From Scraping to Stardom: Making Data a VIP in Distributed Archit - M. Macero & E. Verseput - JOTB24

Get ready for a real talk about our rollercoaster ride from a green-energy start-up to scaling up at Sympower! Two years ago, we were rocking an MVP monolith, but when the time came to level up, we had to ditch the old, embrace microservices and add a proper data platform into the mix.

In this talk we talk, we'll spill the beans on the challenges we phased in:

Starting with a data platform in an architecture that wasn’t built for it, and learning how data platforms shouldn’t connect to databases without the knowledge of their owners
Making data a first-class citizen in the distributed architecture
Establishing data platform awareness and responsibilities across all engineering teams: DevDataSecOps!
We will share the how-tos, the oh-nos, and all the 'Aha!' moments – the good, the bad, and the ugly!