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…

Craig joins Darren Rogan, Ben Morgan and Leigh Appel in another special cross over episode with the Hack && Heckle Podcast to talk software development, Agile and preview the upcoming YOW! conference that will be covered by both podcasts.

This episode has been released simulatenously as H&&H 131 – Hack and Heckle / Agile Revolution Discuss the YOW! Conference.

Discussion points included:

• A discussion about our upcoming 100th episode
• a discussion about behind the scenes of organising and schedulinf the YOW! 2015 conference
• YOW! 2015 speakers and topics including: Adrian Cockroft, Troy Hunt, Aaron Bedra, microservices, Pragmatic Dave Thomas, Anita Sengupta, Dan North, Dean Wapler and Docker
• Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Development
• YOW! 2014 videos
• YOW! Bubs – childcare at a technical conference
• The YOW! tour and Brisbane
• Windows 10 upgrades
• The pros and cons of Scala and FORTRAN versus Java

TheAgileRevolution-98 (50 minutes)