Platforms FTW!
summary
Claims a platform speeds product delivery and contains failures so teams can move fast; Hyatt builds an API facade with Netflix Zuul as the gateway, a versioned uniform API, rate limiting and circuit breakers, and backend aggregation to reduce chattiness. Deployment runs in AWS VPC with Vagrant and Ansible for five‑minute environments. Plans include a real‑time streaming analytics layer (Storm) and possible multi‑tenant externalization. Gateway and colleague UI are in production and working, though support staffing for platform services proves higher than expected.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Start
- 1:41What is a Platform?
- 3:39In slightly more technical terms...
- 7:16AWS
- 8:22Heroku
- 8:49Netflix OSS
- 9:46Cloud Foundry
- 10:44Other Notable Examples
- 18:54The Bezos Mandate
- 21:23Homogeneous Platform
- 25:41Heterogeneous Platform + Core Services
- 30:45API Façade
- 32:13API Gateway features
- 33:50Future Enhancements
- 36:16Hyatt Hospitality Platform
- 39:18What's in a name?
- 41:11DevOps is like Porn
- 43:25Full Stack Developers
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