From Monolith to Microservices
09:45 - 10:35
In this talk, Head of Engineering Rodrigue Schaefer will discuss some of the challenges of Zalando's transition from monolith to microservices and how the company’s engineering team has tackled them through a combination of organizational decisions and development of new tools. He’ll discuss Zalando’s open-source PaaS framework STUPS (stups.io), which was built in-house to enable multiple teams to use the full power of AWS without scarifying vital aspects like security, traceability and architectural standards. Docker has played a key role in this architectural transformation and helps us to realize an easy and robust deployment process.
Rodrigue will also discuss how Zalando engineers are taking a microservices approach to front-end as well as back-end, through a rebuild of the company’s “shop”—the unit that includes our 15 country-specific, customer-facing websites. He’ll describe how the team is using tools like Hystrix and various resilience libraries to manage its growing microservices ecosystem. Finally, he’ll explain how microservices has enabled Zalando’s tech team to achieve a culture of autonomy, mastery and purpose that encourages innovation and experimentation.
Rodrigue Schaefer
Rodrigue Schaefer joined Zalando in 2014 as Head of Engineering. In his time with the company he has helped to build the Brand Solutions department from scratch and was one of the architects of Radical Agility: the management strategy adopted by Zalando’s tech team in early 2015 to foster autonomy, mastery and purpose team-wide. Since April 2015 he has been responsible for guiding the transformation of Zalando’s customer-facing fashion store from a monolith into a microservices architecture. Enabling innovation through people and technologies is at the heart of his work.