Scale can be one of the primary drivers in migrating from a traditional monolith to a distributed, service-oriented architecture, like microservices. Scaling the capacity to process high volumes of requests or data or scaling value delivery by breaking down a large application into smaller pieces that allow more people to work on it simultaneously can be achieved by adopting a distributed approach. A distributed approach’s capacity to eliminate bottlenecks and single points of failure can also unlock performance and reliability.

Like most things in this world, there’s no such thing as a free lunch, and the benefits of a distributed approach come at a cost. These include the increased overhead of building, deploying, and maintaining many smaller services, the communication overhead between the services and the teams that own them, and the increased surface area that many services present from a security and compliance perspective.

This panel brings together Headforwards’ own engineering experts with seasoned engineering and product leaders from other organisations to discuss their experiences navigating the development sprawl and the almost inevitable complexity of distributed architectures.

Join us for this 1-hour live session from 4pm on Thursday, 21st March, 2024.