James Lewis & Martin Fowler

James Lewis is a Principal Consultant at Thoughtworks and member of the Technology Advisory Board. James' interest in building applications out of small collaborating services stems from a background in integrating enterprise systems at scale. He's built a number of systems using microservices and has been an active participant in the growing community for a couple of years.

Martin Fowler is an author, speaker, and general loud-mouth on software development. He's long been puzzled by the problem of how componentize software systems, having heard more vague claims than he's happy with. He hopes that microservices will live up to the early promise its advocates have found.