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Sam Newman is an independent consultant specializing in helping people ship software fast. Sam has worked extensively with the cloud, continuous delivery and microservices and is especially preoccupied with understanding how to more easily deploy working software into production.

For the last few years, he’s been focused on microservice architectures. Sam worked with a variety of companies around the world, often with one foot in the developer world and another in the IT operations space. Previously, has spent over a decade at ThoughtWorks before leaving for a startup, and then eventually setting up his own company. Sam is a frequent speaker at conferences and author of best-selling books.

Topic focus: Microservices

Check out some of Sam’s past talks:

A few of Sam’s books:

Upcoming masterclasses featuring Sam Newman

Resilient Distributed Systems

Distributed systems exist in all shapes and sizes, and chances are you're either working on one now. But the fundamental nature of distributed systems means that we are exposed to all sorts of problems that can cause our systems to become slow, unresponsive, or even fail altogether.

In this one day class, you'll learn about the challenges of distributed systems, and what you can do to create software that is much more likely to work when users need it to.

Whether you're building a fine-grained microservice architecture, or a more monolithic distributed system, you'll learn concrete practices to help make your software more robust.

This is not a coding matserclass, but it is interactive. This is a class about concrete practice, but presented in a technology agnostic way.

What We Will Cover:

Each class is different, with the attendees shaping what content we will cover in each class, but expect to cover:

  • What is resiliency?
  • The Golden Rules of distributed systems
  • Timeout tuning
  • Retires & Idempotency
  • Load shedding & back pressure
  • Circuit breakers
  • Bulkheads
  • CAP Theory
Tuesday Sep 30 @ 09:00 | Copenhagen, Denmark

Reserve your spot now

Microservice Communication

Architecture is all about the boxes and arrows. Whilst the boxes themselves can be interesting, it’s the arrows between them that this class will focus on. How can microservices communicate with each other?

No two classes are the same, with the attendees driving the exact agenda, but expect to cover the nature of synchronous and asynchronous communication, request-response vs event-driven collaboration, and why friends don’t let friends use distributed transactions. Along the way we can talk about the merits of different types of message brokers, why Sam now thinks schemas are cool again, and how event sourcing can be incredibly confusing.

Please note, this is not a coding class, but it is highly interactive. There will be lots of discussion - computing is all about trade offs, and this is especially true in the space of microservice communication. There is no one perfect solution, but by the end of the class you’ll better understand what trade offs might be important to you.

Monday Sep 29 @ 09:00 | Copenhagen, Denmark

Reserve your spot now

Resilient Distributed Systems

Distributed systems exist in all shapes and sizes, and chances are you're either working on one now. But the fundamental nature of distributed systems means that we are exposed to all sorts of problems that can cause our systems to become slow, unresponsive, or even fail altogether.

In this one day class, you'll learn about the challenges of distributed systems, and what you can do to create software that is much more likely to work when users need it to.

Whether you're building a fine-grained microservice architecture, or a more monolithic distributed system, you'll learn concrete practices to help make your software more robust.

This is not a coding matserclass, but it is interactive. This is a class about concrete practice, but presented in a technology agnostic way.

What We Will Cover:

Each class is different, with the attendees shaping what content we will cover in each class, but expect to cover:

  • What is resiliency?
  • The Golden Rules of distributed systems
  • Timeout tuning
  • Retires & Idempotency
  • Load shedding & back pressure
  • Circuit breakers
  • Bulkheads
  • CAP Theory
Tuesday Sep 30 @ 09:00 | Copenhagen, Denmark

Reserve your spot now

Microservice Communication

Architecture is all about the boxes and arrows. Whilst the boxes themselves can be interesting, it’s the arrows between them that this class will focus on. How can microservices communicate with each other?

No two classes are the same, with the attendees driving the exact agenda, but expect to cover the nature of synchronous and asynchronous communication, request-response vs event-driven collaboration, and why friends don’t let friends use distributed transactions. Along the way we can talk about the merits of different types of message brokers, why Sam now thinks schemas are cool again, and how event sourcing can be incredibly confusing.

Please note, this is not a coding class, but it is highly interactive. There will be lots of discussion - computing is all about trade offs, and this is especially true in the space of microservice communication. There is no one perfect solution, but by the end of the class you’ll better understand what trade offs might be important to you.

Monday Sep 29 @ 09:00 | Copenhagen, Denmark

Reserve your spot now

Microservice Communication

Architecture is all about the boxes and arrows. Whilst the boxes themselves can be interesting, it’s the arrows between them that this class will focus on. How can microservices communicate with each other?

No two classes are the same, with the attendees driving the exact agenda, but expect to cover the nature of synchronous and asynchronous communication, request-response vs event-driven collaboration, and why friends don’t let friends use distributed transactions. Along the way we can talk about the merits of different types of message brokers, why Sam now thinks schemas are cool again, and how event sourcing can be incredibly confusing.

Please note, this is not a coding class, but it is highly interactive. There will be lots of discussion - computing is all about trade offs, and this is especially true in the space of microservice communication. There is no one perfect solution, but by the end of the class you’ll better understand what trade offs might be important to you.

Monday Sep 29 @ 08:30 | Copenhagen, Denmark

Reserve your spot now

Resilient Distributed Systems

Distributed systems exist in all shapes and sizes, and chances are you're either working on one now. But the fundamental nature of distributed systems means that we are exposed to all sorts of problems that can cause our systems to become slow, unresponsive, or even fail altogether.

In this one day class, you'll learn about the challenges of distributed systems, and what you can do to create software that is much more likely to work when users need it to.

Whether you're building a fine-grained microservice architecture, or a more monolithic distributed system, you'll learn concrete practices to help make your software more robust.

This is not a coding matserclass, but it is interactive. This is a class about concrete practice, but presented in a technology agnostic way.

What We Will Cover:

Each class is different, with the attendees shaping what content we will cover in each class, but expect to cover:

  • What is resiliency?
  • The Golden Rules of distributed systems
  • Timeout tuning
  • Retires & Idempotency
  • Load shedding & back pressure
  • Circuit breakers
  • Bulkheads
  • CAP Theory
Tuesday Sep 30 @ 08:30 | Copenhagen, Denmark

Reserve your spot now

Content featuring Sam Newman

54:36
Confusion in the Land of the Serverless
Confusion in the Land of the Serverless
GOTO Amsterdam 2018
50:57
Insecure Transit - Microservice
Insecure Transit - Microservice
GOTO Berlin 2018
49:58
Feature Branches And Toggles In A Post-GitHub World
Feature Branches And Toggles In A Post-GitHub World
GOTO Chicago 2017
46:34
Confusion In The Land Of The Serverless
Confusion In The Land Of The Serverless
GOTO Berlin 2017
When To Use Microservices (And When Not To!)
When To Use Microservices (And When Not To!)
GOTO Book Club
GOTO Book Club Highlights Part 1
GOTO Book Club Highlights Part 1
GOTO Book Club
33:57
Enabling Microservice Success
Enabling Microservice Success
GOTO Book Club
48:28
Why Your Private Cloud is Probably a Bad Idea
Why Your Private Cloud is Probably a Bad Idea
GOTO Copenhagen 2019
42:21
Q&A - Monolith to Microservices with Sam Newman and Sven Johann
Q&A - Monolith to Microservices with Sam Newman and Sven Johann
GOTO Oslo 2020
48:28
Why Your Private Cloud is Probably a Bad Idea [VIRTUAL]
Why Your Private Cloud is Probably a Bad Idea [VIRTUAL]
GOTO Oslo 2020
43:57
Monolith Decomposition Patterns
Monolith Decomposition Patterns
GOTO Berlin 2019
50:11
Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Servers!
Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Servers!
GOTOpia Europe 2020
46:30
You Keep Using That Word
You Keep Using That Word
GOTO Copenhagen 2023
38:06
You Keep Using That Word
You Keep Using That Word
GOTO Amsterdam 2024
42:25
Software Architecture for Tomorrow: Expert Talk
Software Architecture for Tomorrow: Expert Talk
GOTO Unscripted
It's A Trap!
It's A Trap!
Designing Microservices Masterclass Taster
Designing Microservices Masterclass Taster

Past masterclasses featuring Sam Newman

Microservice Communication | GOTO Amsterdam 2024

Resilient Distributed Systems | GOTO Amsterdam 2024

Microservice Integration: Events, Sagas and Schemas | GOTO Copenhagen 2023

Monolith to Microservices | GOTO Copenhagen 2023

Monolith to Microservices | GOTO Copenhagen 2020

Microservice Integration: Events, Sagas and Schemas | GOTO Copenhagen 2020

Microservice Integration: Events, Sagas and Schemas (Tuesday) | GOTO Berlin 2019

Monolith to Microservices (Monday) | GOTO Berlin 2019

Monolith to Microservices | GOTO Copenhagen 2019

Microservice Integration: Events, Sagas and Schemas | GOTO Copenhagen 2019

Designing Microservices (Tuesday) | GOTO Berlin 2017

Designing Microservices | GOTO Berlin 2017

Designing Microservices (Thursday 1-day workshop) | GOTO Chicago 2017

Designing Microservices (Wednesday 1-day workshop) | GOTO Chicago 2017

Designing Microservices (Monday) | GOTO Berlin 2018

Designing Microservices (Tuesday) | GOTO Berlin 2018

Designing Microservices | GOTO Amsterdam 2018

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