E19 Moving from the monolith to a microservices architecture with effx founder Joey Parsons

In this episode, Erasmus Elsner and Cameron Weibel are joined by Richard Mabey, founder of effx to talk about moving from the monolith to a microservices architecture.  

00:00​​ Intro 

03:05​​ From rockstar engineer to found 

06:02​​ Building early social network PicRave  

$07:30​​ Taking the plunge with wife 5 months pregnant 

09:00​​ Founder focus as a young father 

10:06​​ Transitioning from Airbnb to Kleiner Perkins 

12:03​​ Daily life as an entrepreneur in residence 

13:46​ Defining microservices 

14:53​​ Explaining microservices to a kid 

16:28​​ Microservices vs. structured programming 

19:55​​ Functionality of microservices 

22:20​​ User microservice example  

24:15​​ Starting out: monolith vs. microservices architecture 

25:42​​ Microservices teams: UI, middleware, DBA specialists  

28:38​​ Data layer of microservices 

30:56​​ Microservices vs. monolith debate 

34:36​​ Moving to a microservices architecture at Airbnb 

37:59​​ Managing microservices at Airbnb 

42:12​ effx and Kubernetes 

43:44​​ Go to market strategy at effx 

46:07​​ Raising the $3.9m Seed round