Shaun Anderson

@swiftbird68

Shaun is Application Transformation Practice Lead at Pivotal. He is the inventor of top down DDD techniques including the Boris Exercise. He spends most of his time slaying, starving and strangling monoliths and defining pragmatic solutions to complicated problems. He has a wealth of experience designing and building mission critical applications with technologies running the gamut from Akka to Zuul. Shaun has recently presented at Spring One and Cloud Foundry Summit.

Talk Session

The Swift Method: Event Storming, Boris the Spider and other techniques to modernize mission critical enterprise systems.

Are fire-breathing monoliths lurking throughout your Enterprise? Many of these ancient behemoths can be millions of lines long and can wreak havoc when trying to evolve and transform your business. Unfortunately, your business depends on services they provide, so they can’t just be eliminated without a battle plan. In this session, we will discuss how to carve up your legacy dragons using the DDD heavy Swift Method which includes Event Storming, The Boris Exercise and SnapE. This method has been used to realize the Art of the Possible in several > $1B companies over the past two years.