Reactive Summit 2017

Event-driven architecture and design have been getting a lot of attention in recent years. It’s an old concept that has been around for decades, so why this sudden peak of interest? 

In this talk, we will explore the nature of events, what it means to be event-driven, and how we can unleash the power of events. The goal is to arm you with a solid theoretical understanding of how to design an event-driven system, what tools and techniques you can use to reap the most benefit from its design, and perhaps most importantly, what to avoid.

We'll discuss how an event-driven design can help: 

• drive autonomy
• increase certainty
• increase loose coupling
• increase scalability
• increase resilience
• increase traceability

Skeptics should definitely attend.

In IT, we love to praise the latest, but is it always the greatest? How can we tell? The speaker is a physicist, Professor of Computer Science, author and founder of CFEngine, and has spent 20 years understanding how systems can be described and managed. Promise theory offers a simple impartial perspective by which to discuss human-computer systems. In this talk, he will give a lightening tour of how to understand systems from micro, and mezo, to macro scales -- and what this has to say about the latest wave of interest in microservices.

Over the past 3-4 years, IBM has partnered and invested in helping its clients marshal their valuable data and then to use Data Science to build insights and models that can create business value. The market is shifting to operationalizing these Data Science investments into production applications. The demands created by the vast volume and the blinding velocity of data can only be addressed via the reactive principles. IBM and Lightbend are working with clients who are ready to make strategic investments in Cognitive applications using reactive.