At Yelp we value our ability to quickly ship code. One key factor in scaling our engineering process to over three hundred engineers and several million lines of Python has been our move to a microservices architecture; over the course of the past four years we've gone from zero to over one hundred production microservices. During this process we've had to solve many difficult technical issues, but some of the most interesting challenges have involved the human side of engineering.

In this presentation John will start by discussing how to win over those in your organization who are skeptical about the benefits of microservices. The talk will also include tips on educating developers on the aspects of distributed systems that are inherent to a microservices architecture (caching, dealing with failures, performing backwards compatible interface changes etc.). John will then go into the potential problems with a centralized operations model in a microservices architecture, and how to smoothly transition to a world where developers share responsibility for site operations.