Microservices are here to stay.
15 years ago when Microservices architectures first appeared on the scene, many organisations expressed doubts that loosely coupled services would work for them.
The tide has long since turned. Services we use every day like Gmail, Netflix and Amazon are entirely reliant on Microservices, with even some of the most traditional industries have embraced and integrated Microservices.
It's clear that Microservices aren't going anywhere: A 2021 IBM survey† found that 56% of organisations are very likely or likely to adopt a microservices approach in the next two years.
Join us at the Microservices Forum where we'll welcome 3 of the world's top Microservice experts — Chris Richardson, James Lewis and Sarah Wells — to discuss what's next in Microservices, and explore what it means to work and live in an increasingly decoupled world.
Microservices Forum features keynotes from
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Chris Richardson
Experienced software architect, author of POJOs in Action, the creator of the original CloudFoundry.com
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James Lewis
Software Architect and Director at ThoughtWorks
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Sarah Wells
Technology leader, consultant, and conference speaker
The Microservices Forum will be an online conference.
This event begins at 09:00 UTC

Ticket holders will also receive exclusive access to recordings of all sessions. These recordings will be available shortly after the event, allowing you to watch the conference at your convenience.
Who should attend?
Software Developers and Engineers
Software Architects
Site Reliability Engineer
Quality Analysts and Testers
Team Leads and Engineering Managers/Directors
CIOs and CTOs
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Day 1: Forum Schedule
LIVE Sessions: All About Microservices
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WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS |
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Dark energy and dark matter are useful metaphors for the repulsive forces, which encourage decomposition into services, and the attractive forces, which resist decomposition. You must balance these conflicting forces when defining a microservice architecture including when designing system operations (a.k.a. requests) that span services. In this talk, I describe the dark energy and dark matter forces. You will learn how to design system operations that span services using microservice architecture collaboration patterns: Saga, Command-side replica, API composition, and CQRS patterns. I describe how each of these patterns resolve the dark energy and dark matter forces differently.
architecture-and-design
patterns
cqrs
api-composition
command-side-replica
saga
decomposition
microservices
About the speaker...Chris RichardsonChris Richardson is a developer and architect. He is a Java Champion, and a recognized thought leader in the microservice. Chris is the creator of Microservices.io, a pattern language for Microservice, and is the author of the book Microservice Patterns, which is available from Manning. He provides Microservices consulting and training to organizations that are adopting the Microservice architecture and is working on his third startup Eventuate, an application platform for developing Transactional Microservices. |
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Research from the Santa Fe institute on Complex Adaptive Systems over the last 20 years seems to point to a grand unified theory of organisational design. So have we cracked it? Do we now have the answer to the question: how do we create and scale high performing software and organisations?
architecture-and-design
high-performing-teams
complexity-science
team-topologies
About the speaker...James LewisJames is a Software Architect and Director at ThoughtWorks based in the UK. He’s proud to have been a part of Thoughtworks’ journey for over fifteen years and its ongoing mission of delivering technical excellence for its clients and in amplifying positive social change for an equitable future. As a member of the Thoughtworks Technical Advisory Board, the group that creates the Technology Radar, he contributes to industry adoption of open source and other tools, techniques, platforms, and languages. He is an internationally recognised expert on software architecture and design and on its intersection with organisational design and lean product development. As such he’s been a guest editor for IEEE Software, written articles, delivered training, and spoken at more conferences than he can remember. James defined the new Microservices architectural style back in 2014 along with Martin Fowler. Currently, the Microservices industry is worth in excess of $20 billion annually. James’ primary consulting focus these days is on helping organisations with technology strategy, distributed systems design and adoption of SOA. He freely admits that it’s only by standing on the shoulders of giants that he’s been able to make the contributions to the industry that he has. |
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Microservices can be a very effective approach to speeding up delivery of value to your organisation and to your customers. If you get them right.
architecture-and-design
microservices
About the speaker...Sarah WellsSarah is a technology leader, consultant and conference speaker with a focus on microservices, engineering enablement, observability and devops. She has over 20 years experience as a developer, principal engineer and tech director across product, platform, SRE and devops teams. She spent over a decade at the Financial Times, leading as it transformed into a true cloud native organisation, releasing code 250 times as often and embracing autonomous empowered teams. She is currently writing a book about Enabling Microservice Success for O’Reilly. Find Sarah on twitter: @sarahjwells |
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Day 2: Recast
A replay of sessions for our APAC members
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Dark energy and dark matter are useful metaphors for the repulsive forces, which encourage decomposition into services, and the attractive forces, which resist decomposition. You must balance these conflicting forces when defining a microservice architecture including when designing system operations (a.k.a. requests) that span services. In this talk, I describe the dark energy and dark matter forces. You will learn how to design system operations that span services using microservice architecture collaboration patterns: Saga, Command-side replica, API composition, and CQRS patterns. I describe how each of these patterns resolve the dark energy and dark matter forces differently.
architecture-and-design
patterns
cqrs
api-composition
command-side-replica
saga
decomposition
microservices
About the speaker...Chris RichardsonChris Richardson is a developer and architect. He is a Java Champion, and a recognized thought leader in the microservice. Chris is the creator of Microservices.io, a pattern language for Microservice, and is the author of the book Microservice Patterns, which is available from Manning. He provides Microservices consulting and training to organizations that are adopting the Microservice architecture and is working on his third startup Eventuate, an application platform for developing Transactional Microservices. |
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Live Q&A in the Networking & Discussion Session Room |
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Research from the Santa Fe institute on Complex Adaptive Systems over the last 20 years seems to point to a grand unified theory of organisational design. So have we cracked it? Do we now have the answer to the question: how do we create and scale high performing software and organisations?
architecture-and-design
high-performing-teams
complexity-science
team-topologies
About the speaker...James LewisJames is a Software Architect and Director at ThoughtWorks based in the UK. He’s proud to have been a part of Thoughtworks’ journey for over fifteen years and its ongoing mission of delivering technical excellence for its clients and in amplifying positive social change for an equitable future. As a member of the Thoughtworks Technical Advisory Board, the group that creates the Technology Radar, he contributes to industry adoption of open source and other tools, techniques, platforms, and languages. He is an internationally recognised expert on software architecture and design and on its intersection with organisational design and lean product development. As such he’s been a guest editor for IEEE Software, written articles, delivered training, and spoken at more conferences than he can remember. James defined the new Microservices architectural style back in 2014 along with Martin Fowler. Currently, the Microservices industry is worth in excess of $20 billion annually. James’ primary consulting focus these days is on helping organisations with technology strategy, distributed systems design and adoption of SOA. He freely admits that it’s only by standing on the shoulders of giants that he’s been able to make the contributions to the industry that he has. |
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Microservices can be a very effective approach to speeding up delivery of value to your organisation and to your customers. If you get them right.
architecture-and-design
microservices
About the speaker...Sarah WellsSarah is a technology leader, consultant and conference speaker with a focus on microservices, engineering enablement, observability and devops. She has over 20 years experience as a developer, principal engineer and tech director across product, platform, SRE and devops teams. She spent over a decade at the Financial Times, leading as it transformed into a true cloud native organisation, releasing code 250 times as often and embracing autonomous empowered teams. She is currently writing a book about Enabling Microservice Success for O’Reilly. Find Sarah on twitter: @sarahjwells |
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Dark Energy, Dark Matter and Microservice Architecture Collaboration Patterns
Featuring Chris Richardson
In this talk Chris Richardson discusses how to balance two opposing forces in microservices architecture: the repulsive forces that drive the decomposition of your application into services, and the attractive forces that resist decomposition and bind software elements together.
architecture-and-design patterns cqrs api-composition command-side-replica saga decomposition microservices -
Software Architecture, Team Topologies and Complexity Science
Featuring James Lewis
Research from the Santa Fe institute on Complex Adaptive Systems over the last 20 years seems to point to a grand unified theory of organisational design. So have we cracked it? Do we now have the answer to the question: how do we create and scale high performing software and organisations?
architecture-and-design high-performing-teams complexity-science team-topologies -
Enabling Microservice Success
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Microservices can be a very effective approach to speeding up delivery of value to your organisation and your customers. But only if you get them right. In this talk, Sarah Wells shares lessons from her 10 years experience of building and operating microservice architectures at the Financial...
architecture-and-design microservices
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