ArchConf Software Architecture Training Conference Nearly Sold Out

SAN DIEGO - March 18, 2016 - PRLog -- ArchConf, a four-day software architecture training conference scheduled for April 4 - 7, 2016 in La Jolla, California is nearly sold out, organizers announced. A second ArchConf event has been scheduled for December, 2016 in Clearwater, Florida.

ArchConf features nearly 80 in-depth, 90-minute training sessions on Agile design, scalable systems, microservices, evolutionary architecture, distributed systems, continuous delivery, service-based architecture, design principles, soft skills, web application security, enterprise messaging, data architecture, architecture patterns, cloud architectures, measuring and profiling and modular Java.

Careers in software architecture are projected to grow by nearly 30 percent over the next decade according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

"Software architects are responsible for designing IT systems that solve business problems, typically acting as a liaison between management and technical teams that develop the solutions," explains Jay Zimmerman, the event's founder.

ArchConf is produced by the same company that presents the "No Fluff Just Stuff" Java Software Symposiums across the U.S. Learn more at https://archconf.com.

Scheduled speakers include:

Husain Al-Mohssen is a Data Scientist with EnerNOC whose main focus is engineering science and its application to create profitable products that serve hundreds or thousands of users. He has extensive software engineering experience as a developer, maintainer and architect in the areas of enterprise software, high performance computing, and the "Big Data" domain.

Emad Benjamin, a Principal Architect with VMware, helps VMware customers virtualize and tune large-scale Java platforms handling thousands of transactions per second. He is the author of "Enterprise Java Applications Architecture on VMware," and "Virtualizing and Tuning Large Scale Java Platforms."

Michael Carducci  For nearly 20 years, Carducci was a software engineer moonlighting as a magician. Now he's a magician moonlighting as a software engineer. In both endeavors he has dedicated himself to mastery and has gained deep insights both from his eclectic interests, entrepreneurial spirit, and experience that spans the full stack, the entire project lifecycle, and several technologies.

Ksenia Dmitrieva A web security expert, Dmitrieva is an Associate Principal Consultant at Cigital where she performs penetration testing and code review for clients in financial services, entertainment, telecommunications, energy, and enterprise security industries. Her current concentration is on researching HTML5 technologies and new JavaScript frameworks, their security implications, vulnerability discovery and remediation.

Neal Ford is the Director and Software Architect at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy. He is also the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, video presentations, and author of six books, including "The Productive Programmer."

Tudor Gîrba, an award-winning software architect, is the author the "humane assessment method" to help teams to rethink the way they manage large software systems and data sets. He leads the work on the Moose platform for software and data analysis, and founded the Glamorous Toolkit project for rethinking the IDE.

Douglas Hawkins, a VM Engineer at Azul Systems, has been developing software for the past 10 years, creating applications for bioinformatics, finance, and retail. To make byte code more accessible, he created the open-source Java Assembler Kit (JAK) which provides a fluent API for producing Java byte code and includes a REPL to allow for interactive experimentation.

Dave Hendricksen, a big data architect for Thomson Reuters, is the co-author of "12 Essential Skills for Software Architects," "12 More Essential Skills for Software Architects," and "12 Essential Big Data skills for software architects." He holds master's degrees in Computer Science and the Management of Technology, along with multiple patents for information management and retrieval.

Janelle Klein, the CTO @New Iron, is author of "Idea Flow Learning Framework," a strategy for optimizing developer experience and software predictability. Her development background includes data-intensive analytic systems from financial core processors to factory automation, supply chain optimization and statistical process control (SPC).

Kirk Knoernschild is the author of "Java Application Architecture," which presents eighteen patterns that help developers design modular software. He takes a keen interest in design, architecture, application development platforms, agile development, and the IT industry in general, especially as it relates to software development.

Peter Pavlovich, Principal Architect at EnerNOC Labs, is a technology addict and evangelist and has led many grass-roots efforts to introduce leading edge, advanced technologies and development processes. He has authored and delivered numerous technical seminars on a variety of topics including Ruby on Rails, Grails, Git, Angular, Meteor, Flex, GWT and AOP.

Mark Richards As a software architect, Mark has been involved in the architecture, design, and implementation of microservices architectures, service-oriented architectures, and distributed systems in J2EE and other technologies, and is the author of the definitive book "Software Architecture Fundamentals."

Nathaniel Schutta is a software architect and adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota focused on mobile and making usable applications. He is the author of two books on Ajax, and co-author of the book "Presentation Patterns" with Neal Ford and Matthew McCullough.

Ken Sipe A top-ranked speaker, architect and web application security expert, Ken's current focus is on enterprise system automation and continuous delivery systems. He is a regular speaker with the "No Fluff, Just Stuff" Java training conference series, where he is best known for his architecture and security hacking talks.

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Brian Sletten is a forward-leaning software engineer who focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, data science, 3D graphics, visualization, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies.

Matt Stine A 15-year veteran of the enterprise IT industry, Matt is the author of "Migrating to Cloud-Native Application Architectures" from O'Reilly. Matt is an expert on lean and agile software development methodologies, DevOps, architectural principles, patterns and practices, and supporting microservices architectures with Cloud Foundry and Spring.