Sam is a technologist focusing in the areas of cloud, microservices, and continuous delivery - three topics which seem to overlap frequently. Providing consulting, training and advisory services to startups and large multi-national enterprises alike, he has over 20 years in IT as a developer, sys admin and architect. Sam is also author of the best selling Building Microservices and Monolith To Microservices, both from O’Reilly, and is an experienced conference speaker.