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Culture & Methods

GitHub’s Journey from Monolith to Microservices

This article explores GitHub's recent journey towards a microservices architecture. It takes a deeper look at GitHub’s historical and current state, goes over some internal and external factors, and discusses practical consideration points in how Github tackled their migration, including key concepts and best practices of implementing microservices architecture.

Sha Ma
on Jul 28, 2021
Culture & Methods

DEI Is Rooted in Justice: Stop Making it about Profit

Diversity, equity, and inclusion practices exist for the betterment of every single person within a company from the ground floor to the glass ceilings. Don't build a case for diversity, equity, and inclusion. You are an establishment that depends on other humans to operate your business and bring success. Their sense of belonging, inclusion, and psychological safety is your direct responsibility.

Chanita Simms-Christmas
on Jul 16, 2021
DevOps

Paving the Road to Production

Coinbase has gotten much from its deploy pipelines. We deploy thousands of servers across hundreds of projects per day, to serve our millions of customers and their billions in assets. This article explores the journey Coinbase took to get where it is now, it describes their paved roads and how they've had to change over time in response to their company growing.

Graham Jenson
on Jul 06, 2021
Culture & Methods

Increasing Developer Effectiveness by Optimizing Feedback Loops

We can think of engineering as a series of feedback loops: simple tasks that developers do and then validate to get feedback, which might be by a colleague, a system (i.e. an automation) or an end user. Using a framework of feedback loops we have a way of measuring and prioritizing the improvements we need to do to optimize developer effectiveness.

Ben Linders Tim Cochran
on May 10, 2021
Culture & Methods

Leading during Times of High Uncertainty and Change

To help teams succeed during uncertain times, leaders need to navigate different horizons; managing themselves and building strong relationships with their teams. Organisations need leadership at all levels. In order to be successful, leaders should develop skills for self-management, delegation, dealing with ambiguity, managing in all directions, systems thinking, and leading through context.

Ben Linders Lena Reinhard
on Feb 24, 2021
Architecture & Design

Migrating Monoliths to Microservices with Decomposition and Incremental Changes

Microservices migrations are not a trivial change. You have to think carefully about whether or they're right for you. Maybe a monolith would be enough for your context and business needs. In this article, Sam Newman shares some decomposition and incremental changes patterns that can help you to evaluate and migrate to a microservices architecture.

Sam Newman Leandro Guimarães
on Feb 09, 2021
Emerging Technologies

Server-Side Wasm: Today and Tomorrow - Q&A with Connor Hicks

At QCon this year, Connor Hicks presented the opportunities linked to using Web Assembly outside of the browser. Hicks addressed current and future server-side use cases for WebAssembly. He explained how Wasm and its ecosystem allow developers to craft serverless applications by declaratively composing serverless functions written in different languages.

Connor Hicks Bruno Couriol
on Nov 24, 2020
Culture & Methods

Scaling Distributed Teams by Drawing Parallels from Distributed Systems

An effective distributed team’s characteristics are accountability, good communication, clear goals and expectations, a defined decision-making process, and autonomy with explicit norms. Ranganathan Balashanmugam spoke about scaling distributed teams around the world at QCon London 2020. In his talk he showed how we can apply distributed systems patterns for scaling distributed teams.

Ben Linders Ranganathan Balashanmugam
on Jul 31, 2020
Culture & Methods

Exploring Costs of Coordination During Outages - QCon London Q&A

Coordinating different skills, knowledge and experience is necessary for coping with complex, time-pressured events, but it incurs costs. Well-designed coordination is smooth and can be trained for. Learning how to take initiative, being observable to your counterparts and engaging in reciprocity are examples of strategies engineers can use to lower costs of coordination during outages.

Ben Linders Laura Maguire
on May 22, 2020
Culture & Methods

Leading through Experimentation in a Distributed Agile Organization

Change is our work as agile coaches and leaders. When your teams and organizations are distributed, experimentation becomes the primary tool to aid our change navigation. As online collaboration technologies improve and we begin to understand how flexibility and choice become critical in distributed work, modeling and teaching experimentation are important for agile coaches and all leaders.

Mark Kilby
on Apr 10, 2020
Architecture & Design

Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2020

QCon returned to London this past March for its fourteenth year in the city, attracting over 1,600 senior developers, architects, data engineers, team leads, and CTOs. This article provides a summary of the key takeaways.

Abel Avram
on Apr 07, 2020
Architecture & Design

Top Picks for QCon 2019

Wesley Reisz is the QCon Chair && Community Advocate for London, San Francisco, and New York. This article brings together his favourite talks 45 from the 2019 QCon series of conferences.

Wesley Resiz
on Dec 20, 2019