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temporal: Workflow Orchestration Engine

Temporal.io is a workflow engine providing SDKs for Java, Python, Golang to define workflows. No DSL.

PlatformOps

PlatformOps

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New Logging: Loki

Logging is crucial - and daunting to maintain, if done the old way. You need big ElasticSearch Cluster, which is sadly quite heavy on every aspect - CPU, RAM, disk I/O and maintenance. It is quite expensive. There must be a better way, and as we found out, the folks from Grafana where already on it.

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PlatformOps

PlatformOps

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Platform Engineering Backstage

Everybodys talking about it, and for good reasons Developer Portals. For us, as a very small team with many tasks, the promise is bold. A central catalog of all services and tools, having all documentations and contact persons at one place, with easy-to-integrate automations for developer self service.

PlatformOps

PlatformOps

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Douglas - Our Mission >

Douglas - Our Mission

Providing the best-in-class shopping experience around the clock for all our customers is our goal at Douglas, and our mission is to provide a resilent, self-healing, high-performance technical environment for the core shop systems and all auxillary systems developed by our software engineering teams to keep this a lasting reality.

Frank Fischer, Head of IT-OPS at Douglas

Our mission

IT-OPS is the Production Engineering organization that builds, operates, and improves the technical infrastructure of the E-Commerce platforms at DOUGLAS, used by our marketing, engineering and software development teams all across Europe.

As Commerce happens 24/7, IT-OPS needs to provide 24/7 coverage for all shop-related incidents.

The IT-OPS team at DOUGLAS follows cutting edge strategies to deliver a resilient and high-performmance shopping experience for our customers. We are really cloud native, adopting wholeheartedly GitOps and pipeline driven infrastructure as code and use elastic up- and downscaling Kubernetes-clusters for production and development/staging workloads.