Building Modern Software at Scale: Architectural Principles • Randy Shoup & Charles Humble

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Randy Shoup - SVP Engineering at Thrive Market
Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant
RESOURCES
Randy
https://bsky.app/profile/randyshoup.bsky.social
https://medium.com/@randyshoup
https://x.com/randyshoup
https://github.com/randyshoup-thrive
https://www.linkedin.com/in/randyshoup

Charles
https://bsky.app/profile/charleshumble.bsky.social
https://linkedin.com/in/charleshumble
https://mastodon.social/@charleshumble
https://conissaunce.com

Links
https://se-radio.net/2008/09/episode-109-ebays-architecture-principles-with-randy-shoup

DESCRIPTION
Charles Humble sits down with veteran tech leader Randy Shoup, now SVP of Engineering at Thrive Market.
Randy discusses Thrive Market’s evolution from a 10-year-old monolith to a microservices architecture, emphasizing domain-driven design and agile scaling. Drawing on his experiences at eBay and other tech giants, he explains when to adopt microservices and the importance of continuous delivery and platform engineering for boosting productivity.
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Sam Newman • Monolith to Microservices
Sam Newman • Building Resilient Distributed Systems
Dave Farley & Jez Humble • Continuous Delivery
Forsgren, Humble & Kim • Accelerate
Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Nicole Forsgren, Patrick Debois & John Willis • The DevOps Handbook
Gregor Hohpe • Platform Strategy
Ford, Parsons, Kua & Sadalage • Building Evolutionary Architectures 2nd Edition
Simon Brown • Software Architecture for Developers Vol. 2
Michael Feathers • Working Effectively with Legacy Code
Michael Nygard • Release It! 2nd Edition

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Fejezetek

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Thrive Market & Randy's career journey (00:01:39)

3. Evolving architecture: From monolith to microservices (00:04:57)

4. Microservices: When (and why) to break apart your monolith (00:10:52)

5. The relationship between organizational scaling & microservices (00:14:55)

6. How eBay doubled engineering productivity (00:18:52)

7. Balancing platform engineering effort (00:28:00)

8. Building eBay today: Modern architecture & cloud tools (00:36:43)

9. Evolution of architectural principles over 20 years (00:43:18)

10. Outro (00:50:09)