Craig is at YOW! Lambda Jam in Sydney and speaks with Naresh Jain, co-founder of the Agile Software Community of India (organising body of Agile India), conference organiser of many other software conferences in India and creator of ConfEngine and they chat about:

• The original Test Infected article
• Cruise Control started as an idea to write a cron job to check out code, compile and run tests
• Without good processes and tools the individuals and interactions become much harder
• Agile India conference – running since 2005, one of the earliest Agile conferences
• Agile is a given way to do things, but we are still not seeing the benefits – need to build capability in user first / product thinking, need autonomy to deliver end-to-end customer value (startups within a startup), need to build a learning culture and expert people / craftsmanship and need to focus on continuous delivery

Craig is at YOW! Conference and has a conversation with James Lewis, best known for his work around microservices at ThoughtWorks. They discuss:

• “Microservices: a definition of this new architectural term” article with Martin Fowler
• Huge cycle of hype around the term “microservices”
• You have to run so fast to keep up with the great people at ThoughtWorks you end up accidentally doing interesting things
• Cruise Control became Cruise that became GoCD which was open source then went commercial and then went back open source
• Extreme Programming (XP) is complementarianism – the sum is greater than the parts
• YOW! 2015 talk “Microservices – Building Software that is #neverdone“
• Microservices – systems that are composed of parts that you can independently throw away – the analogy of “My Family’s Axe” (Terry Pratchett)
• Business and architecture isomorphism – if you look at your architecture you should be able…