A Pragmatic Guide for Migrating to Microservices presented by Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist, and Zhamak Dehghani, Principal Consultant, ThoughtWorks. XConf Careers About Zhamak Dehghani, Principal Consultant, ThoughtWorks: Zhamak Dehghani works with ThoughtWorks as a principal consultant, with a focus on distributed systems architecture and digital platform strategy at Enterprise. She is a member of the ThoughtWorks Technology Advisory Board and contributes to the creation of the ThoughtWorks Technology Radar. Zhamak has worked as a software engineer and architect for 20 years in the areas of distributed computing communications, as well as embedded device technologies and she has contributed to multiple patents on embedded mobile sensing devices. About Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist, ThoughtWorks: Martin is an author, speaker, consultant and self-described general loud-mouth on software development. He concentrates on designing enterprise software – looking at what makes a good design and what practices are needed to come up with good design. Fowler has been a pioneer of various topics around object-oriented technology and agile methods, and written several books including “Refactoring”, “UML Distilled”, “Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture”, and “NoSQL Distilled”. For the last decade, he’s worked at ThoughtWorks, what he considers a “really rather good” system delivery and consulting firm, and writes at .