Episode 102: The Essence of Microservices (and Agile) with Scott Shaw

25/01/201625/01/2016 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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…

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Episode 98: The Heckle Revolution YOW! 2015 Edition

09/12/201509/12/2015 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

The Agile Revolution Podcast

YOW_2015_Conference_-stacked-PNG 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)

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Mik Kersten on Current and Future ALM Trends

16/11/201516/11/2015 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Mik Kersten talks about current and future trends in ALM and the support for approaches like large scale Agile, DevOps, Docker, Big Data, functional languages and the Internet of Things.