Duration : 00:47:39
Randy Shoup, former VP of Engineering and Chief Architect at eBay, gave a talk on minimal viable architecture, highlighting that there is no one perfect architecture for all scales, phases of evolution and problem domains. Shoup discussed the different phases of companies and products, which all go through an S-curve, and how there are different architectures that are appropriate at different levels and scales of the company. He then provided examples of architecture evolutions at eBay and Amazon, highlighting the move from a monolithic structure to microservices. Shoup advised startups to not blindly replicate architectures of successful companies; instead, they should find solutions tailored to their own problems.