In this episode, Erasmus Elsner and Cameron Weibel are joined by Joey Parsons, founder of effx to talk about moving from the monolith to a microservices architecture.

00:00

Intro

03:05

From rockstar engineer to found

06:02

Building early social network PicRave

$07:30

Taking the plunge with wife 5 months pregnant

09:00

Founder focus as a young father

10:06

Transitioning from Airbnb to Kleiner Perkins

12:03

Daily life as an entrepreneur in residence

13:46

Defining microservices

14:53

Explaining microservices to a kid

16:28

Microservices vs. structured programming

19:55

Functionality of microservices

22:20

User microservice example

24:15

Starting out: monolith vs. microservices architecture

25:42

Microservices teams: UI, middleware, DBA specialists

28:38

Data layer of microservices

30:56

Microservices vs. monolith debate

34:36

Moving to a microservices architecture at Airbnb

37:59

Managing microservices at Airbnb

42:12

effx and Kubernetes

43:44

Go to market strategy at effx

46:07

Raising the $3.9m Seed round