Breaking up monoliths in your schedule, your team and in your software architectures to increase velocity and innovation. The video of my presentation of this talk at the Daho.am 2015 conference is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8OQ_u7El38&lt

1. Apportioning
Monoliths
Kevin Goldsmith

2. Let’s say I wanted to
build a large application

3. Some requirements
‣ Mustscaletomillionsofusers
‣ Supportmultipleplatforms
‣ Handlecomplexbusinessrules
‣ Competitiveinafastmovingmarket
‣ ReactQuickly
‣ Out-innovate

4. A product like this

6. A product like this
‣ 60MillionMonthlyActiveUsers
‣ 58Countries(sorry,notBelarusyet)
‣ >20,000songsaddedperday
‣ >1.5Bplaylists
‣ Incrediblycomplexbusinessrules
‣ Lotsofcompetition

7. A product like this
‣ 60MillionMonthlyActiveUsers
‣ 58Countries(sorry,notBelarusyet)
‣ >20,000songsaddedperday
‣ >1.5Bplaylists
‣ Incrediblycomplexbusinessrules
‣ Lotsofcompetition

8. Howdoyousupport
theserequirements
whilemovingfast
andinnovating?

9. Agile!

10. Product Release Calendar

11. Product Release Calendar
Spec

12. Product Release Calendar
Spec Code

13. Product Release Calendar
Spec Code Test

14. Product Release Calendar
Spec Code Test Release

15. Product Release Calendar
Spec Code Test Release

16. Product Release Calendar
Spec Code Test Release
ProductInnovation

17. Product Release Calendar
Spec Code Test Release
ProductInnovation

18. Product Release Calendar
Spec Code Test Release
ProductInnovation

19. Product Release Calendar
Spec Code Test Release
ProductInnovation

20. Product Release Calendar
Spec Code Test Release
ProductInnovation

21. Product Release Calendar
Spec Code Test Release
ProductInnovation

22. Product Release Calendar
Spec Code Test Release
ProductInnovation

23. “To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change
often”
Winston Churchill

24. I thought you
said you wanted
to build a large
application?

25. Scaling
Agile

26. Challenges

27. Challenges
Synchronization

28. Challenges
Synchronization
{
Scrum of scrums
PSI/Release planning
Cadence

29. Challenges
Synchronization
Alignment

30. Solution
Autonomous Teams

31. Autonomous
adjective
au·ton·o·mous - ȯ-ˈtä-nə-məs
(of a country or region) having the freedom to govern itself or control its own affairs.
"the federation included sixteen autonomous republics"
having the freedom to act independently.
"school governors are legally autonomous"
synonyms: self-governing, independent, sovereign, free, self-ruling, self-
determining, autarchic; self-sufficient
"an autonomous republic"

32. Autonomous
adjective
au·ton·o·mous - ȯ-ˈtä-nə-məs
(of a country or region) having the freedom to govern itself or control its own affairs.
"the federation included sixteen autonomous republics"
having the freedom to act independently.
"school governors are legally autonomous"
synonyms: self-governing, independent, sovereign, free, self-ruling, self-determining, autarchic;
self-sufficient
"an autonomous republic"

33. Challenges
Synchronization
Alignment

34. Server
Core Library
Platform Platform Platform Platform
Infrastructure

35. “Organizations which design systems ...
are constrained to produce designs
which are copies of the communication
structures of these organizations”
Melvin Conway

36. Server
Core Library
Platform Platform Platform Platform
Infrastructure

37. Server
Core Library
Platform Platform Platform Platform
Infrastructure
VP
client
director
client
manager
client
manager
client
manager
client
manager
server
director
core
manager
infra
director
server
manager
server
manager

38. Server
Core Library
Platform Platform Platform Platform
Infrastructure

39. Server
Core Library
Platform Platform Platform Platform
Infrastructure

40. Server
Core Library
Platform Platform Platform Platform
Infrastructure

41. Server
Core Library
Platform Platform Platform Platform
Infrastructure

42. Server
Core Library
Platform Platform Platform Platform
Infrastructure

43. Server
Core Library
Platform Platform Platform Platform
Infrastructure

44. Inverse Conway Maneuver
evolve your team and organizational
structure to promote your desired
architecture.

45. Server
Core Library
Platform Platform Platform Platform
Infrastructure

46. Server
Core Library
Platform Platform Platform Platform
Infrastructure

47. platforms
Server
Core Library
Platform Platform Platform Platform
Infrastructure

48. platforms
Server
Core Library
Platform Platform Platform Platform
Infrastructure
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam

49. platforms
Server
Core Library
Platform Platform Platform Platform
Infrastructure
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam

50. platforms
Server
Core Library
Platform Platform Platform Platform
Infrastructure
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam

51. platforms
Server
Core Library
Platform Platform Platform Platform
Infrastructure
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam

52. platforms
Server
Core Library
Platform Platform Platform Platform
Infrastructure
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam

53. Full-stack autonomous
teams

54. Full-stack autonomous
teams
increases the learning opportunities

55. Throughput over
velocity

56. Full-stack autonomous
teams
Works well for steady state of
development

57. Full-stack autonomous
teams
Need to shift for the step-change
innovation projects towards
synchronization (but not completely)

58. What this looks like at Spotify
‣ 70+teams
‣ 600+Developers
‣ 5Developmentoffices
‣1Product

59. Full-stack autonomous
teams
Requires you to structure your
application in loosely coupled parts

60. Loosely
Coupled
Architecture

61. Server

66. LoadBallancer

70. Microservices
‣ Easiertoscalebasedonreal-world
bottlenecks
‣ Easiertotest
‣ Easiertodeploy
‣ Versionindependently
‣ Lesssusceptibletolargefailures
‣ Hardertomonitor
‣ Needgooddocumentation

71. Client

75. Shared Frameworks

76. Shared Frameworks
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam

77. Shared Frameworks
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
App Release Team

78. Shared Frameworks
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
App Release Team
Common UI Components
UI Interface Guidelines
SharedTesting Frameworks

79. Shared Frameworks
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
App Release Team
IntegrationTesting
App Submittal
UI Consistency Validation

80. Shared Frameworks
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
FeatureTeam
App Release Team
Shared DevelopmentTree
Best Practice Sharing

81. Questions
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