Sarah Wells
Sarah 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
Talks I've Given
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Enabling Microservice Success
Featuring Sarah Wells
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...
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Mature microservices and how to operate them
Featuring Sarah Wells
At the Financial Times, we built our first microservices in 2013. We like a microservices-based approach, because by breaking up the system into lots of independently deployable services - making releases small, quick and reversible - we can deliver more value, more quickly, to our customers and...
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Mature microservices and how to operate them
Featuring Sarah Wells
At the Financial Times, we built our first microservices in 2013. We like a microservices-based approach, because by breaking up the system into lots of independently deployable services - making releases small, quick and reversible - we can deliver more value, more quickly, to our customers and...
architecture-&-design -
Mature microservices and how to operate them
Featuring Sarah Wells
At the Financial Times, we built our first microservices in 2013. We like a microservices-based approach, because by breaking up the system into lots of independently deployable services - making releases small, quick and reversible - we can deliver more value, more quickly, to our customers and...
architecture-&-design -
Keynote: Operating Microservices: Everything Is at Scale
Featuring Sarah Wells
If you only have to do things a few times, you can do them manually. With microservices, you need to automate pretty much everything. Doing it manually just takes too long.
And it’s not just provisioning and deployment pipelines. How do you keep service run books up to date for 100+ services?...
kubernetes architecture microservices mucon -
Switching Horses Midstream: The Challenges of Migrating 150+ Microservices to Kubernetes
Featuring Sarah Wells
The FT’s content platform team put our first containers live in mid-2015 and migrated the rest of our services over by April 2016. At that point, we weren't using Kubernetes - and much of what we were using, we built ourselves.
cloud devops microservices docker software-development software-architecture cloud-native -
Nudge theory: Influencing empowered teams to do the things that matter to you with Sarah Wells
Featuring Sarah Wells
Successful DevOps means empowering teams – “you build it, you run it” is a fine principle, but it means you need to let your teams make their own choices. But you still have things you want all teams to do, and you need to balance the benefits of the right technologies against the costs of...
architecture