How to Escape The Distributed Monolith Architecture and more...

This free meetup is hosted in Just Eat Head Office. Free pizza and drinks available!

Agenda:

1. Scaling processing in a messaging architecture
   Discussion about techniques for scaling processing using some of the available open source tools
   Speaker: Riccardo Di Nuzzo, Solution Architect at Event Store Ltd.
   Duration: 20 minutes

2. Migration to an Event driven architecture: a simple approach
   When you have to rebuild your monolithic system you are called to make some tough decisions. What architectural pattern would you choose? Why that and not a different one?
   This talk is about a simple approach you might take in order to minimise the changes, reduce the RPC calls and gain good results at the same time.
   Speaker: Mauro Franchi is a Senior Engineer at Just-Eat UK with more than 10 years as a dot net (and JS) Full stack developer (moved to mainly backend in the last couple of years)
   Duration: 30 minutes

3. How to Escape The Distributed Monolith Architecture
   Microservices were all the rage, so you broke up your monolith. The services talk to each other by gRPC, you use a service mesh to route and load balance, and provide reliability oriented computing, you are fully buzzword compliant. Yet something seems to be wrong.
   You can't easily release software from one team, without coordinating with teams creating other. Testing has to be end-to-end to flush out problems or risk your team creating breaking changes for another team. Your 'heavy-lifters', whether you call the principals or architects seem to spend all their time on Docker, K8s, Istio and a whole slew of infrastructure technologies. Your system won't run without them, and you feel locked in. What happened?
   In this talk we look at the emerging world of "smart proxies and dumb endpoints" and ask whatever happened to the vision of "smart endpoints and dumb pipes", and what you can do to change course and deliver on the original promises of microservices to allow your teams to release frequently and independently of each other. In particular, We'll look at event driven architectures as an alternative to RPC based integration."
   Speaker: Ian Cooper, Principal Engineer at Just-Eat UK.
   Duration: 45 minutes