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

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted. https://gotopia.tech Read the full transcription of this interview here 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 Bluesky Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Facebook CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.tech SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!