Steven Lauwereins

Steven Lauwereins was born in Leuven, Belgium in 1990. He received the B.S. and M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium in 2011 and 2013, respectively. From 2013 until his PhD graduation in 2018, he was a research assistant at the ESAT-MICAS Laboratories of KU Leuven focussed on ultra-low power IoT sensor nodes through efficient machine learning hardware. Since 2018, he is research lead at Televic Rail, Izegem, Belgium.

Microservices & Containers

Day 2 - 28th Nov 11:30-12:20 Hall 3.1 #J2D Advanced Novice

Applications are becoming more and more dynamic, with every month or even every week new
features being added or split out. Traditional application architectures have proven a nightmare to
build such dynamic systems in a reliable and fast way. Therefore, the architecture of applications is
moving more and more towards a microservice architecture.
Additionally, the high amount of users requiring different parts of the application backend requires a
more flexible approach then traditional virtualized servers. To this end, container based service
hosting has found a strong penetration in the market.
This session will discuss the approach of both methods, their similarities and their coupled and
synchronous rise in the market.