From Monolith to Microservices at Zalando

<p>In this talk, Head of Engineering Rodrigue Schaefer will discuss some of the&nbsp;challenges of Zalando's transition from monolith to microservices and how the&nbsp;company&rsquo;s engineering team has tackled them through a combination of&nbsp;organizational decisions and development of new tools.</p> <p>He&rsquo;ll discuss Zalando&rsquo;s open-source PaaS framework STUPS (stups.io), which was&nbsp;built in-house to enable multiple teams to use the full power of AWS without&nbsp;scarifying vital aspects like security, traceability and architectural&nbsp;standards. Docker has played a key role in this architectural transformation&nbsp;and helps us to realize an easy and robust deployment process.</p> <p>Rodrigue will also discuss how Zalando engineers are taking a microservices&nbsp;approach to front-end as well as back-end, through a rebuild of the company&rsquo;s&nbsp;&ldquo;shop&rdquo;&mdash;the unit that includes our 15 country-specific, customer-facing websites.</p> <p>He&rsquo;ll describe how the team is using tools like Hystrix and various resilience&nbsp;libraries to manage its growing microservices ecosystem. Finally, he&rsquo;ll explain&nbsp;how microservices has enabled Zalando&rsquo;s tech team to achieve a culture of autonomy,&nbsp;mastery and purpose that encourages innovation and experimentation.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>