On lessons learned building software, SaaS and Teams
Will has worked in Software and Systems design for almost 20 years. Starting out in pipeline robotics and mining electronics he moved onto building enterprise software for defence before he built the first off shore engineering office for Orion Health in Canberra, Australia in 2010 and then again in Scottsdale, Arizona before joining Atlassian in 2015. Since then he has been leading the team building the Identity platform that powers their cloud products. It’s been a journey of lessons learned, late nights managing incidents and sweating the details on systems that deal with 10^10 requests a week at >99.999% uptime and 99th percentile latencies of sub 20ms.
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Change management in a DevOps world – Or – How to rodeo with one of the two horsemen of the apocalypse
Change is a major cause to incidents. How you approach change management is an important consideration and depends on your tech, your team and what you are optimising for. Will discusses how his teams have approached it.
The foundation of DevOps – If you want to be good at something… you’ve got to spend time on it
Will explores the best way to explain why you need to spend time on devops, and what your team should be spending that time on.
On Monoliths to Microservices and Technology choices
The move to microservices promises teams higher levels of autonomy than ever. Will explores where that helps, but also where leaders need to provide guidance on optimising for the team today, vs the team tomorrow.
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