Track Overview

Effective Microservices: What It Takes to Get the Most Out of This Approach

Microservices can be a very effective approach to speeding up delivery of value to your organization and to your customers - if you get them right!

Early adopters of microservices have been doing them for long enough now that they know the approaches that allow you to build, secure, observe and operate large scale distributed systems.

On this track, we bring you their insights and experience, with particular focus on:

  • How to set up your organisation to make microservices successful
  • Designing security into your microservices
  • What you need to do to fight entropy as your microservice system matures
  • What it takes to successfully go from a monolith to microservices

Sarah Wells

Former Tech Director for Engineering Enablement @FT (Financial Times)

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Speakers from this track

Sam Newman

Microservice, Cloud, CI/CD Expert

Sam is a technologist focusing in the areas of cloud, microservices, and continuous delivery - three topics which seem to overlap frequently. Providing consulting, training and advisory services to startups and large multi-national enterprises alike, he has over 20 years in IT as a developer, sys...

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Anna Shipman

Technical Director for Customer Products @FinancialTimes

Anna Shipman is Technical Director for Customer Products at the Financial Times, leading on the award-winning FT.com website and the FT iPhone and Android apps.She has been a software developer for over 15 years. Before working at the FT, she was a technical architect and the UK...

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Stefania Chaplin

Solutions Architect @GitLab

Stefania’s experience as a Solutions Architect within Cybersecurity, DevSecOps and OSS governance means she's helped countless organisations understand and implement security throughout their SDLC. As a python developer at heart, Stefania enjoys optimising and improving operational...

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Selina Liu

Senior Software Engineer @Airbnb

Selina is a senior software engineer at Airbnb, the world’s largest platform for accommodation-sharing and unique travel experiences. She’s passionate about building performant and resilient services that scale and evolve well with Airbnb’s growing business needs. In her free...

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Track Host

Sarah Wells

Former Tech Director for Engineering Enablement @FT (Financial Times)

Sarah Wells has been a developer for 20 years, leading delivery teams across consultancy, financial services, and media. Building the FT's content and metadata publishing platform using a microservices-based architecture led her to develop a deep interest in operability, observability, and...

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