Nailing bugs in distributed systems and pragmatic view on microservices

• Kamil Szymański: Nailing down bugs in distributed systems. 

Finding bugs in distributed systems is challenging.Finding bugs on production in distributed systems is even harder due to time pressure, especially if the bug is on the critical path.At times like that, you can't afford to guess what's wrong, you have to take decisions based on real data.In this slides-free session, we will see how can we use live data for making bugs discovery quicker and finding root causes of such bugs easier. Moreover, we'll see how to roll out fixes to production in almost no time.

About Kamil: a software developer, JVM & open-source enthusiast, develops D2C investment platform @ Pragmatic Coders, helps organizations improve their software delivery processes @ OSEC 

• Marcin Dziedzic: Pragmatic view on microservice journey on AWS - case study

Fintech projects are quite specific. It's not only about appealing design and small, independent microservices. Quite quickly things like security, scalability, resiliency and disaster recovery become a day one must haves. It gets, even more, existing if you move to the clouds behind the "big players" comfort zone.  

Two years of microservices journey in this specific context taught us a lot. We had to make quite a few thought, oftentimes unexpected, design decisions. Select from a variety of 3rd party tools and deal with the consequences.  

In this talk, we will look at AWS hosted service, deployment methods, and 3rd party tools that helped us survive. Their pros and cons, and moreover, ideas for the future. 

About Marcin: Co-Founder at Pragmatic Coders, calisthenics passionate and biker 

Marcin believes that success starts from small, self-selected, self-managed and self-directed teams composed of people with high technical skills that deliver software on daily basis through CI/CD. 

Having knowledge on how to build a team with solid foundations and successful business model he started Pragmatic Coders. Since then, he took part in a variety of software projects ranging from small Python-based apps up to the high-end Java / Blockchain apps. In spare time he keeps Pragmatic Coders moving forward.  

He is highly focused on best practices, AWS, software security, and resiliency.  

Compilation of Marcin's skills allows developing software that offers high-quality performance and reliability to our Clients.