The document outlines a presentation on driving technological changes within software development, particularly in the context of South Korean development practices. It emphasizes the challenges and resistance to change, while advocating for the adoption of new technologies and methodologies, such as Scrum and microservices architecture, to improve productivity and engagement among developers. The content also details the phases of implementing these changes, showcasing a transition from legacy systems to more modern solutions with positive feedback from the team involved.

1. How do we drive tech changes?
Jaewoo Ahn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lancersahn)
Platform Architecture Team
SK Planet

2. Disclaimers for Non-Koreans 
• This slide is translated version. Originally it was written in Korean.
(http://www.slideshare.net/saltynut/how-do-we-drive-tech-changes )
• Development environments and cultures in Korea might be quite different
from yours. In Korea,
– Almost projects(I bet over 80%) still use Java as backend and most popular combination is Java
1.6/Tomcat 6/Spring 3.x/MyBatis/SVN. It’s hard to find(I bet under 20%) somewhere use Java
1.7+, Spring 4.x, Any ORM(JPA, Hibernate, …), and other languages.
– There are many projects developed by SI companies (outsourcing), not their own developers.
– Scrum/Agile is generally NOT welcomed, due to Korean culture. People is familiar to just
follow directions from their boss and (almost) nobody want to pay more money on their
request changes.
– Well, feel comfortable? Then you might enjoy this. 
– p.s. Somebody can blame me these are not TRUE. Believe or not, it’s up to you.
• I’m not English-native person, and therefore you can find many poor writings
even I did my best. You are welcome to suggest/correct it.
• Got it? Keep go ahead!

3. Changes?
‘People hate change…
and that’s because people hate change…
I want to be sure that you get my point.
People really hate change.
They really, really do.’
- Tom DeMarco/Timothy Lister, Peopleware
- (Orginally) Steve McMenamin, The Atlantic
Systems Guild, 1996

4. Nothing different on Software
• Should we use it? I’m tired to learn new one.
• Why can’t we do it with current technologies?
• Did it proved? Is anybody use it in our
company?
• If we got some troubles, will you be liable for
that?

5. Belling the cat
And it should be considered that nothing is more
difficult to handle, more doubtful of success, nor
more dangerous to manage, than to put oneself at
the head of introducing new orders. For the
introducer has all those who benefit from the old
orders as enemies, and he has lukewarm defenders
in all those who might benefit from the new orders.
- Niccolo Machiavelli, Il Principe, 1513

6. Still we need changes
• New technology draws “fun”.
• Technical changes might change your
viewpoint and scopes what you can.
• Old developers become outdated with old-
fashioned technologies, but young developers
excited with new technologies.
• You can easily find early-adopters in OSS
communities trying to prove it instead of you.
(forget your company & country, be global!)

7. Agony when you develop new one
• Just use same/safe technology/methodology
before
• Try for new/challenging ones
• Which one is more “funny” for you project
members?
• Yes, I know some people doesn’t have any
time to consider “fun”. Sorry. 

8. So our team decided
• We think ‘change’ cause more ‘fun’, so we are
going to change something.
• If we say it seems to be ‘correct’/‘good’ way
‘in principle’/’ideally’, just do it.

9. Phase 1
Firstly, let’s create
a ‘New’ Service
with ‘New’ technologies
using ‘New’ methodologies

10. Phase 1
Firstly, let’s create
a ‘New’ Service
with ‘New’ technologies
using ‘New’ methodologies
Don’t need to consider existing/legacy ones
free to use any ones what devs want
Make people working better

11. Backend
FrontendWeb Application
Web Application
Phase 1 : Architecture
Presentation
Controller
Business
Data Access
Database
Existing systems’ Architecture
Frontend
Backend
Database
UI
REST API Service
New system’s Architecture

12. Phase 1 : Architecture
• Explicitly divide frontend and backend,
enabling separated development and
deployment
• REST API should be used between Frontend
and Backend, and should be stateless
architecture.

13. Phase 1 : Frontend
Web Application
Presentation
Controller
Business
Data Access
JSP
Sitemesh
JQuery
Existing systems’ Frontend
Frontend
HTML
CSS
Angular.js
Bootstrap
Less
Grunt
Bower
Karma
New system’s Frontend

14. Phase 1 : Frontend
Web Application
Presentation
Controller
Business
Data Access
JSP
Sitemesh
JQuery
Existing systems’ Frontend
Frontend
HTML
CSS
Angular.js
Bootstrap
Less
Grunt
Bower
Karma
New system’s Frontend
Frontend
MVC Framework
Frontend
Task Runner
(Build, Test, Run)
Frontend
Package Manager
Frontend
Test Runner
CSS
Framework
CSS
Helper

15. Phase 1 : Backend
Java 1.6
Tomcat 6
Spring 3.x + XML Conf.
Spring MVC
MyBatis
Maven
Existing systems’ Backend
a.k.a. De Facto Standard(?)
Java set in Korea
New system’s Backend
Java 1.7
Tomcat 7
Spring 4.x + Java Conf.
Spring MVC
Spring Data JPA +
Hibernate
Maven

16. Phase 1 : Backend
• Goodbye MyBatis & Hello ORM
– Model-Driven Design
– DDL is auto-generated (not for Production)
– Stop wasting time to draw ERD
– MySQL is for running, H2 is for Unit Test
• ORM performance concerns?
– If we need, use Second-Level Cache
– If not enough, use Native Query
– If not enough, tune DB

17. Phase 1 : Methodology/Process
• Project Charter
– Overview, Scope, Milestones
– Communication Points(Wiki, JIRA, Agile Board, Git)
– Principles, FAQ
• Begin to use Scrum
– Empowered with JIRA Agile
– Sprint Planning/Execution/Review
• Git
– At the beginning, we didn’t force any branch policy
– Let people feel friendly with Git

18. Phase 1 : Methodology/Process
• Project Principles
– During a sprint period, all members should concentrate on sprint backlog.
– All sprint backlog should be done during a sprint, and demonstrated + ready to deploy.
– Dog-fooding
– Please suggests voluntarily something needed, something missed, problems, and better
ideas. Help each others even it’s not assigned to you.
– Don’t hide your development process and results. Be open-minded for other’s comment.
– Be proud of yourself – we are creating best practice on our team and company.

19. Backend DeveloperFrontend Developer
Phase 1 – Methodology/Process
Analyze User Story
Design Contract/APIs
Implement Frontend Implement Backend
Mock/Unit Test Unit Test
Consume Actual APIs Load Test
User Story is done

20. Phase 1 Results
• Released beta version of “New” Service
successfully
• Learned and proved “New” technologies
• Adopted new methodology/process
• Positive Feedbacks from stakeholders
• Most of all, project members feel
‘fulfilling’ and ‘fun’

21. All right, go for next!

22. Phase 2
Let’s refactor & build
‘Existing’ services + @
with ‘Newer’ technologies
using ‘Newer’ methodologies
by ‘More’ People.

23. Phase 2
Let’s refactor & build
‘Existing’ services + @
with ‘Newer’ technologies
using ‘Newer’ methodologies
by ‘More’ People.
How do we migrate & transit?
There’s a lot of new things!
Experiments for better
improvements
What about more than 2 pizzas team?

24. Phase 2 : Architecture
• As Is : Monolithic Architecture
Web Application for “User”
Web Application for “Admin”
API Service for “App”
“Central” Database
A.UI A.Biz
B.UI B.Biz
A.UI A.Biz
C.UI C.Biz
D.UI D.Biz
D.Biz
A.Biz
A B
C D

25. Phase 2 : Architecture
• To Be : Micro-Service Architecture(MSA)
A
UI
A
Service
B
UI
B
Service
C
UI
C
Service
D
UI
D
Service
A
DB
B
DB
C
DB
D
DB
Content
Router
API
Gateway
Content
Router
Service
Registry
Event
Broker
Config
Service
Deploy
Service
User Endpoint
Admin Endpoint

26. Phase 2 : Architecture
• Why we choose MSA
– Divide not only Frontend and Backend but also feature boundaries
– Force to maintain contract based on API
– Easy to build/deploy, Easy to scale, Isolate fail-effects
– Micro-Service is easier to understand and develop
– We can apply polyglot programming and multi-framework on each
Micro-services

27. Phase 2 : Architecture
• Why we choose MSA
– Divide not only Frontend and Backend but also feature boundaries
Synchronize with company’s engineer career paths (Frontend/Backend)
– Force to maintain contract based on API
Nothing can be done without APIs
– Easy to build/deploy, Easy to scale, Isolate fail-effects
Yes, it’s isolated by each Micro-Services
– Micro-Service is easier to understand and develop
Reduced code size make it easier to understand by anyone
– We can apply polyglot programming and multi-framework on each
Micro-services
Experiment them as you want(If fails, do it another way)
Maybe it makes easy to hire your developers 

28. Phase 2 : Architecture
• Of course, there are many drawbacks
– How do we fine-grain into Micro-Services?
– How do we manage contract (API)?
– A feature could be done by only one developers, but now
we need to co-work with Frontend developer and other
micro-service developers
– How do we manage session states?
– How do we handle dependencies and transaction among
services?
– Code efforts might be duplicated
– Headaches for deploy/operations

29. Phase 2 : Architecture
• Of course, there are many drawbacks
– How do we fine-grain into Micro-Services?
– How do we manage contract (API)?
– A feature could be done by only one developers, but now
we need to co-work with Frontend developer and other
micro-service developers
– How do we manage session states?
– How do we handle dependencies and transaction among
services?
– Code efforts might be duplicated
– Headaches for deploy/operations
How do we solve these?

30. Phase 2 : Architecture
• Of course, there are many drawbacks
– How do we fine-grain into Micro-Services?
– How do we manage contract (API)?
– A feature could be done by only one developers, but now
we need to co-work with Frontend developer and other
micro-service developers
– How do we manage session states?
– How do we handle dependencies and transaction among
services?
– Code efforts might be duplicated
– Headaches for deploy/operations
How do we solve these?
Ready for pay?
Sorry, I’ll discuss at next time
(In fact, we’re still doing)
and you can google for answers 

31. Phase 2 : Architecture
• Of course, there are many drawbacks
– How do we fine-grain into Micro-Services?
– How do we manage contract (API)?
– A feature could be done by only one developers, but now
we need to co-work with Frontend developer and other
micro-service developers
– How do we manage session states?
– How do we handle dependencies and transaction among
services?
– Code efforts might be duplicated
– Headaches for deploy/operations ?
Most of all,
We enjoy our efforts to overcome these drawbacks,
and we believe that is worth to pay for MSA’s benefit.
Remind:
If we say it seems to be ‘correct’/‘good’ way ‘in
principle’/’ideally’, just do it.

32. Phase 2 : Frontend
A
UI
B
UI
C
UI
D
UI
Content
Router
Content
Router
사용자용 Endpoint
관리자용 Endpoint
Single Origin/Endpoint
for Browsers
Basis for enabling UI
Versioning and A/B
Testing
Log/Analytics Develop independently,
paired with Micro-
Service Backend
In production service,
it’s composited into
main pages with other
UI
E2E(End-to-End) Test
Using Selenium for E2E
test on user’s viewpoint

33. Phase 2 : Backend
Java 1.7
Tomcat 7
Spring 4.x + Java Conf.
Java 1.8
Embedded Tomcat
Spring Boot
Node.js
Express
MySQL
Redis
Others…
Groovy
Go
ASP.NET 5
Vert.x
Others…
Polyglot,
Multi-
Framework
Next
Candidates
Polyglot,
NoSql
Another
NoSql
or Cloud
PlanetSpace
Our
File Storage
Cloud

34. Phase 2 : Methodology/Process
• Enhance Scrum
– Apply estimation for planning
– Manage Release note with JIRA Versions
– Synchronize with JIRA Issue Status
Open -> Progress -> Resolve(Code Commit/Link) -> Close(master
merge & deployed)
• Git Branch Policy
– Master Branch : deploy for Production/Stage
– Dev Branch : shared one for sprint development
– Feature Branch : Created by JIRA Issue Id
– Code Reviews and Test when merge Feature to Dev, and Dev to
Master

35. Phase 2 : Methodology/Process
• Pair Programming
– Pair by Frontend, Backend, Test
• 2 Scrums
– To maintain 2-pizzas
• Rules & Conventions
– Make implicit knowledge among team members into explicit
documentation
– Shared among Scrums
• Code Workshop during Sprint Review
– Share each other’s know-how

36. Phase 2 is still progressing
We cannot make it
We’re sure we can do it,
since we enjoy the changes

37. Let’s change.
End of Slides