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  • From Juneteenth to UML in Color

    Michael Brown is a senior software engineer at Microsoft where he helps their customers in their Cloud Adoption journey. He has over 27 years in industry experience (giving him enough time to see movements come and go and come back again). He founded Juneteenth Conference in 2020 to highlight Black excellence in technology and to create a platform to promote tech careers to Black youth.

    Vaughn and Michael's conversation explores how practicing Lean Startup and having a product mindset brought the conference to reality in two weeks. Additional topics are Michael's use of UML in Color to represent design stereotypes and assist with his use of Domain-Driven Design.

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    52 min
  • Balancing Coupling in Software Design
    Vlad (Vladik) Khononov is a software engineer with over 20 years of industry experience, during which he has worked for companies large and small in roles ranging from webmaster to chief architect. Vlad maintains an active media career as a public speaker, blogger, and author. He travels the world consulting and talking about Domain-Driven Design, microservices, and software architecture in general. Vlad helps companies make sense of their business domains, untangle legacy systems, and tackle complex architectural challenges.

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    43 min
  • Edge and Service Mesh with Istio and Envoy Proxy
    Christian Posta (@christianposta) is VP, Global Field CTO at Solo.io. He is the author of Istio in Action as well as many other books on cloud-native architecture and is well known in the cloud-native community for being a speaker, blogger (https://blog.christianposta.com) and contributor to various open-source projects in the service mesh and cloud-native ecosystem (Istio, Kubernetes, et. al.). Christian has spent time at government and commercial enterprises, as well as web-scale companies. He now helps organizations create and deploy large-scale, cloud-native, resilient, distributed architectures. He enjoys mentoring, training and leading teams to be successful with distributed systems concepts, microservices, DevOps, and cloud-native application design.

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    1 hr
  • Architecture in Today’s World of Agile, Cloud & DevOps

    What is "Continuous Architecture" and how do you define it? Why do quality attribute requirements drive software architectures? Why are they more important than functional requirements in an architectural context? Is Architecture still relevant in today’s world of Agile, Cloud and DevOps?



    Pierre Pureur is an experienced software architect, with extensive innovation and application development background, vast exposure to the financial services industry, broad consulting experience and comprehensive technology infrastructure knowledge. His past roles include serving as Chief Enterprise Architect for a major financial services company, leading large architecture teams, managing large-scale concurrent application development projects and directing innovation initiatives, as well as developing strategies and business plans. He is coauthor of the books "Continuous Architecture in Practice: Scalable Software Architecture in the Age of Agility and DevOps"(2021) and "Continuous Architecture: Sustainable Architecture in an Agile and Cloud-Centric World" (2015) and has published many articles and presented at multiple software architecture conferences on this topic.

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    52 min
  • Systems Thinking

    What is Systems Thinking? Vaughn and Diana discuss how this form of thinking can help software architects.


    If you’ve read The Economist or donated to Wikipedia, or contributed to The World Monuments Fund, you’ve interacted with systems that Diana helped to architect. She has 17+ years experience delivering initiatives to clients including Stanford, The Gates Foundation and Teach For All. She is co-founder of Mentrix Group and Principal Systems Architect for the Wikimedia Foundation.

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    1 hr 11 min
  • Service Mesh
    Lin is the Director of Open-Source at Solo.io. She has worked on Istio service mesh since 2017 and serves on the Istio Technical Oversight Committee and Steering Committee. Previously, she was a Senior Technical Staff Member and Master Inventor at IBM for 15+ years. She is the author of the book "Istio Explained" and has more than 200 patents to her name.

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    53 min
  • Lin Sun
    Lin is the Director of Open-Source at Solo.io. She has worked on Istio service mesh since 2017 and serves on the Istio Technical Oversight Committee and Steering Committee. Previously, she was a Senior Technical Staff Member and Master Inventor at IBM for 15+ years. She is the author of the book "Istio Explained" and has more than 200 patents to her name.

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    53 min
  • Visualizing Software Architecture

    Tooling (diagramming vs modelling), diagrams as code, and the importance of all this even in our new agile world.


    Simon is an independent consultant specializing in software architecture, and the author of “Software Architecture for Developers” (a developer-friendly guide to software architecture, technical leadership and the balance with agility). He is also the creator of the C4 model for visualizing software architecture, and the founder of Structurizr. Simon is a regular speaker at international software development conferences, and travels the world to help organizations visualize and document their software architecture.

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    54 min
  • Wardley Mapping, Team Topologies, & DDD

    Susanne Kaiser is an independent tech consultant supporting organizations to build and run software products from idea to production. Susanne was previously working as a startup CTO. She has a background in computer sciences and experience in software development and software architecture for more than 18 years. Susanne presents regularly at international tech conferences as a speaker.


    In this episode Susanne discusses with Vaughn Vernon how she uses Wardley Maps, Domain-Driven Design, and Team Topologies in her strategic toolset. She also gives us a more details about her upcoming book.


    As one of Kalele's instructors, Susanne teaches the Fast Flow of Change Workshop


    For more books on Domain-Driven Design and the Vaughn Vernon signature series go here.

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    1 hr 3 min

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