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Workshop: "Micro Services"

Track: Training / Time: Thursday 09:00 - 16:00 / Location: Uni 2

Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together” was accepted 40 years ago yet we have spent the last decade building monolithic applications, communicating via bloated middleware and with our fingers crossed that Moore’s Law keeps helping us out. There is a better way.

Micro services. In this tutorial we will discover a consistent and reinforcing set of tools and practices rooted in the the Unix Philosophy of small and simple. Tiny applications, communicating via the web’s uniform interface with single responsibilities and installed as well behaved operating system services. So, are you sick of wading through tens of thousands of lines of code to make a simple one line change? Of all that XML? Come along and check out what the cools kids are up to (and the cooler grey beards).

In this tutorial we will cover the following topics:

Principle-driven evolutionary architecture
Capability modelling and the town planning metaphor
REST, web integration and event-driven systems of systems
Micro services, versioning, consumer driven contracts and postels law
Testing, Building and continuous delivery
Operational concerns

James Lewis, Member of the ThoughtWorks Technical Advisory Board.

James Lewis

Biography: James Lewis

James Lewis is a Principle Consultant for ThoughtWorks based in the UK and a member of the ThoughtWorks Technical Advisory Board. Most recently he has been helping to introduce Agile at various blue chip companies: Investment Banks, Publishers and media organisations. Sometimes I even write software.
James studied Astrophysics in the 90's but got sick of programming in Fortran. Fourteen years of DBA, Java development, software design and software architecture later, he believes that writing software is the easy part of the problem. Most of the time it's about getting people thinking right.

Most recently, James has been spending his time helping ThoughtWorks' clients develop enterprise software as a coding architect and is particularly interested in the design of distributed systems and the web as middleware.

Sam Newman, Technical Consultant at ThoughtWorks

Sam Newman

Biography: Sam Newman

Sam Newman is a technical consultant at ThoughtWorks, where he has been for over nine years. As a consultant has worked with a variety of companies in multiple domains in the UK, Australia and the US. If you asked him what he does, he’d say ‘I work with people to build better software systems’.

He has written articles for O’Reilly, presented at conferences, and sporadically commits to open source projects. While Java used to be his bread and butter, he also spends lots of time with Ruby, Python, Javascript, and Clojure, Infrastructure Automation and Cloud systems.