Containers enable microservice architectures by making it easy to develop, package, and run microservices in an efficient, run-anywhere format. The mutually reinforcing trends of microservices and containerization have fueled the adoption of Kubernetes, which in turn drove the proliferation of a cloud-native tooling and the formation of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

In this presentation, Chris Richardson describes the essential characteristics of the microservice architecture. You will learn about the benefits and drawbacks of the microservice architecture and when it makes sense to use it. Chris also covers how the microservice architecture is not a silver bullet.

Keeping things small is one of the best things you can do for yourself and your team. Almost everything we've seen in the evolution of software and systems points to one, fundamental truth: small things are more manageable than big things. Small iterations are better iterations. Small methods are better methods. Small teams are better teams.

Alexandra Noonan, software engineer at Segment, recently topped Hacker News with a blog about Segment’s journey to microservices and back again. In this Q&A session with Kong CTO Marco Paladino, Alexandra discusses Segment’s adoption of microservices, its recent move back to a monolith and the unique insights they gained into the principles of software architecture along the way.

Want to take your API to the next level? Then you should give your API an OpenAPI spec. An OpenAPI spec is more than just documentation -- with it, you can leverage your API to generate client code, do automated testing, and more! In this talk, Wordnik founder, Erin Mckean, gives an overview of the universe of OpenAPI tooling and show how you can go from zero to OpenAPI spec in just a few straightforward steps!

Neha Narkhede, who co-created Apache Kafka, co-founded Confluent and is now its CTO, and Marco Palladino sit down for a far-ranging conversation about the history of Kafka. They also discuss trends driving the software industry, strategies for open core businesses, and the challenges of being a CTO. The conversation closes with both CTOs’ advice for engineers aspiring to found companies or become Chief Technology Officers.

Serverless and event-driven computing are gaining traction, providing cost savings in the cloud and more efficient resource utilization on premise. Kong CTO Marco Palladino moderates a panel discussion with industry leaders about the rise of serverless, its interactions with other cloud-native technologies, the challenges of implementing it, and where the field is headed in the future.

Geotab is one of the world's leading asset tracking companies, with more than 1M vehicles under service every day. They use BigQuery as their enterprise data warehouse to derive new insights from their location data – opening up new possibilities of value for their customers and entirely new lines of business.

The OpenAPI Specification (formerly known as the Swagger Specification) provides an elegant way to design and document your APIs. During and after design and documentation, mocking helps you create prototypes and achieve coverage for all your scenarios during testing and development. The problem is that mocking is hard to do and static. It involves a lot of work and makes it difficult to simulate different scenarios you want to test and develop against.