2016 DockerCon 16, TR - Josh

Highlights

Mac and Windows now open beta (check this out, makes it much smoother on the mac)
Mac and Windows support for controlling Swarms in AWS and Azure
Orchestration now built in (swarm)
Experimental Application Bundles (might be useful for sending people demos where internet is unreliable)
Marketplace

Micro-service Architecture and Docker's enabling of it was a highlight of much of the conference - both in keynotes and in sessions. http://www.theserverside.com/news/450298801/Docker-microservices-grab-the-spotlight-at-DockerCon-2016

Chris Richardson gave a good presentation on Micro-service architecture, and a bit how it lined up with Docker. He brought up the natural fit with event sourcing and pointed us to http://learnmicroservices.io/ . This is the same stuff that's been talked a lot about in Domain Driven design and it's something we tried to adopt in v2 stock management module, and something we all could improve upon.
Michele Titolo gave a good, no-nonsense, presentation on "Friendly Microservices". She stressed documentation (lots and lots), resiliency, monitoring at multiple levels (both self-reporting and inspection), designing contracts and one service doing one thing well. This was perhaps the most relevant presentation to our immediate project needs and I found myself nodding my head quite a bit. Monitoring is something we should certainly discuss more, and when it makes sense to add it. TODO: add slides
Andrey Sibiryov gave an interesting presentation that's not high on our priority but was really interesting - using containers and load balancing at the CPU core level as a method to help the CPU manage resource allocation inside it's own network. Really neat concept and some pretty cool performance improvements were the results.