Extreme DevOps Automation

Title: Extreme DevOps Automation

Speaker: Sérgio Amorim

Summary: Revolut has implemented extreme DevOps automation to handle the challenges of operating within a large-scale microservices architecture. This approach allows a 15-person DevOps team to support 1300 engineers and manage 6500 deployments. This efficiency is critical to ensuring teams focus on innovation rather than the complexities of infrastructure and tool configuration.

Key Points:

• Revolut's rapid growth leverages a vast microservices architecture, making automation essential to managing the complexity of thousands of engineers and product teams.
• The DevOps platform team at Revolut employs strategies to support a massive number of deployments, enhancing efficiency and focus on product innovation.
• A system called Tower acts as a developer portal, helping engineers handle deployments efficiently through well-defined patterns and automation.
• The focus is on automation, reducing manual configuration needs and enabling self-service for engineering teams.

Challenges and Solutions:

• Managing a large-scale system involves challenges like the need for a consistent tooling experience and efficient resource management.
• Automation allows for the rapid deployment and configuration of necessary resources, minimizing dependencies on manual operations.
• Efforts towards creating a zero-configuration setup to further ease the engineering workflow were emphasized.

Conclusion: By focusing on automation and standardization, Revolut effectively allows its development teams to concentrate on innovation, maintaining the company's competitive edge in the fintech industry.

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Revolut's rapid growth relies on a powerful microservices architecture, but this presents a significant scaling challenge. Thousands of engineers and hundreds of product teams, configuring the underlying tooling and infrastructure for each service – from git workspaces and CI/CD pipelines to Kubernetes deployments and monitoring dashboards – can be a huge waste. How does Revolut ensure that teams are focus on innovation? This talk dives into how Revolut tackles this challenge head-on. We'll explore the extreme automation strategies employed by a lean, 15-person DevOps platform team to support 1300 engineers and manage a staggering 6500 deployments, enabling Revolut to deliver a truly "Wow" experience and keeping Revolut at the forefront of fintech innovation.