Jimmy Bogard
Jimmy is Headspring’s Chief Architect, evaluating potential technologies and bringing the most cutting edge to the table. For over 13 years, Jimmy has delivered solutions ranging from products, enterprise e-commerce applications, modernization efforts, and Agile Transformation for Fortune 100 customers, leveraging his vast experience both consult and train clients.
As a renowned technologist and thought leader who understands technology’s power to transform organizations, Jimmy is in high demand at conferences across the world. He is a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) and an active member of the .NET community, serving as President of the Austin .NET User Group. He’s led multiple open source projects with millions of downloads, launched book clubs on technology topics, and even wrote the book on pragmatic MVC-based web development, ASP.NET MVC in Action. Jimmy has earned Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for ASP.NET every year since 2009.
Splitting the monolith
After years—even decades—on the existing legacy mainframe, we pitched a plan to migrate a company to a new, microservices-based architecture. Convincing management seemed easy, but now we have to deliver: Take the years-old legacy system and break it apart into smaller services and systems we can actually maintain.
