Tony and Craig are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and catch up with Rebecca Parsons, the Chief Technology Officer at ThoughtWorks and the co-author of “Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change” and chat about the following:

• Rebecca’s keynote talk at YOW! “The Past and Future of Evolutionary Architecture“
• Evolutionary Architecture is the next stage on applying Agile practices to software development at the systems level and be able to respond to changes in the environment that affect the architecture
• Need to determine for your system what constitutes good, fitness functions are the documentation and tests to ensure your system meets those characteristics
• Need to move the needle on architecture, need to develop tools and techniques to decompose the role
• Agile Alliance is looking at what it means to truly be an international organisation (there are now affiliates in Brazil and New Zealand), expanding conferences from…

Tony and Craig are at YOW! Conference and in the hallway ambush Scott Shaw, the Director of Technology (Australia) at ThoughtWorks and talk about the state of microservices and Agile:

• Scott’s YOW! talk “Avoiding Speedbumps on the Road to Microservices“
• Microservices are just a different way to build applications that get away from monoliths
• Beth Skurrie, Evan Bottcher, Jon Eaves case study at YOW! – “The Odyssey – From Monoliths to Microservices at realestate.com.au“
• Essentials for microservices include Domain Driven Design, security and identity and change management
• Simon Brown talk at YOW! – “Agility and the Essence of Software Architecture“
• Cloud and infrastructure as code has changed the way we look at applications and have allowed microservices
• The essence of Agile is the team taking ownership of the business success of whatever it is they are building and keeping that ownership over the longer…