Scott Shaw
Head of TechnologyThoughtWorks
As the Head of Technology for ThoughtWorks in Australia, Scott divides his time between professional services leadership and consulting. As a consultant, he helps enterprise customers shape their technology to align with 21st century practices like cloud, continuous delivery, microservices and lean governance. As a lifelong programmer and technology professional, Scott has designed and worked on distributed systems of every imaginable size and shape. When he’s not in meetings, Scott enjoys writing Clojure code.
Talks I've Given
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Sensible Multicloud - An Enterprise Perspective
Featuring Scott Shaw
We've reached a turning point in public cloud adoption where established businesses, even in highly regulated industries, are going cloud-first and making plans to eliminate their fixed, on-premise hosting environments entirely. But this wholehearted embrace of cloud hosting also brings risk....
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Multi-cloud, A Large Enterprise Perspective
Featuring Scott Shaw
We've reached a turning point in public cloud adoption where established businesses, even in highly regulated industries, are going cloud-first and making plans to eliminate their fixed, on-premise hosting environments entirely. But this wholehearted embrace of cloud hosting also brings risk....
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Managing your Platform as a Product
Featuring Scott Shaw
Most of the large, traditional, businesses we encounter today feel like their market share is under threat from smaller, more nimble, purely digital competitors. These digital companies are able to continuously experiment and roll out new products and services at an accelerating pace. Even though...
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Confessions of an Enterprise Architect
Featuring Scott Shaw
Having worked in and around the software development business for many years, gaining a certain amount of grey hair and experience along the way, I’m often asked to help out teams struggling under the sometimes onerous and dogmatic restrictions of corporate IT. Years of these engagements...
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Avoiding Speedbumps on the Road to Microservices
Featuring Scott Shaw
Microservices seem to have taken the tech world by storm in recent months. The promise of flexible architectures that evolve and adapt to changing business models is irresistibly attractive. But in the rush to implement these systems, we’ve seen technologists leave some of the stickiest...
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Avoiding Speedbumps on the Road to Microservices
Featuring Scott Shaw
Microservices seem to have taken the tech world by storm in recent months. The promise of flexible architectures that evolve and adapt to changing business models is irresistibly attractive. But in the rush to implement these systems, we’ve seen technologists leave some of the stickiest...
architecture-&-design -
Avoiding Speedbumps on the Road to Microservices
Featuring Scott Shaw
Microservices seem to have taken the tech world by storm in recent months. The promise of flexible architectures that evolve and adapt to changing business models is irresistibly attractive. But in the rush to implement these systems, we’ve seen technologists leave some of the stickiest...
architecture-&-design