Performing Infrastructure Migrations at Scale

Explore strategies for performing large-scale infrastructure migrations in this insightful conference talk by Melanie Cebula from Airbnb. Discover how to justify and resource infrastructure migrations, manage the migration lifecycle, and tackle technical challenges such as prototyping, identifying blockers, and automating migrations using infrastructure as code. Learn from Airbnb's case study of migrating hundreds of legacy services with strict latency and uptime requirements to Kubernetes. Gain valuable insights into different migration types, including cascading, simultaneous, sequenced, and prioritized migrations. Understand the importance of reducing technical debt, managing migration overhead, and implementing effective migration strategies. Walk away with 10 key takeaways to apply when performing infrastructure migrations at scale in your own organization.