Monday Sep 28 @ 09:00 | Copenhagen, Denmark

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