Video and slides synchronized, mp3 and slide download available at URL http://bit.ly/1KMAMvG. Philip Willis believes that thinking about independent services and single responsibility applications rather than microservices can help to clarify the architectural trade-offs between the complexities of growing one application and those of communicating between many. Filmed at qconlondon.com. Phil Wills is senior software architect for The Guardian. He doesn't believe it's possible to do this well without regularly writing production code. Phil has helped build and scale theguardian.com, the tools used to produce it and Ophan, the analytics tool used to ensure our journalism reaches the widest possible audience.

1. Microservices
BIG(conceptually)
are too
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4. Why Microservices?
What do I mean by Independent Products and
Single Responsibility Applications?
What do they look like in practise?

11. “to safeguard the journalistic freedom
and liberal values of the Guardian”

15. X

17. Why?

18. Independent teams

21. Limit scope of failures

24. AllAll

25. Cleaner software
death

28. Independent Products

29. Single Responsibility
Applications

30. Workflow
Content API
Website
Ophan
Asset ManagementComposer
Mobile Apps API
iOS Android

34. Router
SportArticleDiscussion
3rd PartyContent APIDiscussion API

36. Tracker
SNS/SQS
Loader
Elasticsearch
Dashboard
Poller
FacebookTwitter Logger

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