A talk I did at the Emerce Eday2014, about how we are using microservices to build a new scalable platform for an online auction house.

1. simplifiying complexity
with microservices

2. Remmelt Pit
software engineer

4. conclusion

5. microservices
are awesome

6. continued
growth

8. since
1994

10. self organising teams

12. since
2003

13. 12,000
auctions

18. 4,000,000
listings

19. ~1M unique
visitors/month

20. & growing!

29. open
platform

31. downsides?

32. bleeding edge

33. different
thinking

34. why do we do it

35. exciting
& fun

36. great community

37. large players
(netflix, twitter, airbnb)

38. we believe in this
architecture

39. continued
growth

40. conclusion

41. microservices
are awesome

42. complexity

43. development
speed

44. open
platform

45. future proof