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A four-track May conference, featuring names such as Michael Feathers, Tom Gilb and Felienne Hermans.

Microservices Architecture by James Lewis and Martin Fowler

James Lewis, keynote at I T.A.K.E. Unconference 2015, has a valuable contribution on Microservices Architecture.
Sneak peak:
“In short, the microservice architectural style [1] is an approach to developing a single application as a suite of small services, each running in its own process and communicating with lightweight mechanisms, often an HTTP resource API. These services are built around business capabilities and independently deployable by fully automated deployment machinery. There is a bare minimum of centralized management of these services, which may be written in different programming languages and use different data storage technologies.”
If interested in this topic, read the full contribution, jointly created with Martin Fowler.
Join I T.A.K.E. Unconference 2015 to hear more in his talk: Microservices – Systems That Are #neverdone.

How to successfully manage remote teams
Enjoy the following series of interviews with the speakers, top-notch software crafters from across Europe, joining I T.A.K.E Unconference, Bucharest, 19-20 May. Discover the lessons learned and what drives them to challenge the known path in their field.
Hugo Messer, founder of Bridge Global, will join I T.A.K.E Unconference as speaker. In his workshop, the participants will learn more about how to successfully manage remote teams.
#1. SHARE TOP 5 THINGS YOU DID THAT HELPED YOU GROW & BECOME THE PROFESSIONAL YOU ARE TODAY
- Starting my own software development firm, offering IT outsourcing
- Focusing 10 years on growing the company and learning how to grow a company, manage IT projects and people
- Always reading a lot of (management) books to keep educating myself
- I attend conferences and trainings regularly
- The last years I’ve invested in learning how to share my experience and knowledge with others through speaking and training
#2. What challenges will the participants find solutions to during your session at I T.A.K.E Unconference 2016?
During the session they will find out more about:
- common pitfalls within distributed teams > how to make distributed teams work
- communicating across cultures, distance and timezones
- how to apply agile to distributed teamwork
I’ve shared about the session in this video as well.
#3. What else would you like to share with participants
Want to join Hugo and many more software crafters from around Europe?

Meet the speakers – Part 2. Super early bird tickets available!
Software craftsmen from more than 15 countries will meet in the heart of Bucharest, 19-20 May, at I T.A.K.E Unconference! For 2 days, almost 30 speakers will share insights, latest trends, and deliver hands-on sessions.
We have previously shared the first round of practitioners who will make this year event a one not to be missed. Below, you can read more about the next 5:
Franziska Sauerwein, Software Craftswoman at Codurance LTD, UK
Introduction to Outside In Test Driven Development (London School) (Live coding)
Learn about different styles of TDD and how to choose the appropriate one
Raising The Bar (Talk)
My Journey Towards Software Craftsmanship
Philipp Krenn, Tamer of technology at ecosio, Austria
Automate all the things AWS with Ansible (Workshop)
You want to automate your AWS infrastructure, the provisioning of instances, and your deployments? Then Ansible is the right tool for you and this workshop gets you up and running in no time
Tugberk Ugurlu, Software Developer at Redgate Software, UK
How Docker Changes the Way You Work with and Release Your Microservices (Talk)
1000 feet overview of managing a solution architecture that consists of Microservices with Docker
Zero Downtime Deployment Golden Rules (Talk)
Getting Into the Zero Downtime Deployment World
Tim Perry, Tech lead and Open-Source Champion at Softwire, Spain
Microservice Pipeline Architecture (Talk)
Microservice architecture in practice, to build content pipelines
Andrey Adamovich, Software Architect at Aestas IT, Latvia
Patterns for infrastructure as-a-code (Talk)
Patterns are everywhere
Visualizing codebases (Talk)
Want to challenge the current programming practices as these software craftsmen are doing? Want to experience new techniques, debate on the existing ones or even pair program in the I T.A.K.E Unconference space?
Get your Super Early Bird ticket today!
Stay tuned. We will continue publishing more about the program, speakers and the dynamic learning practices awaiting you.
Thrilled to see you in May!