Microservices At Gilt - NYC Microservices Meetup
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Brief overview of the evolution of the micro service architecture at Gilt, including a summary of challenges we faced at various stages and how we approached solving them.
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- 1. Micro Services at Gilt May 12, 2015 – NYC Microservices Meetup Michael Bryzek CTO & Co-Founder Gilt michael@gilt.com / @mbryzek http://tech.gilt.com / @gilttech
- 2. GILT: LIFESTYLE PLATFORM WOMEN MEN BABY & KIDS HOME EVENTS CITY Gilt is a members-only lifestyle destination and ecommerce site that provides insider access to today’s top designer labels as well as exclusive local experiences
- 3. GILT: BEAUTIFUL CURATED ECOMMERCE
- 4. 9 MILLION+ active members 500 MILLION+ monthly press impressions 6,000+ brand relationships 3.0 weekly visits per visitor 40% of sales generated through mobile 180+ countries shipped to 1 MILLION+ social media participants 6.5 MILLION+ mobile downloads with over 2 million push notifications GILT: CONNECTED AUDIENCE 95% URBAN live in a metropolitan area 94% INFLUENTIAL tell friends and family about their Gilt experience 89% SOCIAL are active on social media78% ENGAGED visit the site 6+ times a month, of which, 77% visit 10+ times a month 73% MOBILE shop Gilt on their mobile device
- 7. Noon EST “Half an Amazon”
- 9. Circa 2011
- 10. Challenges • Felt harder to build new things than it should be • Cascading failures / Lack of isolation • Hard to incorporate new technologies
- 11. Approach Empower and trust teams
- 12. A Foundation of Psychology • Man’s Search for Meaning by Frankl • Teach Your Children Well by Levine • Thinking Fast and Slow by Kahneman "Why don't more people self- actualize if their basic needs are met?” -- Abraham Maslow
- 13. Small Teams and KPIs • Each team owns a metric (KPI) • Provides accountability, alignment • Enables autonomy, master, purpose http://www.slideshare.net/reidhoffman http://tech.gilt.com/post/44792645000/scaling-agile-at-gilt https://labs.spotify.com/2014/03/27/spotify-engineering-culture- part-1/
- 14. Circa 2014
- 15. Circa 2015 – in AWS
- 16. Our Evolution
- 17. New Challenges w/ Micro Services • Dev / Test Process • Ownership • Deployment • APIs • Monitoring • Alerting • Single request performance
- 19. Thank you Michael Bryzek CTO & Co-Founder Gilt michael@gilt.com / @mbryzek http://tech.gilt.com / @gilttech