What Has 4 Years of AWS Microservices Taught Me?

Explore the lessons learned from a 4-year journey of transforming a 20-year-old monolith into a highly distributed system using AWS Microservices. Gain insights from the experiences of 50+ developers across 8 teams as they navigated this complex transition. Discover candid reflections on technology failures, software delivery mistakes, and "cargo cult" practices, as well as creative and innovative solutions that emerged along the way. Learn valuable takeaways from this honest and ego-free retrospective, applicable to your own microservices projects and distributed system architectures.