Keynotes

Keynote - Rip It Up And Start Again

Sam Newman @ Sam Newman & Associates
June 14th, 2021, 15:05–16:30 CEST

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Abstract

Much of the attention for microservice architectures tends to focus on the technical aspects. But when you look into the details of organisations that have benefited from this approach you realise that there is more to getting the most out of microservices than lots of shinny new technology.

In this talk, Sam will show how organisational structures and team responsibilities may need to change if you want to get the most out of adopting a microservice architecture. Looking at traditional IT structures and comparing them with the modern autonomous delivery teams, he’ll explore how to get the organisation and architecture working well together. From Conway’s law to Dunbar’s number, stream-aligned to two pizza teams, you’ll see how you can start to apply these ideas inside your own company.

Speaker's Bio

After spending time at multiple startups and 12 years at ThoughtWorks, Sam Newman is now an independent consultant. Specializing in microservices, cloud, and continuous delivery, Sam helps clients deliver software faster and more reliably through training and consulting. An experienced speaker, Sam has given talks at conferences across the world and is the author of Monolith to Microservices, and the forthcoming Building Microservices, 2nd edition, both from O'Reilly.

Keynote - Evolving Monoliths to Microservices

Joseph Yoder & Paulo Merson @ respectively, The Refactory & Brazilian Federal Court of Accounts (TCU)
June 14th, 2021, 19:00–19:45 CEST

Abstract

Many Microservices architectures start from the evolution of a Monolith system by gradually applying the microservices architectural style. There are considerations and principles that assist with successfully evolving from a monolith to Microservices. Deciding what to decouple along with when and how to incrementally evolve a system are the main architectural challenges in this process. There are good principles that help with this evolutionary process. For example, it is important to commit to “stop adding to the monolith” - all new code is added as microservices. The new features are microservices, occasionally replacing part of the monolith. Also, there might be important pieces of the monolith that are getting hard to maintain and you want to pull these out. When this happens, you find design seams within the monolith, which can be refactored out to components that can ultimately be replaced with microservices. This is the core of the “Strangler Pattern”. Beyond the strangling of a monolith, there are other considerations for organizations that make the strategic move to microservices, such as operational readiness and technical skills. Early on, it is ok to create macro services first and then evolve (refactor) them to microservices. Also, when writing new microservices code, it is important to avoid dependencies to the monolith. This talk will examine various scenarios when evolving from the monolith to microservices specifically with variations of the Strangler Pattern.

Speaker Bios

Joseph (Joe) Yoder (agilist, computer scientist, speaker, and pattern author) is the founder and principal of The Refactory (www.refactory.com), a company focused on software architecture, design, implementation, consulting, and mentoring on all facets of software development. Joe is also the president of The Hillside Group, a non-profit dedicated to improving the quality of life of everyone who uses, builds, and encounters software systems. Joe has presented many tutorials and talks, arranged workshops, given keynotes, and helped organize leading international agile and technical conferences. He is best known as an author of the Big Ball of Mud pattern, which illuminates many fallacies in software architecture. Joe teaches and mentors developers on Agile and lean practices, architecture, building flexible systems, clean design, patterns, refactoring, and testing. Recently Joe has been working with organizations and thought leaders on the best practices for including quality aspects throughout the complete software life-cycle. Joe was recently a co-author of "A Scrum Book: The Spirit of the Game" which includes 96 patterns for getting the most out of Scrum. Currently he is working on a book for Cloud Adoption Patterns with some colleagues. Joe thinks software is still too hard to change and wants to do something about this. He believes using good practices (patterns), putting the ability to change software into the hands of the people with the knowledge to change it, and bringing the business side closer to the development process helps solve this problem.

Paulo Merson has been programming in the small and programming in the large for over 30 years. He is a developer at the Brazilian Federal Court of Accounts (TCU). He is also a Visiting Scientist with the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), adjunct faculty in the Masters of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon University, and a faculty member of the master program in Applied Computing at University of Brasilia. Paulo often delivers professional training to fellow developers in the US, Latin America, and Europe. His speaking experience also includes tutorials at DDD Europe, OOP, JavaOne, SPLASH/OOPSLA, SD Best Practices, SATURN, Dr. Dobb’s Architecture & Design World, lectures to graduate students in different universities, and invited talks at different companies. He is co-author of Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond, 2nd edition. Paulo holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University of Brasilia and a Master of Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.