Two years ago we started refactoring a monolithic shop into an e-commerce microservice platform. By now we’ve grown to 150 developers. In this talk we want to share our journey and the lessons we’ve learned the hard way.
After agreeing on a few terms about microservices we want to provide some answers to problems we ran into:

- What kind of organizational structure do you need to reflect the vertical boundaries in software while growing fast?
- How do you define bounded contexts with many teams and features? Are there ways to guide your teams and enable autonomy on all levels in your organization?
- Can you enable your teams to develop and deploy independently all the way to production?
- How does asynchronous communication with Apache Kafka change the way you think about your entities?
- How can multiple microservices contribute to the same pages? (And why you might have to implement this twice...)

As you see we will share our interpretation of a micro service architecture where developers stay in the driver’s seat and have a fair degree of independence and participation.