Letting Go of Legacy
summary
A presentation describes OLX Brasil’s migration from a 20+-year legacy classifieds platform to a modern architecture to sustain growth. It covers the platform’s historical evolution, shortcomings of the old architecture, building initial APIs, trade-offs when splitting into microservices, and a move toward an event-sourcing–based architecture.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:11Platform scale problems
- 7:09Legacy layered architecture
- 13:25Initial plan limitations
- 16:40Switch to multidisciplinary teams
- 19:46State-based new architecture
- 24:03First stage: insertion and enrichment
- 27:15Technologies and implementation
- 31:01Governance challenges and tools
- 33:58Lessons learned and reflections
- 36:09Q&A
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