Randy Shoup
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where they keep going back
- Craft Conference5 editions2019–2025
- Build Stuff4 editions2019–2022
- GOTO Chicago3 editions2014–2020
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- Yvette Pasqua2×
- Eva Andreassononce
- Kevlin Henneyonce
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- Camille Fournier19 talks
- Sander Hoogendoorn35 talks
- James Lewis43 talks
- Dave Farley31 talks
- Daniel Terhorst-North42 talks
- Kent Beck14 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| We doubled engineering productivity at eBay, but couldn't change culture | LDX3 London 2026 | 2026-06-02 |
Claimed outcome: doubled engineering productivity across roughly 3,000 product engineers, backed by DORA metrics showing 10x deployment frequency and 5x faster… | ||
| Platform Engineering: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of eBay | Craft Conference 2025 | 2025-05-29 |
eBay executes a platform program that doubles engineering productivity by removing bottlenecks: automated pipelines for ~98–99% of apps, reintroduced feature… | ||
| Large-Scale Architecture: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Simplicity | Craft Conference 2024 | 2024-05-30 |
Argues that scaling comes from simplifying components, interactions and change processes, not added complexity: examples include a 3.4M‑line eBay monolith… | ||
| Minimum Viable Architecture | YOW! Melbourne 2022 | 2022-12-08 |
Describes a concrete roadmap: start with rapid experiments (an Excel prototype or fake Google ads), use a single-app monolith for early teams, add logging… | ||
| Large-Scale Architecture: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Simplicity | YOW! Melbourne 2022 | 2022-12-08 |
Argues that simplifying architecture—modular services, event-sourced immutable logs, async pipelines and materialized views—drives scale and reliability with… | ||
| Improving Software Flow | YOW! Melbourne 2022 | 2022-12-08 |
Applies the Five Ideals (locality and simplicity; focus, flow, joy; improvement of daily work; psychological safety; customer focus) to concrete engineering… | ||
| Improving Ebay's Development Velocity | DevTernity 2022 | 2022-12-08 |
eBay runs a focused “velocity” program that moves teams from medium to high performance by shipping smaller changes faster and automating delivery. Results: 5x… | ||
| Doubling Engineering Productivity at eBay Through DevOps | YOW! Melbourne 2022 | 2022-12-08 |
Claims that doubled engineering productivity for initial pilot teams (holding team size constant) and scales from ~10% to 50% of development work. Uses a… | ||
| Agility and Architecture Together – Enabling a Fast Flow of Change | Build Stuff 2022 | 2022-11-09 |
Argues that agility and architecture are mutually reinforcing and gives concrete outcomes: Amazon and eBay evolve from monoliths to services, Microsoft A/B… | ||
| Minimal Viable Architecture | Agile meets Architecture Berlin 2022 | 2022-09-06 |
Argues that architecture must match a product phase: idea → starting → scaling → optimizing, so teams begin with a simple modular monolith on cloud PaaS, use… | ||
| Agility and Architecture Together – Enabling a Fast Flow of Change | Agile meets Architecture Berlin 2022 | 2022-09-06 |
Argues that combining agile practices with a decoupled, modular architecture produces a measurable fast flow of change: stream‑aligned teams owning service… | ||
| Improving eBay's Development Velocity | Craft Conference 2022 | 2022-06-02 |
eBay runs a cross-organizational Velocity initiative that pilots platform tools and team embedding to cut delivery bottlenecks: a dashboard tracking the Four… | ||
| It's a Long Way to the Top If You Wanna CTO | Craft Conference 2022 | 2022-06-02 |
Career advice that centers on concrete trade-offs: choose between IC and management using Nick Caldwell’s Voigt Comp idea, stay technical via code reviews and… | ||
| It's A Long Way To The Top If You Wanna CTO | Build Stuff 2021 | 2021-11-17 |
Practical roadmap about career tradeoffs: move between individual contributor and management is OK, stay technical via code reviews and industry engagement… | ||
| Improving Software Flow | Craft Conference 2021 | 2021-06-02 |
Five Ideals from The Unicorn Project map to concrete practices: organize small autonomous teams so 80% of project work stays inside team boundaries, enforce… | ||
| Improving Software Flow | Build Stuff 2020 | 2020-11-11 |
Argues that following the Unicorn Project’s Five Ideals produces measurable gains: use Locality and Simplicity so 80% of team work stays inside team boundary… | ||
| Moving Fast at Scale | GOTO Chicago 2020 | 2020-04-27 |
Draws lessons from Google eBay Stitch Fix and WeWork experience and cites Google’s Project Aristotle finding that psychological safety is the top predictor of… | ||
| Moving Fast at Scale | Build Stuff 2019 | 2019-11-13 |
Research-backed approach: form small cross-functional teams aligned to clear business problems, use A/B tests and machine-learned ranking to iterate, and apply… | ||
| "Moving Fast at Scale" | Build Stuff Spain 2019 | 2019-05-23 |
Research-backed claim: elite teams deploy 46× more often, have 2,500× faster commit-to-deploy and 2,600× faster recovery, and still cut change failures… | ||
| Scaling yout Architecture with Services and Events | GeeCON 2019 | 2019-05-15 |
History shows monoliths morph to microservices after scale pain points such as feature velocity and database limits like the 3.4 million lines eBay monolith or… | ||
| Moving Fast at Scale | Craft Conference 2019 | 2019-05-07 |
High-performing organizations combine small cross-functional teams aligned to business domains, clear autonomy and accountability, and disciplined problem… | ||
| Randy Shoup: Breaking Codes, Building Jets, and Designing Teams | Craft Conference 2019 | 2019-05-07 |
Bletchley Park breaks Enigma and the Lorenz cipher, builds the electromechanical Bombe and Colossus 1943 (a secret electronic stored‑program computer)… | ||
| Learning from Learnings: Anatomy of Three Incidents | SREcon19 Americas | 2019-03-25 |
An App Engine 8-hour global outage in October 2012 triggers a timeboxed, whiteboard-driven program: teams bucket eight-to-ten themes, spend one week scoping… | ||
| Attitude Determines Altitude: Engineering Yourself & Your Teams | GOTO Chicago 2018 | 2018-04-24 |
Argues that attitude outweighs raw aptitude and gives concrete levers: cultivate a growth mindset, build psychological safety, and boost practical confidence… | ||
| Moving Fast At Scale | DevOpsDays NYC 2018 | 2018-01-18 |
Argues that engineering organization design drives architecture and speed, using two-pizza teams and small autonomous product teams that own code, ops, and… | ||
| Scaling Personalization: DevOps at Stitch Fix | DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco 2017 | 2017-11-13 |
Stitch Fix runs personalized recommendations by scoring every client × inventory pair daily with machine learning, combines those scores with 3500 stylists for… | ||
| Pragmatic Microservices | GOTO Stockholm 2016 | 2016-05-09 |
Large systems tend to evolve into microservices, not start there: eBay moves from a single DLL of 3.4 million lines to a polyglot service landscape over years… | ||
| Ten (Hard-Won) Lessons of the DevOps Transition | DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015 | 2015-11-03 |
Ten concrete lessons on reorganizing teams for end-to-end ownership, replacing gatekeeper approvals with embedded tools, and treating internal platforms like… | ||
| What I Learned About Going Fast at eBay & Google | GOTO Copenhagen 2014 | 2014-09-25 |
Compares engineering practices at eBay and Google and gives concrete takeaways: App Engine runs ~3 million applications including ~15,000 internal apps; a… | ||
| Charting a Course Through Enterprise Architecture | GOTO Copenhagen 2014 | 2014-09-25 |
Panel argues Enterprise architecture moves from diagrams to experiments: companies build an Enterprise Data Hub (one unified store, often Hadoop) to give… | ||
| What I Learned About Going Fast at Ebay & Google | GOTO Chicago 2014 | 2014-05-20 |
eBay real-time search, Google App Engine (hosting 3 million App Engine apps including Snapchat), and Kixeye games form the evidence for what actually speeds… | ||
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