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Kelly Sutton

I've Made a Huge Mistake: We Did Services All Wrong

Synopsis

In the recent years, microservices have been an investment among many engineering teams as they scale. They are often the default of many new companies. But how has that gone wrong?

This talk will dive into how one company refined their thinking on their service-based architecture for the better. It will cover reasoning about services; drawing boundaries in large Rails applications; the differences between services and applications; and when to finally extract a new application.

Biography

Kelly is an engineering manager at Gusto. In the past, he created LayerVault, Designer News, and a blog for college students. He is currently based in San Francisco, CA. He regularly writes blog posts about software engineering at https://kellysutton.com