Growing Pains, Portal Gains: The Evolution of Skyscanner
summary
Skyscanner documents shifting from six to eight week Big Bang releases to 1,000 deployments a day after a cloud migration that ends on‑prem data centers and moves everything to AWS. Engineering builds an mshell templating layer to create microservices in ~10 minutes, and homegrown tools — Surveyor, Codlift, Flightworthy, Tals, Tower — collect repo metadata, automate upgrades and enforce a catalog.yaml; many tools fragment but Tower evolves into an IDP and Cortex scorecards replace spreadsheets to measure CI adoption and production readiness.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 4:21Siloed organizational model
- 9:39Agile transformation with tribes and squads
- 13:17Cloud migration and DevOps shift
- 20:45Fragmented tooling challenges
- 26:20IDP adoption with Cortex
- 30:10Q&A on evolution and mandates
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