DL Insights - 16 - Daniel Eichten, Senior Director Platform Engineering at Adidas

ABOUT THIS EPISODE In this episode, you will learn: - How Adidas
e-commerce revenue went up from 40 Million to 4 billion Euro.
[00:02:07] - How platform engineering made the old platform five
times more scalable and how to reduce P1s to zero with little
changes. - How they started replacing the old system with new apps
which can withstand one million sales in 48 hours. [00:07:31] - How
they went full-in on Kubernetes first at one market,
re-architecting the solution, improve caching and rolling it out to
more and more markets. [00:23:24] - How to decide whether you build
the solution on your own or outsource it. [00:30:30] - How to
handle security in a changing development environment. [00:45:00] -
How a cultural shift was started in the whole company. [00:54:00] -
About future trends for platform engineering at Adidas. [00:59:00]
ABOUT THE PODCAST Digitale Leute Insights is the podcast for
passionate product people. We interview product developers from
around the world and take a closer look at their tools and tactics.
ABOUT THE HOST OLIVER THYLMANN Oliver is a serial entrepreneur
based in Cologne, Germany. He is the co-founder of Giant Swarm, a
30-person SaaS company providing managed microservice
infrastructure to big enterprises. ARTIKEL
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