Backend Meetup: Advanced Microservices

Microservices are a popular and well-known architectural choice. Over time, best practices regarding implementing and maintaining this architectural style have evolved. In this meetup, we’ll look at the learnings of companies regarding the successful implementation and operation of microservices.

It will be an online only event streamed on our Pipedrive Talks YouTube channel. The recording will be available there as well. The link to the live stream will be provided before the event.

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🔈 Speaker 1: Nikolay Barbariyskiy, Architect at Applifting 🔈

Two Generals' Problem

"Let me tell you a story, to chill the bones", about two generals leading two armies who are preparing to attack a castle. For an attack to be successful, both armies need to attack at the same time. The armies are separated by the defenders of the castle, so any message sent, from one general to the other, can be potentially captured. Curious how our two generals have agreed on the time of attack? Or actually what the heck it has to do with Microservices? Well then just substitute generals with microservices, the castle defenders with the network, and join this awesome Pipedrive meetup :).

🔈 Speaker 2: Vahid Negahdari, Platform Engineering Manager at Pipedrive 🔈

It's not you – It's Microservices!

Microservices architecture addresses some of the most pressing challenges in software development, but they can make everything else harder. How do we claim effective and functional ownership? We need to think beyond simple interdependent services and consider the human factor. Linear thinking becomes inefficient very quickly when faced with a complex system like microservices architecture.
We've already established several best practices and are adding a new approach to them: Managing microservices by consolidating information about each microservice and exploiting it.
That way, we lower the cognitive load on our engineers by streamlining many day-to-day engineering activities as well as optimizing bigger decision processes in engineering.

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Agenda:

18:00 – Talk 1: Nikolay Barbariyskiy
18:30 – Talk 2: Vahid Negahdari

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We want to behave responsibly and not contribute negatively to the worsening covid situation and thus we decided to make this an online-only event. 😢 We are really sad about it as we love inviting you to our office, but we believe this is the right choice.

The link to the live stream will be provided before the event.