Live Webinar February 9th, 2016 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

If you’re puzzled by the newest generation of frontend architectures, you’re not alone.

• Will Reactive programming be the default choice for modern apps?
• When would you want to use event emitters as opposed to event streams with operators?

Luca Mezzalira answers these questions and more as he provides a detailed tour of frontend architectures, including where they’ve been and where we’re headed.

In this webinar you will:

1. Begin with an overview of architectures from MVC, MVP, and MVVM to the modern component systems like Flux and React.
2. Take a look at the evolution of architectures, beginning with a central event emitter or publish/subscribe system that’s currently used in JavaScript libraries and frameworks.
3. Contrast these with Reactive programming and channels communication that’s offered by CSP (Communicating Sequential Processes).
4. Understand if and when to use each particular paradigm.

Specific topics include:

• A review of current event-driven architectures
• An introduction to CSP
• Using channels for communication
• Sequential and parallel communication
• An introduction to Reactive programming
• How to use streams

This webcast is ideal for senior frontend developers, lead developers, tech leads, solutions architects, CTOs, and any developer who would like to understand more about Reactive programming.

Presenter: Luca Mezzalira (LinkedIn profile, O’Reilly bio) is a passionate keynote speaker and Solutions Architect with a decade of experience on front end technologies  (Haxe, Flash, Flex, AIR, Lua and Swift), cutting edge projects for mobile (iOS, Android, Blackberry), and desktop, web, TVs, set top boxes and embedded devices.  Certified as: Certified Scrum Master and SAFe Agilist, Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor on Flash, Flex, and AIR.  Mezzalira is also the Community Manager of the London Javascript User Group.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.2 Define Activities
• 9.3 Develop Project Team

As a Category C, ‘Self Directed Learning’, activity remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder.’

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Next Generation Of Front-End Architectures

Live Webinar February 2nd, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

API Caching

The extensible reach of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) has enabled enterprises to transform countless business processes into web services with seemingly limitless scale and reach.

Or has it?

This talk will introduce unique API caching methods to address the common performance and scalability challenges experienced by providers of RESTful APIs, and also discuss how cached APIs can protect against the latest security threats to web infrastructure at scale.

By gleaning insights from Fastly’s vast insight into the full range of web attacks against both its customers and itself, this talk will update on current web exploits and attacks, as well as analyze some of the latest attack profiles.

It will also cover some of the latest improvements in Web PKI (SSL/TLS) that a website should absolutely be using for their web and API stack.

Attendees will learn what online resources lack in detail about how to configure SSL/TLS amid continued turmoil around governments snooping on end user traffic, including the proper setup to make sure web application end users are protected.

The ability to cache whole APIs, is a relatively new way to extend and scale API-based app architecture, without without sacrificing performance or security.

This talk will offer attendees a first opportunity to learn how to configure and automate API caching for maximum performance and broad protection.

Presenter: Sean Leach  BSc (LinkedIn profile) is in charge of product management, product marketing and strategy as VP of Products at Fastly. Previously Sean held the positions of VP, Technology for Verisign, CTO of name.com, and Sr. Director at Neustar. Seans current research focus is on DNS, DDOS, Web / network performance, Internet infrastructure and combating the massive Internet security epidemic.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 11.2 Identify Risks
• 11.3 Plan Risk Responses

As a Category C, ‘Self Directed Learning’, activity remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder.’

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Extending App Architecture Performance & Security

Live Webinar February 2nd, 2016 – 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST
A Microsoft Worldwide Event Presenter: Brightwork
Duration: 30 Minutes 0.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Better Collaborative Project Management
Means Better Projects!

The project collaboration capabilities in SharePoint 2013, including the two-way sync to Microsoft Project Professional, make it an invincible platform for collaborative project management.

See how you can use SharePoint and Project together to:

1. Start with a simple project schedule with tasks, issues & deliverables
2. Evolve to a more complex project structure and schedule
3. Extend SharePoint to manage across projects with portfolio dashboards, metrics & automated reports

Join Jonathan Wiesglass (LinkedIn profile) Customer Success Architect at Brightwork as he shows you better Collaborative management techniques with SharePoint &  MS Project!

Bonus Content: See what’s new with Project 2016!

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 6 – Time 10 – Communications

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.6 Develop Schedule

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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SharePoint + MS Project = The Perfect Combination
For Project Collaboration

Live Webinar – February 2nd, 2016 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hours + QA – 1 Category C Self Directed Learning PDUs
Presented by: SD Times (Software Development Times)

How ING Streamlined & Increased Software Deployments To Twice a Day

Enterprises are realizing that doing DevOps right requires a streamlined Continuous Delivery pipeline that spans many groups beyond Dev and Ops.

Finding a way to automate and control modern DevOps processes while maintaining visibility is a huge a challenge.

Join Andreas (A.J.) Prins, (LinkedIn profile) IT Manager at ING and Andrew Phillips, (LinkedIn profile) VP of DevOps Strategy at XebiaLabs, as they discuss the challenges enterprises are facing and offer actionable advice.

Andreas & Andrew will show you how to:

• More easily manage complex, distributed releases across technical and non-technical teams
• Gain better control and oversight of your DevOps automation and overall software delivery process
• Provide visibility into your Continuous Delivery process for everyone involved in your DevOps initiative
• Release more quickly, identify bottlenecks, reduce errors and lower the risk of release failures

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Work
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality
• 8.2 Perform Quality Assurance

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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Software Release Orchestration & The Enterprise

Live Webinar January 26th, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

In this webcast Jay McGavren will show how to use the powerful functionality built into Ruby, and how to install new libraries with even greater capabilities.

jay will demonstrate how to process complex data using arrays and blocks, how to use the CSV library (included with Ruby) to load spreadsheets, and how to install the Sinatra gem so you can build a simple web app.

Presenter:  Jay McGavren (LinkedIn profile, O’Reilly bio) is the author of Head First Ruby, from O’Reilly (released November 2015). He’s been working in the online developer education industry since 2011, and speaks regularly at tech conferences.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.2 Define Activities
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management
• 9.3 Develop Project Team

As a Category C, ‘Self Directed Learning’, activity remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder.’

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Leveraging Ruby Libraries

Live Webinar January 5th, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

Terraform is an infrastructure as code management tool developed by HashiCorp and released in 2014.

It provides a standard configuration language for declaring infrastructure resources from a variety of services including AWS, Google, Openstack, and DigitalOcean.

This standard configuration allows for declaring service agnostic infrastructure that is deployed across multiple providers.

Once declared, Terraform tracks the state of resources and manages the actions necessary to maintain the declared configuration.

John will:

• Introduce you toTerraform and it’s underlying provider
  • It’s resource models
  • It’s configuration language,
  • And discuss it’s reusable modules,
• Demonstrate shared infrastructure using remote state.
• And discuss extending Terraform’s capabilities through it’s provider plugin API.

Presenter:  John Engelman (LinkedIn profile) is a sought after industry speaker and ObjectPartner’s Chief Technologist for DevOps. John is the author of the Shadow plugin for Gradle, one of the most widely used community plugins.  Consulting on continuous integration and deployment pipelines, cloud architecture, automation builds, application monitoring, John is also a regular open source contributor including projects such as Ratpack, Gradle, and Terraform.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

Click to register for Managing Infrastructure As Code With Terraform