Seven years and counting – The DevOps journey at Hermes Germany
summary
Hermes Germany moves from siloed functional teams (planning, dev, test, ops) in 2015 to cross-functional product teams with T‑shaped skills, invests heavily in automated testing and Continuous Delivery, and migrates services to cloud Kubernetes and serverless platforms so teams own deploys. This reduces testing scope, raises deployment frequency and shortens lead time for changes, introduces infrastructure as code and Disaster Recovery days to rehearse restores, and shifts leadership toward trust, learning, and measurable flow.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 2:12Starting the DevOps journey in 2015
- 4:46Moving from silos to product teams
- 9:02Introducing DevOps principles
- 12:33Cloud adoption and infrastructure evolution
- 15:52Continuous delivery and fast feedback
- 18:41Leadership and cultural shift
- 20:52Business continuity and disaster recovery
- 23:18Current frontiers and challenges
- 26:34Key takeaways and summary
- 26:54Q&A session
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