abiodunjames

As you develop your technical skills, you get to a point where you develop incredible confidence about your ability to deliver irrespective of any technical challenge thrown at you.

But the moment you take a leap into a leadership role, moving beyond leading oneself to lead others, you start to realize that succeeding in this new venture takes more than being technically sound. Suddenly, there are non-technical skills that seem to matter.

Moving to a microservices architecture allowed us to scale and improve our velocity to release features to our users. However, we started getting to feel the burden of Metcalfe’s Law, with too many microservices directly talking to each other, which prompted us to start adding event-driven, fine-grained, and self-contained functions into the mix. In this post, we’ll share our journey into the serverless (FaaS) world using Kubernetes and Knative and the lessons we learned along the way.