14:30 - 15:20

1) Microservices - with Monolith and other Diseases (Felix Müller)

Ongoing microservice transition since 2 years. Rotting distributed monolith in the background and still alive. And independent development teams as our ultimate goal. Join our journey to Microtopia. In this talk I show you which problems we had to solve at E-Post since our microservice transition started. How do we set up 10 teams and empower them to work independently on their services? And which nifty challenges arise when you try to adapt your organizational structure to microservice architecture style. There is no silver bullet. I talk about our solutions and experiences with architectural constraints, technology stacks and humans.

2) Challenges in adopting microservices for an internal service eco-sytem in a large corporation. (Shahzada Hatim)

Before his current assignment the speaker had a year long opportunity to work for a corporation where microservices were chosen as the primary method of encouraging software re-use among independent business initiatives. The speaker and his team faced many challenges in adopting microservices architecture on top of the usual riddles of corporate software development. The challenges presented in this talk are specific to the case being described. However there are some learning pertinent for audience at large which this lightning-talk will summarise.

3) Why microservices are not worth it! -- the long list of tradeoffs (Florian Thiel)

Architecture decisions always involve tradeoffs. A Conway-structured organization, risk reduction through small services and massive scalability sound like dream-come-true arguments for abandoning your monolith and joining the microservice camp. Although nobody expects the transition to miroservices to be easy, I will argue that there is a very long list of often overlooked (or deemed very cheap) challenges. And maybe there is room for compromises...