Richard Still, Technical Director, Financial Times – The Next Generation FT.com: Delivering Speed and Innovation at Scale
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Richard Still, Technical Director, Financial Times – The Next Generation FT.com: Delivering Speed and Innovation at Scale
- 1. Richard Still Technical Director, Financial Times @rikstill Delivering the next generation FT.com
- 2. Photo credit: Nicky Wrightson I’m from the
- 3. @rikstill The FT 1. Global leading financial publisher 2. 843,000 paid for customers 3. 650,000 digital only subscribers 4. 1.9 million daily readership 5. We operate with a strict paywall
- 4. @rikstill
- 5. @rikstill The new FT.com aka Next Increased engagement 20%
- 6. @rikstill The new FT.com aka Next Increased ads viewability 72%
- 7. @rikstill The new FT.com aka Next Fastest site in the industry 1.3s
- 8. @rikstill The new FT.com aka Next ROI 50%
- 9. @rikstill How: 3 Pillars of successful scaling and fast delivery Technology Process People
- 10. @rikstill How: Tech culture Born in the cloud mentality Bias for action Innovate at speed Huge preference for *aaS (massive, really big) Empowered full stack engineers
- 11. @rikstill How: Tech choices Support our culture Continuous delivery Modern architecture
- 12. @rikstill How: The P word Really important! Must get it right Can kill productivity
- 13. @rikstill What we built Presentation tier of FT.com Real-time analytics platform (NGDA) Email platform
- 14. @rikstill What we built Microservices architecture Hundreds of apps Many releases to prod a day Follows 12 Factor App methodology Instrument everything using Graphite
- 16. @rikstill NGDA and email platform Took “best in class” commoditised tech Built quickly using small teams Targeted functionality
- 17. @rikstill About our stack Ephemeral envs. Easy to do Cost effective
- 18. @rikstill About our stack Mostly runs on 1x or 2x Dynos Performance Dynos on critical path
- 19. @rikstill Heroku journey Initially used as a Labs playground Next built on Heroku right from the start Didn’t introduce lots of vendor lock-in Minimal tooling Multi-region
- 20. @rikstill AWS Critical supporting services on AWS
- 21. @rikstill Devops all the things Devops transition has been easier Operational issues are mostly application bugs
- 22. @rikstill Summary Survival is based on ability to ship Tight focus on building value Choice of tech to allow innovation key
- 23. Richard Still Technical Director, Financial Times @rikstill And they all lived happily ever after! We’re recruiting: www.ft.com/careers