Re-imagining Hiscox IT: A DevOps Story

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Hiscox replaces its home insurance stack with DaVinci £100M platform and builds a platform services team that trains product-aligned “purple” teams. Deployment automation and Bamboo CI take releases from two a day to ~50 deploys a day, yielding 97% reduction in release cost and 89% faster deployments; 5,000 releases occur in six months, change cycles drop from six weeks to two, and online conversion doubles in two weeks. Azure and infrastructure-as-code are chosen to shift ops to PaaS.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:58Business context at Hiscox
3. 3:13DevOps journey begins
4. 5:27Federal IT organization
5. 6:24The role of platform services
6. 8:40DaVinci project
7. 11:03Purple people teams
8. 11:54Deployment automation
9. 13:10Results and achievements
10. 14:07Overcoming cultural challenges
11. 17:26Rewards of the DevOps journey
12. 18:55Moving to the cloud
13. 20:03Cloud strategy and skills
14. 28:51Conclusion

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