Cockcroft: Microservices require shifting enterprises from project-based to product-based teams
Adrian Cockcroft · a16z Podcast | All About Microservices · Jan 2, 2019 · at 6:05
Former Netflix cloud architect Adrian Cockcroft discusses the organizational shifts traditional enterprises face when migrating to a microservices architecture on the a16z Podcast.
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“What you see with traditional enterprise siloed organizations is they're actually having to do a reorgan set up teams that own, that are responsible for services, and that's, it's somewhat unnatural for the way they're currently set up, but I'm seeing an increasing number of people go through that transition, and sometimes you can see it as a replacing project-based work with product-based work.”
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