Building a Strategic Platform: Lessons from Comparethemarket's Journey - Platform Engineering

Learn from Comparethemarket's journey in building a strategic platform solution, transitioning from a 5-year self-managed Kubernetes environment. Explore how they tackled legacy design challenges, introduced new capabilities, and executed a smooth migration strategy. Gain insights on initiating large-scale projects like platform development, identifying crucial considerations, and simplifying the migration process for seamless project transitions. Delve into topics such as obtaining proper buy-in, prioritization, delivery strategies, migration planning, treating platforms as products, and platform evolution. Discover the keys to building a successful platform, scalability considerations, benefits for internal customers, and self-service provisioning options. Examine the decision-making process behind platform technology choices, data persistence strategies, and future challenges in this comprehensive 44-minute talk from Platform Engineering.

Intro
About Comparethemarket
Our first production platform
History
What happened
Start from scratch
Get the right buyin
Prioritize
Delivering
Migration
Plan and Path
Platform as Product
Platform Evolution
Will I build a successful platform
Summary
Thank you
Questions
Why didnt you go for Managed Kubernetes
Was it scalable
Benefits to internal customers
What is the platform
Choosing a platform tech
Scaling options
Selfservice provisioning
Clusters
Data Persistence
Next challenge