Notes from YOW! 2014: Scott Shaw on ‘Avoiding Speedbumps on the Road to Microservices’

I attended YOW! Sydney 2014 and thought some people might get something useful out of my notes. These aren’t my complete reinterpretations of every slide, but just things I jotted down that I thought were interesting enough to remember or look into further.

A "Speed Bump Ahead" sign, akin to Scott Shaw's warnings in his microservices talkScott Shaw (@scottwshaw), Head of Technology at Thoughtworks, spoke about “three of the biggest issues that microservice teams encounter”. (Slides)

Scott began by listing the following as “Basics”:

He said, “If you don’t know about these things you should at least google them before you start doing micro services.”

The speed bumps he talked about were:

  • Data aggregation
  • Access Control & Security
  • Managing Change

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