From Garage Project to the No. 1 Taxi App in Europe

Explore the journey of mytaxi from a small garage project to becoming Europe's leading e-hailing app in this 56-minute conference talk from Spring I/O 2018. Discover how the company scaled from 3 developers to over 100, supporting more than a million network requests per minute. Learn about the transition from monolithic architecture to microservices and the migration from on-premise to cloud solutions. Gain insights into efficiently scaling engineering teams, avoiding common pitfalls, and implementing effective tech stacks. Examine the company's approach to single-click deployments, log collection, system monitoring, and data storage. Understand how mytaxi manages different techniques, languages, and conventions across teams and offices. Delve into Spring anti-patterns and how to avoid them. See how mytaxi supports various platforms, including Android and iOS apps, smartwatch apps, Google Maps integrations, Siri integration, and an Alexa skill for voice-activated taxi ordering.

From garage project to the No. 1 Taxi App in Europe by Tim Büthe / Alejandro Peña @ Spring I/O 2018