London Microservices Meetup - Q1 2025

~~~ Agenda ~~~~

18:00 Venue opens

Drinks, pizza, and networking.

18:45 First speaker
19:15 Second Speaker

Q&A and networking until close at 20:30

~~~Speakers~~~

Stephen Havenhand - Engineering Manager at AnyVan

Talking at Cross Purposes - Building microservices with Data Scientists

At AnyVan, Stephen leads a team of engineers integrating data science algorithms into product microservices. In this talk, he’ll share his experiences of building two different kinds of systems working directly alongside a data science team and some of the challenges thrown up by merging the worlds of software engineering and data science.

Stuart Caborn Principal Engineer at Loveholidays

Beyond the REST API: The Hidden Evolution of Service Boundaries

How do you know when a service needs to evolve? While we often focus on REST APIs and runtime behavior, the true scope of a service could extend beyond these interfaces. Through the journey of a critical booking service at loveholidays, we'll explore how 12 years of rapid organisational growth created unexpected challenges in both our runtime and data architectures. We'll share practical insights about recognising when your service boundaries no longer serve your teams, how 'hidden' APIs like data dependencies can impact your ability to evolve, and how we approached restructuring for future scalability while keeping our systems running smoothly.