Sarah is a technology leader, consultant and conference speaker with a focus on engineering effectiveness, microservices, incident management, platform engineering, optimising for flow and technical strategy. She has over 20 years’ experience as a developer, principal engineer and tech director across product, platform, SRE and DevOps teams.
She spent over a decade working at the Financial Times, as it transformed from 12 releases a year to more than 20,000, embracing autonomous empowered teams and adopting microservices, DevOps, containers and platform engineering.
She is the author of the O’Reilly book Enabling Microservice Success: Managing Technical, Organizational and Cultural Challenges.
When you hear “governance,” you might think of red tape, bureaucracy, or someone telling you what you can’t do. But real governance is about alignment and reducing technical risk. And that matters more than ever.In most cases, engineers aren’t deliberately making risky decisions—they just don’t have clear expectations. That’s where good governance comes in. It ensures everyone understands what “go...