Tesco has very diverse requirements for it's applications. From heavily loaded web applications for the online shopping, handheld devices in supply chain processes, to edge computing on the tills. As diverse the environment is as diverse the cost optimization solutions will be.
In this talk we will take you onto a journey through the Tesco estate and look at the various cost saving initiatives that make a big impact when you run things on Tesco scale. How would you monitor and log 1.6M micro services in an efficient and cost effective way? How would you combine the strength of public and private clouds in a hybrid setup? What would you do with managed services? Every decision needs to be a conscious one, because the financial impact can be big. We will present here what our decisions were
Maze is an Electrical Engineer by education with 25+ years of experience in building software. He strongly believes in the concept of journeyman years (and they never end). This helped him to think outside the box and to draw parallels to seemingly unrelated domains. He embraces legacy systems and tries to give them (wherever reasonably possible) a new life....