Road to Domain Driven: The Reckless Life of a Cloud Engineer
summary
A cloud engineering migration that replaces country-based AWS accounts with a unified AWS Organization, creates segregated cluster topology and domain-scoped namespaces on a central Kubernetes platform, and moves IAM and secrets from legacy KMS to HashiCorp Vault. The project also replaces Harness/Drone with GitLab Actions and Okta for identity; to date it has created 36 new AWS accounts, migrated 20+ of ~150 microservices, and is continuing data migration and platform work to reduce blast radius and increase team autonomy.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Cloud transformation intro
- 1:11Cloud engineer's role
- 2:36Global scalability
- 5:31Breaking country silos
- 8:20Conway's law in practice
- 9:46DDD solution
- 12:56Team Topologies vs Conway's law
- 15:40DDD vs Team Topologies
- 18:50Cloud engineers' new role
- 21:39Domain SRE and Platform teams
- 24:32Domain goals and autonomy
- 26:01Infrastructure unification
- 30:15Migration prerequisites
- 32:01Program status and next steps
- 33:28Q&A
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