Ronald is CTO at FUGA, the industry-leading technology for international rights holders. He is end-responsible the FUGA platform that was launched in 2008 in conjunction with leading music partners as well as for managing the technical team. Ronald talks about intermittent failures, Netflix from 500 microservices and why you shouldn't consider microservices unless you have a system that is too complex to manage as a monolith. But at the same time don't start a monolith when your goal is a microservices architecture UXDX Community 2019 - Amsterdam 20th March 2019 Supported by Adyen Location The Garage, Amsterdam Video is available to watch on our YouTube channel; https://youtu.be/HOhU1Jr7uC8

1. You’re not Netflix
UXDX Amsterdam

2. Ronald van Rijn

3. About the title

4. Once upon a time…

5. Microservices Premium

6. Eventual consistency
Service A Service B
Process 1 Process 2
Write 2
Write 1 Read 1
Read 2
Due to partitioning process 2 might read any of the following:
only write 1, only write 2, both or neither

7. Intermittent failures
Service A Service B
Process 1 Process 2
Failed write
Write Read
Read
Due to the nature of network traffic any call can fail,
at any time and anywhere in the process

9. “Don’t even consider microservices unless you
have a system that is too complex to manage
as a monolith.”
— Martin Fowler, Thoughtworks

10. In defence of Monoliths

11. “Don’t start a monolith when your
goal is a microservices architecture.”
— Stefan Tilkov, innoQ

12. Architectures lie on a spectrum

13. Size of your engineering team

14. Stage of the product or concept

15. Domain knowledge of the team

16. Requirement to deliver part of
the system independently

17. In conclusion

18. Thank you!