Microservices architecture may be at the bottom of the Hype Cycle, but it's still wildly popular. This session provides an opportunity to speak directly with a Gartner expert covering microservices architecture to get answers to your burning questions.

APIs are everywhere, both inside and outside your organization. But far too many organizations do not have mechanisms in place to protect, secure and monitor APIs. This talk explains what API management is, why you need it, and how to successfully implement it within your organization.

Your leaders are telling you they want microservices, your vendors are promising to deliver microservices, your developers want to create microservices. But, what is microservices architecture? Where should you use it, and where should you not? How do you successfully implement microservices? This talk provides answers to key client questions on microservices architecture.

BAD decisions are Best Available Data decisions. This session introduces information-generating and decision-making techniques that architects can use to reduce risk and uncertainty in architecture decisions: Architectural Spikes, Decision Typing, Economic Frameworks, and Lightweight FMEA.