“Don’t Forget Conway’s Law” – Sarah Novotny Keynote
Speed of development and speed of repair isn’t only about problem solving and code. Monolithic codebases have fuzzy boundaries of ownership, massive teams with distributed accountabilities and intertwined dependencies. As you consider a microservices architecture don’t forget the cultural changes that need to be made. Nimble teams with autonomy, accountability and stellar communications are the key to agility.
About Sarah Novotny (NGINX): Sarah Novotny is a technical evangelist and community manager for NGINX. Novotny has run large scale technology infrastructures as a Systems Engineer and a Database administrator for Amazon.com and the ill fated Ads.com. In 2001, she founded Blue Gecko, a remote database administration company with two peers from Amazon. Blue Gecko, was sold to DatAvail in 2012. She’s also curated teams and been a leader in customer communities focused on high availability web application and platform delivery for Meteor Entertainment and Chef.
Novotny regularly talks about technology infrastructure and geek lifestyle. She is additionally a program chair for O’Reilly Media’s OSCON. Her technology writing and adventures as well as her more esoteric musings are found at sarahnovotny.com.
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