Centralising the right things

@tombooth Centralising the right things Tom Booth

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@tombooth tl;dr

@tombooth Build a central team to empower and support others

@tombooth Centralised Decentralised Re-centralised

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@tombooth We weren’t one business, we were compe>ng func>ons

@tombooth Protec>onism built through compe>>on

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@tombooth Every 3 weeks, …

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@tombooth Every 3 weeks, we had a wild ride of
forgoHen changes

@tombooth Opera>ons would get the blame for developer problems

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@tombooth Why did their change break my code?

@tombooth Centrally provided tools were very poor

@tombooth GeLng features to our users was slow When we
were centralised,

@tombooth Change was complex because of poor design When we
were centralised,

@tombooth Func>onal ownership caused serious fric>on When we were centralised,

@tombooth One team needs to own the whole service

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@tombooth You have to embrace change

@tombooth Deploying con>nuously is beHer for users

@tombooth A team should own its own architecture and infrastructure

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@tombooth Every team with their own direc>on, liHle shared

@tombooth Solving the same problems, in the same way with
diﬀerent implementa>ons

@tombooth Opera>ng at larger scale requires deeper knowledge

were centralised,

@tombooth Change is complex because of poor architecture When we
were centralised,

@tombooth The same problems were being solved repeatedly When we
were decentralised,

@tombooth No-one has the complete picture When we were decentralised,

@tombooth We weren’t focusing on our users as much as
we should When we were decentralised,

@tombooth Retain ownership in the service teams

@tombooth Iden>fy common paHerns in our infrastructure

@tombooth Support common paHerns with great tooling

@tombooth Always ask, how can we help each other?

@tombooth Give teams room to experiment, do what’s best for
them

@tombooth Outside impressions maHer

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@tombooth Help our owners, investors and auditors understand our services

@tombooth Work together not apart

@tombooth Work together on architecture

@tombooth Work together on issues

@tombooth Work together on bugs in produc>on at 3am

were centralised,

@tombooth Change is complex because of poor architecture When we
were centralised,

@tombooth The same problems were being solved repeatedly When we
were decentralised,

@tombooth No-one has the complete picture When we were decentralised,

@tombooth We weren’t focusing on our users as much as
we should When we were decentralised,

@tombooth Build a central team to empower and support others

Centralising the right things

Centralising the right things

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