Craig is at YOW! Conference and has a conversation with James Lewis, best known for his work around microservices at ThoughtWorks. They discuss:

• “Microservices: a definition of this new architectural term” article with Martin Fowler
• Huge cycle of hype around the term “microservices”
• You have to run so fast to keep up with the great people at ThoughtWorks you end up accidentally doing interesting things
• Cruise Control became Cruise that became GoCD which was open source then went commercial and then went back open source
• Extreme Programming (XP) is complementarianism – the sum is greater than the parts
• YOW! 2015 talk “Microservices – Building Software that is #neverdone“
• Microservices – systems that are composed of parts that you can independently throw away – the analogy of “My Family’s Axe” (Terry Pratchett)
• Business and architecture isomorphism – if you look at your architecture you should be able to see your business represented in it and vice-versa
• Disruption is causing organisations to think about organisational design as well as architectural design
• Microservices is a style that is applicable for certain circumstances, it is not one size fits all – follow the 16th rule of Unix programming “distrust all claims for one true way”
• For microservices, Amazon and AWS was the game-changer
• If you are not building software using the Agile practices these days, you have probably gone down “the wrong trouser leg of history”
• Lean Enterprise is an evolution and description of current thinking
• Geek crushes on Don Reinertsen and Dan North
• Agile methods need to focus on flow rather than scaling and structure
• ThoughtWorks Technology Radar – point in time snapshot on what is going on in current projects, throw systematic darts at the wall, vote on over 300 items to whittle down to 100 items,
• Stationery driven decision making – sticky notes!
• Sam Newman book “Building Microservices”

TheAgileRevolution-120 (31 minutes)