Building a Platform for Thousands of Bots in the Cloud

Explore the journey of building an Internal Developer Platform on AWS at Ocado Technology in this 15-minute conference talk from PlatformCon 2023. Discover key components of a successful platform, vital metrics for platform engineers, and how managed cloud services can be leveraged for heavy lifting. Learn about the evolution of DevOps culture and the shift towards platform engineering to enhance developer autonomy and scalability. Gain insights into treating platforms as products, applying software development methods, measuring productivity, and implementing security baselines. Understand how Ocado Technology's platform has enabled the management of thousands of bots worldwide, allowing developers to focus on innovation and customer value. Delve into real-world examples of using ECS to increase productivity, simplify deployments, and maintain security and compliance needs. Uncover the impact of abstracting deployment complexity, containerization, and compute infrastructure from developers, and how to measure its effectiveness.