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Vlad Khazin is a Solution and DevOps Architect focused on implementing high-availability and high-performance applications for a variety of businesses from start-up to the largest Canadian enterprises.

Vlad has been introducing and implementing a micro-services based solutions since 2013 to address, expensive-to-scale, hard-to-troubleshoot and risky-to-upgrade Internet facing applications

In his past experiences he has been facing “We are not ready for micro-services”, “Make the micro-services bigger” and “We are not going to make http requests between every component of our application” pushbacks and arguments.

“Benefits of Microservices Architecture to the Enterprise”
Vlad will cover the major motivations of introducing micro-services and common setbacks rolling out a micro-services based architecture. In practice micro-services are not a silver bullet: architectural trade-offs and past experience feedback deserve an a walk-through. He’ll discuss both the benefits and considerations based on his experience from both the start-up space and enterprise-level.

Arpit Mittal is a Solutions Architect at Scotiabank, member of Association of Enterprise Architects and has passion for Programming & Photography.

Since 2005, he has created architecture solutions in various domains across geographies using various architecture patterns with SOA and Microservices both on-Prem and cloud. He has helped organizations formalize strategies and processes to incorporate API first approach and transform complex legacy systems into service-oriented systems while developing organization capabilities that aligns with business and IT. He created a “Common Application Framework” and open sourced it, enabling the dev team to maintain focus on their work abstracting them from architecture decisions.

“Microservices Governance – Best Practices & Challenges”
Arpit will walk over his experience with his various Microservices projects over the decade and present the importance of early decisions of governance and challenges of not doing them upfront.

Aun has been in the technology management field since he started his professional career 18 years ago with the last 7 of those in the senior leadership capacity. He thrives in designing systems, shaping enterprise architecture, setting up greenfield technology operations, and guiding those businesses through stability and growth. He has built high performance teams and believes in creating empowering environments to induce innovation. He currently works at goeasy – a leading nonprime lender as VP Enterprise Systems and has previously worked extensively in the telecommunication sector.

“Front-Line Lesson’s helping shape Microservices Architecture”
During Aun’s presentation, he will draw on real life use cases of his experience in helping shape microservices architecture at goeasy & Freedom Mobile. He will discuss the lessons learned, challenges, his implementation approach, the importance of proper organization structure to support technology and why he believes microservices is the right way for any growing organization.

Ernani leads the architecture practice at Questrade, a Toronto-based online brokerage that provides Canadians with better, simpler and more affordable ways to become financially successful and secure. The Questrade Technology Group is home to a unique environment, where the engineering culture thrives and, most importantly, gets stuff done. The team is continuously working on its digital transformation initiative, as the infrastructure footprint grows into the cloud on an exciting strategy that is driven by business value.

“A case for microservices and events in trading”
Ernani will briefly glance through the tech landscape in trading, including how some domains such as market data may pose particular challenges in cloud-based infrastructure. Then he will present an example of business goal in which microservices and events can bring benefits, using a few diagrams to drive the discussion.