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Conference On the 22 and 23rd of March i went to the "Microservices Conference 2018, MicroXchg" in Berlin. This blog post is a short recap of my experience of this conference, which was held for the 4th time. My goal was to learn more about the Microservices world, to fill my toolset of possible architecture solutions and of course to see Berlin a bit. Furthermore i interviewed Chris Richardson about Microservices and his upcoming book on Patterns. This interview is added to this blog as well. A note: everything within this blog is purely my own opinion. Location The location where the conference was held, was Kalkscheune in Berlin. A nice location with big conference rooms. There were 5 different rooms and everything was recorded. Overall program There were 4 parallel sessions with 1 indepth-session. The normal sessions were 50 minutes long, so this was a good time to get some more detailed information and there was also time for questions. As i wan...

Introduction Unfortunately i did not went to the WSO2 Conference in Asia  but i went through the presentations and this blog item describes some interesting topics i came accross. There were a lot of different tracks: API Management  Cloud Strategy Integration' Security Governance Architecture Analytics DevOps Internet of Things (IoT) API API (Management) is a hot topic. Almost all reference architectures use APIs to expose functionality, either to mobile apps or other apps. It is used within Microservices as contracts, it is used in connected enterprises that want to expose their APIs into the API economy system and it is used internally to manage and govern services. IoT Internet of Things is a also a big thing, so also at the WSO2 conference. The WSO2 IoT Server was announced in 2016 Q2. Features of this product: Implementation of WSO2 IoT Reference Architecture Device Management Device Analytics Device adapters ...

This year's Cordial was held on the 9th and 10th October in Putten. The yearly event is getting more popular because it was packed. Some of the highlights for me: A couple of very entertaining presentations with content. Must see: Freek Vermeulen  on why organisations find it so difficult to change. Magnus Lindkvist  on the present and future trends Meeting a lot of interesting people in the BPM field Partner dinner with excellent food Nice to hear that integration and BPM skills are still very much needed in the future :-) See the CEO of Cordys in person Presentation of CIZ of a project with Cordys Case Management. With  Ciber  i also participated within that project. So it was nice to hear of the succes The partnership of Cordys and Aquima . A business rule engine that can be used seeming less with Cordys And of course more can be found on  http://www.cordys.com/resources Looking forward to it again next year!