Paving the Road to Effective Software Development • Sarah Wells • YOW! 2023
This presentation was recorded at YOW! Perth 2023. #GOTOcon #YOW
Sarah Wells - Independent Consultant & Author
RESOURCES
ABSTRACT
One thing we’ve learned over the last few years is that autonomous cross-functional teams - ones that don’t have to stop and wait for someone outside the team to do something - can deliver business value faster.
However, it isn’t possible to have every skill on every team, and we do want all those autonomous teams to build in important things like security, observability and cost efficiency.
Many of these things we care about are best owned by a separate team, distinguishing the platform from the products built on it.
This isn’t a return to dev vs ops: the platform team builds and runs the platform, the dev teams build and run the services, and the interactions between them need to be as low friction as you can make them, while maintaining a level of security, quality and cost control that your company would expect.
That platform team should see themselves as enablers, providing tooling and services for common capabilities like DNS, content delivery, cloud provisioning, observability, etc.; managing relationships with vendors; and providing insights and oversight to product development teams.
For this to work though, there cannot be either a free for all where teams pick whatever tech they want - and there can’t be a mandated single way to do things. The answer is the paved road, and Sarah will talk about what this means for the organisation and the teams, with examples from her time leading this engineering enablement group at the Financial Times. [...]
TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
01:52 Loosely coupled architectures
02:19 Empowered teams
02:46 Autonomy
05:16 Paving the road
06:01 Our path to the paved road
06:27 Mandatory platform
09:13 Financial Times platform
13:25 Minimal platform
16:15 Guardrails
23:23 Paved road
29:56 Principles for building paved roads
30:16 Build what people need
32:55 Reduce the risk of adopting it
33:59 Don’t make people wait
37:30 Make things easy to use
38:51 Allow people to extend & adapt
40:03 Help people do the right thing
44:23 Going off road
47:24 The benefits of the paved road
47:41 log4shell
49:46 Wrapping up
51:07 Principles for building the paved road
51:49 Outro
Read the full abstract here:
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Sarah Wells • Enabling Microservice Success •
Forsgren, Humble & Kim • Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps •
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies •
Daniel H. Pink • Drive •
Christian Clausen • Five Lines of Code •
Andy Oram & Greg Wilson • Beautiful Code •
Christian Mayer • The Art of Clean Code •
Uncle Bob • Clean Code •
Tom DeMarco & Tim Lister • Peopleware •
David Farley • Modern Software Engineering •
#Teams #DevOps #CrossFunctionalTeams #Autonomy #Accelerate #PlatformEngineering #DNS #Observability #log4shell #SarahWells
Looking for a unique learning experience?
Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at
Sign up for updates and specials at
SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily.
1 view
0
0
2 months ago 00:02:34 1
Paving the Way to TRUMPSARA
2 months ago 00:11:01 1
I Built a $5000 Powerhouse: It’s Insane! | Core Ultra 9 285K + 4090 | ROG Hyperion PC Build
2 months ago 00:05:02 1
Cradle Of Filth - Nymphetamine Fix [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
2 months ago 01:00:16 1
СТРОИТЕЛЬНЫЕ ТЕХНОЛОГИИ НОВОГО УРОВНЯ
2 months ago 00:04:00 1
SABATON - The Last Stand (Official Lyric Video)
2 months ago 00:03:56 1
SABATON - The Last Stand (Official Music Video)
2 months ago 00:04:38 1
Butcher Babies - Mr. Slowdeath
2 months ago 00:03:01 1
Administrator Bill Nelson announces the end of Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
2 months ago 00:04:03 1
Sabaton - The Last Stand (Music Video)
2 months ago 10:10:10 1
T H A L A S S A \\ Hauntingly Beautiful Fantasy Music for Gaming | Relaxing | Studying | Sleeping
2 months ago 00:14:32 1
Israel Military Confirms it Has Launched Missile Strikes on Iran in Retaliation | Zaki Abbas
2 months ago 00:34:30 1
Dragon Age: Inquisition – Game of the Year Edition Gameplay (PC UHD) [4K60FPS]
2 months ago 00:03:47 1
Сплин - Маяк (Вместо письма)
2 months ago 00:18:30 1
Exploring Abandoned Highway 99 North of Los Angeles - The Ridge Route Alternate
2 months ago 00:04:06 1
FIRST LOOK | Gabriela Fundora Has Paved The Way To Become Boxing’s Youngest Undisputed Champion!
2 months ago 00:46:03 1
SWITZERLAND - LIFE IN THE ISOLATED SWISS VILLAGES - ISOLATED PEOPLE IN THE SWISS MOUNTAINS