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Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

On Microservices - Johannes Thönes and James Lewis (Recorded for SE Radio)

Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

Thoughtworks

Technology, Careers, Business

4.558 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2014

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Johannes Thönes talks to James Lewis, principal consultant at ThoughtWorks, about microservices. They discuss microservices’ recent popularity, architectural styles, deployment, size, technical decisions, and consumer-driven contracts. They also compare microservices to service-oriented architecture and wrap up the episode by talking about key figures in the microservice community and standing on the shoulders of giants. Recording venue: ThoughtWorks North Europe Away Day, Sherwood Forest, Newark, Nottinghamshire, UK This track also appeared on se-radio.net.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Software Engineering Radio, the podcast for professional developers on the web at s e-dash radio.

0:22.6

SEDY-Radiot net. Snet. SEDEO brings you relevant and detailed discussions of software engineering topics at least

0:26.6

once a month.

0:28.0

SEDEO radio is brought to you by I-TRAPELE Software magazine online at computer.org slash software.

0:34.7

Welcome to another show of Essie Radio.

0:39.0

It's Johannes Talkies in this time, and I'm sitting here with James Lewis,

0:43.0

and I'm starting by reading his biography.

0:46.8

James Lewis is a principal consultant at Thoughtworks and calls him to help a coding architect.

0:52.7

He is part of the technical advisory board, which meets

0:55.8

quarterly to produce the ThoughtWorks Technology Radio. James' interest is building application

1:01.9

out of small collaborating services, terms from a background in integrating enterprise systems

1:07.9

at scale. James studied astrophysics in the 90s but got sick of

1:12.4

programming in Fortran. Fifteen years of DBA, software engineering, design and architecture later,

1:18.7

he believes that writing the software is the easy part of the problem. Most of the time, it's about

1:24.3

getting people's thinking right. So welcome James on the show.

1:29.0

Thank you very much. So is there anything you would like to add to your biography?

1:34.0

I don't think so. I think that pretty much covered it. Yeah, I've been at Thoughtwick's about eight

1:38.6

and a half years now. So I've seen a lot of, I think, changes in the software industry in that

1:42.8

time. Obviously, everything's moving very, very fast.

1:45.4

So I guess what we're going to talk about today is one of those latest changes.

1:51.6

Yeah.

1:52.0

So let's just dive into the topic.

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