Efficiency and Platform Engineering - Transforming Microservices Architecture

Explore a transformative journey of converting a complex microservices architecture into a scalable platform managing over 26,000 microservices and supporting more than 12,000 developers in a highly productive environment. Delve into key insights, challenges faced, implemented solutions, and adopted best practices. Learn about the motivation behind building the FURY platform, its benefits, lessons learned, trade-offs, and mistakes. Gain a general overview of Fury before diving deep into topics such as developer experience optimization, NoOps culture creation, out-of-the-box management for code repositories, robust CI/CD pipelines, metric providers for complete observability, and cost management. Discover how Fury creates opportunities by suggesting or applying updates for critical vulnerabilities and cost optimization. Understand the Service abstraction layer and learn how to act quickly in solving issues like availability zone outages, the log4j vulnerability, and promptly responding to government regulations. This 15-minute conference talk, presented by Juliano Marcos Martins, Sr. Tech Manager at Mercado Libre, offers valuable insights into efficiency and platform engineering at PlatformCon 2023.