This episode is a panel discussion from the microservices track QCon Plus, held in May 2021. Track host Nicki Watt asks "What have we learned over the last decade of microservices." The panelists included Chris Richardson, James Lewis, and Katie Gamanji. The discussion started with looking at how the meaning of "microservices architecture" has evolved over the past ten years. There were some great insights about how successfully developing, deploying, and maintaining software depends as much or more on cultural and environmental factors, than simply adopting microservices and all the tools and technology that now exist.

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What Have We Learned Over the Last Decade of Microservices?

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Alex Qin following on from her QCon London talk “Shaving My Head Made Me A Better Programmer”.

Why listen to this podcast:

- Casual discrimination and unconscious bias is rife in society, and very prevalent in tech
 - The need to have many more people in the field who don’t fit the preconceived mould of a programmer
 - The complexity of the overall system means we need to tackle discrimination at many levels in many different aspects
 - One person can make a difference
 - Call things out when you see things that are wrong – speak up, show up and shield those who can’t shield themselves

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Alex Qin on Leveraging Technology to Create Positive Social Change

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jez Humble about his Agile 2017 Keynote talk in which he refuted many of the common excuses why “continuous delivery won’t work here”.  He also gave a scathing response to the “Manifestbro” controversy which recently unfolded at Google.

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Key takeaways about DevOps:

 - There are many reasons cited for not adopting DevOps – the real reasons are cultural and architectural issues
 - It takes commitment and effort at every level to rearchitect not just the products but the organisation to support the new ways of working
 - Even if you are not deploying every day, the practices of DevOps deliver huge dividends around reducing development costs, improving quality and maintainability and driving shorter lead
 - It’s not about repeating what someone else has done, it’s the ability to make mistakes and learn from them which makes teams and organisations successful

Key takeaways on the gender diversity challenge:

 - In 2017 we should have come beyond the need to address these issues but the state of the industry means we must
 - There is extensive research that shows the differences are tiny between the genders, and this cannot explain the vast disparity in representation in the industry by women and people of colour
 - The harm done by perpetuating the myths around gender differences
 - We all have a duty to create an inclusive environment
 - Examine your organisation’s systems, policies and practices for the visible elements of discrimination and fix them – check salaries and career advancement by role and if there is a gender or race difference in the rates of pay or advancement then fix them
 - Introducing Inclusive Collaboration and calling for participation and having the conversations about the many aspects of diversity in the workplace today

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Jez Humble on Making Continuous Delivery Work and Responding to Discrimination in Tech

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Jez Humble on Making Continuous Delivery Work and Responding to Discrimination in Tech

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