SOA is an approach to application design that allows us to build robust, scalable software. This is not about scary enterprise systems, this is about building applications with interoperable, lean services that can provide incredible flexibility and freedom. You will learn the pros (and cons) of this approach, and how you can apply it to your own projects. Using common idioms like REST, HTTP and message queues, complex applications can appear simple again. Simplicity leads to better design, increased agility and developer happiness.

Over the past few years we (the IT Development team) have been on a journey of development and increasing 'agile' maturity. In the beginning it was not an obvious direction and did not have anything as fancy as strategic thinking. Now as our maturity increases the challenges we face are quite different than they were in the beginning and moving beyond our sphere of influence. The presentation will describe the journey so far our changing perspectives and some of our experiences and challenges along the way.