Microservices
Past Presentations
Design Microservice Architectures the Right Way
Learn from first hand, deep experience, the most critical decisions we face in building successful microservice architectures: how to think about the tradeoffs that impact the productivity of our teams and the quality of our software. In particular, understand how to avoid creating an...
Digital Publishing for Scale: The Economist and Go
The Economist newspaper was first printed in 1843. Since then, readers consume news in rapidly evolving ways and technology has taken the forefront in delivering content and enabling the severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our...
Autonomous Microservices
Everybody loves microservices, but it's difficult to do it right. Distributed systems are much more complex to develop and maintain. Over time, you may even miss the simplicity of old monoliths. In this session, I propose a combination of infrastructure, architecture, and design principles to...
Managing Data in Microservices
This session is about the hard stuff -- managing data in microservices -- and about sharing proven patterns that have been successful at Google, eBay, and Stitch Fix. It begins with a quick tour of some prerequisites for being successful with microservices -- an organization of small teams with...
Continuous Delivery of Microservices
Microservice architectures are generating a lot of interest lately. These architectures are seen as a way to decompose the complexity of monolithic systems. One of the key benefit of microservice architectures is the agility with which organizations can ship features, reducing time to market....
Interviews
No Microservice Is an Island
You worked at Capital One first and then switched over to Square. So what were you working on at Capital One?
At Capital One, I was working on the first layer of services that our mobile app and website hit. Any new mobile or web request would first reach the service owned by my team. This service implemented security and customisation logic and then made a server request to the broader Capital one ecosystem. Capital One has a lot of...
Read Full InterviewDesigning Events-First Microservices
How would you describe the persona and level of the target audience?
My talk is for programmers and architects (from beginners to experienced) that are interested in and intrigued by event-driven systems and event-driven architecture.
Read Full InterviewSkype's Journey From P2P: It's Not Just About the Services
What is the work that you do today at Skype?
I’m managing teams that handle the people infrastructure, contacts, identity, experimentation, and push notifications for Skype and Teams.
Read Full InterviewForced Evolution: Shopify's Journey to Kubernetes
What’s the focus of your work today?
I'm on the cloud platform team. Mostly I'm working with Kubernetes. The main goal is to make sure our platform for developers is working. That may mean that I'm debugging some issues with Docker or Kubernetes, or I’m writing Golang to automate the platform. Today, I'm actually working on improving our cluster life cycle, we are...
Read Full InterviewDesign Microservice Architectures the Right Way
Can you give us a teaser of what to expect in this talk?
We will go step by step and talk about the investment needed to run a successful microservice platform, touching on everything from contracts, events, data structure, shared libraries, deployment, isolation, monitoring, etc.
Read Full InterviewDigital Publishing for Scale: The Economist and Go
Would you describe your work at The Economist?
I am the lead engineer for the content platform team at The Economist. We deliver content to different products within The Economist (as well as to our external consumers). Our team is responsible for adding new features to the content platform thereby helping the business build new products.
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