Workday - The impact of non-functional requirements on Workday’s architecture
James Paysley, Workday
11am 31st Mar 2023
Abstract
Founded in 2005, Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance, human resources and planning. In this presentation, we’ll look at how non-functional requirements have influenced the design of Workday’s architecture. We’ll also review how that architecture has changed since the initial design that hosted just a few customers, to the current architecture hosting thousands of customers, and 60 million workers.
Short Bio
Presented by James Pasley, (Fellow) Software Development Engineer. James studied Computer Science at Trinity College, graduating in 1991. After working in several Dublin based companies, he joined Workday in 2008. He is part of Workday’s architecture team, which provides guidance on changes to Workday’s architecture. His blog post, Exploring Workday’s Architecture, provides an overview of the Workday architecture.