Metrics Driven Architecture

Explore a 46-minute conference talk from Devoxx that delves into metrics-driven architecture. Learn how to quantify success, describe technical debt with meaningful numbers, and move beyond the era of carefree artists and ivory towers in software development. Discover practical approaches to evaluate and improve architecture, including fast builds, quick pipelines, wake-up time, testability, and developer experience. Gain insights into microservices, automating migrations, and the differences between metrics and KPIs. Understand how to implement metrics for monitoring and alerting, and explore the technology stack needed for a metrics-driven approach. Walk away with valuable takeaways to apply metrics-driven principles to your own architectural decisions and project management.

Introduction
About me
About Destler
The biggest issue with architecture
Matrix in architecture
Tom Gill
Most important attributes
The horse
Fast build
Fast pipelines
Wake up time
Testability
Developer Experience
Microservices
Automating migrations
Metrics vs KPIs
Metrics in practice
Stop guessing
Metrics for monitoring
Metrics for alerting
Technology stack
Takeaways