Schedule: Anti-Pattern sessions

There are many good reasons to use a microservices architecture, but there are no free lunches. The advantages of microservices come with added complexity. Teams should happily take on that complexity…provided the application in question benefits from the upside of microservices. Nathaniel Schutta cuts through the hype to help you make the right choice for your unique situation. Read more.

A loosely coupled software architecture and an organizational structure to match is one of the biggest predictors of continuous delivery performance. Nick Tune explains why technical leaders must adopt a sociotechnical mindset to minimize dependencies and maximize team autonomy, optimizing end-to-end value creation and delivery speed. Read more.

Anuar Nurmakanov shares his team’s journey with DDD from the very beginning of a project and outlines the many problems they faced. He then details some anti-patterns to be afraid of and how to deal with them, DDD best practices, and how DDD and microservices ideas can leave together. Read more.

While most of us think our software designs are based in rational, logical thought, the truth is much scarier. Ian Varley covers the emerging field of cognitive biases—bugs in our mental operating system—and takes a cold, hard look at how these mental blind spots defeat our attempts to build systems that serve our users and stand the test of time. Read more.

After an expensive failed attempt at a complete rewrite, Ticketmaster is attempting to evolve the monolith that is its core ticketing platform. Cat Swetel isn't talking about best practices for DevOpsing your monolith; she tells the true story of one company’s journey toward a more flexible, adaptable, and easily maintainable architecture using tools like Wardley Maps and real options theory. Read more.

There are two common architectural failure modes: hierarchical command and control from ivory-tower architects with strict approvals and rigorous control gates, and chaos with every team doing what they want with little governance. Jonny LeRoy explores the Goldilocks zone that ensures that teams handle organizational risks and opportunities while giving themselves as much autonomy as possible. Read more.

An application gateway is a piece of infrastructure that helps existing software systems incrementally adopt new technologies like microservices and serverless. It's not as single purposed as an API gateway and not as complicated as a full-service mesh and provides immediate value. Christian Posta explores this emerging pattern. Read more.

A free puppy is great but also takes a lot of time, energy, and money. Likewise, when we make a build-versus-buy calculation, it's easy to miss several important parts of the calculation, including maintenance, updating, security, availability, and finding operators. None of those are easy to articulate or value for either side. Join Heidi Waterhouse to learn why business value is more than money. Read more.