Scale, Flow and Microservices • James Lewis • GOTO 2021

This presentation was recorded at GOTOpia February 2021. #GOTOcon #GOTOpia http://gotopia.eu James Lewis - Software architect and director at ThoughtWorks ABSTRACT Recent research summarised in the book Accelerate points to a set of practices that lead to high software development organization performance. Simultaneously, research from the Santa Fe Institute on complex adaptive systems over the last 20 years seems to point to a grand unified theory of organizational design and software architecture. "So have we cracked it? Do we now have the answer to the question: how do we create and scale high performing software and organizations?" In this talk, James explores this research and takes a look at the surprising links between organizations, microservices, elephants [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 08:29 What do mice and elephants have in common? 10:18 What do Newsagents and Walmart have in common? 11:13 What do Hamburg and Leipzig have in common? 15:11 Complex adaptive systems 16:15 3 simple principles 18:07 Complex adaptive systems are everywhere 19:14 The most famous scaling law 21:50 Corporate metabolism 22:18 Why do metabolic rates slow as size increases? 27:20 Flow of work in organizations 29:05 Identifying the signs of ageing 30:37 Corporate mortality 31:41 The alchemist's stone 35:43 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotopia.eu/february-2021/sessions/1662/scale-flow-and-microservices RECOMMENDED BOOKS Sam Newman • Monolith to Microservices • https://amzn.to/2Nml96E Sam Newman • Building Microservices • https://amzn.to/3dMPbOs Ronnie Mitra & Irakli Nadareishvili • Microservices: Up and Running• https://amzn.to/3c4HmmL Mitra, Nadareishvili, McLarty & Amundsen • Microservice Architecture • https://amzn.to/3fVNAb0 Chris Richardson • Microservices Patterns • https://amzn.to/2SOnQ7h Adam Bellemare • Building Event-Driven Microservices • https://amzn.to/3yoa7TZ https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #Microservices #SoftwareArchitecture #MicroservicesArchitecture #Scale #Flow #CorporateLifecycle #ThoughtWorks Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1