"This talk is about how breaking up those monoliths in your schedule, your organization and your architectures can help you increase your team's innovation throughput and making you more competitive in today's fast moving markets."

"Databases are global, shared, mutable state. That’s the way it has been since the 1960s, and no amount of NoSQL has changed that. However, most self-respecting developers have got rid of mutable global variables in their code long ago. So why do we tolerate databases as they are?"