Tony and Craig are at YOW! Conference and in the hallway ambush Scott Shaw, the Director of Technology (Australia) at ThoughtWorks and talk about the state of microservices and Agile:

• Scott’s YOW! talk “Avoiding Speedbumps on the Road to Microservices“
• Microservices are just a different way to build applications that get away from monoliths
• Beth Skurrie, Evan Bottcher, Jon Eaves case study at YOW! – “The Odyssey – From Monoliths to Microservices at realestate.com.au“
• Essentials for microservices include Domain Driven Design, security and identity and change management
• Simon Brown talk at YOW! – “Agility and the Essence of Software Architecture“
• Cloud and infrastructure as code has changed the way we look at applications and have allowed microservices
• The essence of Agile is the team taking ownership of the business success of whatever it is they are building and keeping that ownership over the longer term
• Microservices take advantage of Conway’s Law – the teams closest to the systems should own them or change your structure to mimic the systems you want to look after
• There should be no difference between maintenance and evolution – it is all one of the thing that goes towards the success of the business
• Adrian Cockcroft defines microservices as “a service-oriented architecture composed of loosely coupled elements that have bounded contexts”
• Microservices should be no bigger than a concept that fits in your head
• Sam Newman book “Building Microservices“
• Agile approaches that are evolving include Docker and functional programming languages (especially Scala, Clojure and Go), the importance of craftsmanship and skills
• Defending the Free Internet
• ThoughtWorks Technology Radar
• Microservices in a Nutshell by Martin Fowler and James Lewis

TheAgileRevolution-102 (28 minutes)