The unprecedented growth of microservices changed the behavioural traits of an average developer. In this brief presentation, i'm going to touch up on various concepts of microservices which empowered an average developer to become and entrepreneur.

1. T R A N S F O R M I N G D E V E L O P E R
F R O M C O M M O D I T Y T O P R E M I U M
A TA L E O F M I C R O S E R V I C E S

2. H O W D E V E L O P E R I S C O M M O D I T I S E D

3. T E C H N O L O G Y H E T E R O G E N E I T Y

4. FA S T E R P R O T O T Y P I N G T O O L S

5. R A I S E O F T H I R D PA R T Y T O O L I N G
• AI As Service
• Tensor Flow, Wit.ai, SciKit-learn
• Bot As Service (Chatops)
• Facebook Messenger, Slack, Hipchat
• Voice Recognition As Service
• Amazon Echo, Google Home, IBM Watson
• Authentication/Authorisation as Service
• Auth0, firebase, OneLogin, OAuth providers

6. E A S E O F D E P L O Y M E N T

8. • Datawire
• Docker
• HashiCorp tools
• Joyent’s Autopilot
• ELK
• Terraform
• ECS
• Kubernetes
• CoreOS
• UniKernels
• Serverless
• Pipeline as code
• Lambda CD, Drone, GoCD,
Concourse
• Packer
R A I S E O F D E V O P S P L AT F O R M S &
D E P L O Y M E N T I N N O VAT I O N

9. R E S I L I E N C E & S C A L I N G

10. • AppDynamics
• NewRelic
• FireHol Netdata
• Grafana
• Datadog
• Monit
• ELK
• Zipkin
• Service & Server
monitoring
• Logs monitoring
• Correlation IDs
• Circuit Breakers
• Service & Server metrics
B E T T E R M O N I T O R I N G S Y S T E M S &
R A I S E O F B 2 B B U S I N E S S E S

11. I S O L AT E D & A U T O N O M O U S

12. – E R I C S R AY M O N D
“If you have four groups working on a compiler,
you'll get a 4-pass compiler”

13. • Full stack development
• Devops
• Building a product/service
from scratch
• Service Integration
• Release management
• Taking actions on the
service metrics
A S E L F O R G A N I S E D T E A M

14. B U I L D I N G
E N T R E P R E N E U R S
S TA R T U P W I T H I N A S TA R T U P

15. R A I S E O F A P R E M I U M
D E V E L O P E R

16. • N O B O D Y T O G I V E W O R K
• P R O G R A M M E R S TA K E
R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y O F S U C C E S S
O F T H E P R O J E C T
• C O M E O U T O F “ F E A R O F
FA I L U R E ”
• P R O G R A M M E R S TA L K T O
B U S I N E S S A N D M O D E L T H E I R
D O M A I N S A R O U N D T H E
B U S I N E S S
• F O L L O W S T H E R U L E S O F
A G I L E M A N I F E S T O & S O M E
T I M E S C O N S I D E R E D A S P O S T
A G I L E
A N A R C H Y

17. I T S T I M E T O B U I L D O N M Y
O W N

18. • Stripe Atlas
• Quora
• Fiverr
• Upwork
• FBA
• IOT Systems
• AWS, Heroku, GCP
• Facebook platform, Slack and ChatOps
• Trello
• Lets Encrypt, Gitlab, Zoho Email
• Freshchat, tawk.to
• Sparkpost, Mautic
• Hubspot, Freshsales
• Microsoft Bizspark
• AWS Activate
C O M P O U N D Y O U R S O F T WA R E Q U A L I T Y
B Y C O M B I N I N G Y O U R S A A S T O O L K I T

19. I N D I V I D U A L S W H O C R E AT E T H E B U S I N E S S
A R E R E WA R D E D M O R E H A N D S O M E LY

20. C O R P O R AT E L A D D E R
V S
E N T R E P R E N E U R S H I P

21. @ K I S H O R E Y E K K A N T I

22. R E F E R E N C E S
http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikekavis/2014/08/01/are-software-
engineers-a-commodity/#59c94688660a
http://a16z.com/2014/07/30/the-happy-demise-of-the-10x-engineer
https://henrikwarne.com/2015/04/16/lessons-learned-in-software-
development/
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2016/08/07/you-are-not-a-
commodity/