Abstract:

In summer 2014, the continuous delivery engineering team at Zalando--Europe’s leading online fashion platform for men, women and children--began brainstorming about a distributed approach to infrastructure. We started this conversation after learning from our customer feedback that a one-solution-fits-all CI approach no longer worked, given our team’s evolving objectives and business needs. Zalando’s continuous delivery team took responsibility for the CI infrastructure in place at the time: three central CI servers serving slightly different use cases. The team adapted this trio of servers into a continuous delivery landscape of multiple CI servers that can be configured to meet various teams’ specific needs.

In this talk, Zalando Continuous Delivery Lead Lothar Schulz will describe how his team successfully moved from a central, continuous integration infrastructure to a distributed infrastructure. Lothar will talk about how the team defined devops for this purpose. He will explain why a distributed approach makes sense for a company (15+ million active customers) and tech team (800+ members and growing) of Zalando’s size. Finally, he will share knowledge that you can use to transform your own user feedback into CI solutions that work.

Speaker: Lothar Schulz

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