Session + Live Q&A
Managing Tech Debt in a Microservice Architecture
Every software company has to deal with tech debt, which slows down development. Ironically, it's usually difficult to get the support of the product managers who have a long list of high-profile features with tight deadlines to invest in paying down tech debt. What’s more, the problems of tech debt compound faster for companies that adopt a microservices architecture.
In this presentation, I describe how Optum Digital (formerly Rally Health) engineering devised a method for reliably and predictably paying down tech debt for hundreds of Microservices. You will learn how to form relevant communities and identify the high-risk areas of tech debt. I describe how to compile the collective decisions of the communities into an actionable roadmap and present that roadmap to product managers in a non-confrontative yet effective manner. You will learn how to measure progress in paying down tech debt.
Speaker
Glenn Engstrand
Software Architect @rally_health
Glenn Engstrand is a software architect in the part of Optum Digital that was Rally Health. Glenn's focus is working with engineers in order to deliver scalable, server side, 12 factor compliant application architectures. Glenn was a breakout speaker at Adobe's internal Advertising Cloud...
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Date
Tuesday Nov 2 / 02:10PM EDT (40 minutes)
Track
Microservice Patterns and Antipatterns: Lessons From the Trenches
Topics
Technical DebtMicroservicesArchitectureDistributed SystemsCloud NativeAdd to Calendar
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