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Dave Farley speaks with Sam Newman about distributed systems and the future of software development.

In this episode of The Engineering Room, Dave Farley speaks with Sam Newman, renowned author of "Building Microservices" and "Monolith to Microservices," about distributed systems, architectural decisions, and the future of software development. ------------------------- Sam Newman on "X" (formerly "Twitter"): https://x.com/samnewman?lang=en 📖 "Building Microservices" 1st Ed., Sam Newman: https://samnewman.io/books/building_microservices/ 📖 "Building Microservices" 2nd Ed., Sam Newman: https://samnewman.io/books/building_microservices_2nd_edition/ Equal Experts is a product software development consultancy with a network of over 1,000 experienced technology consultants globally. They increase the pace of innovation by using modern software engineering practices that embrace Continuous Delivery, Security, and Operability from the outset ➡️ https://bit.ly/3ASy8n0 Only Patreon Supporters get to see the FULL VIDEO Episodes of The Engineering Room, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/c/continuousdelivery 📖 "The Software Developers’ Guidebook Amazon ➡️ https://amzn.to/4f9ozFK ebook version ➡️ https://leanpub.com/softwaredevelopersguidebook 📖 The original, award-winning…

People in this episode

Host: Dave Farley

Guest: Sam Newman

Topics covered

• distributed systems
• software development
• architectural decisions
• microservices
• continuous delivery

Keywords

• distributed systems
• software architecture
• microservices
• continuous delivery
• Sam Newman

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Equal Experts

Books & works: Building Microservices, Monolith to Microservices

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