London Microservices Meetup - Q2 2025

~~~ Agenda ~~~~
18:00 Venue opens
Drinks, pizza, and networking.
18:45 First speaker
19:15 Second Speaker
Q&A

Drinks and further networking at The Angel

~~~Speakers~~~

1st Speaker

David Denton - Founder at Clockwork and Co-creator of http4K

Functional Intelligence: Agents, MCP And The End Of The Web (?)

This talk touches on a future where autonomous systems, powered by standardised protocols, transform how we interact with digital services and fundamentally reshape the human web experience. Instead of humans adapting to clunky UIs and processes, intelligent agents handle these tasks by directly communicating with each other.

2nd Speaker

Ian Cooper - Senior Principal Engineer - Just Eat

Microservices: Where Did It All Go Wrong?

This talk looks at the key misunderstandings around microservices: the problems that microservices were intended to solve; "what does micro mean?"; how to achieve independent deployability; how to avoid anti-patterns like a distributed monolith. It will also explain the problems that a monolith can't solve that cause us to choose microservices.