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Falk025DevelopmentOperationsCloudRewriting OTTO in Rust: oxidizing our codebase, one service at a time
Why are we rewriting OTTO in Rust? ✍️💻 Find out why we’ve chosen Rust and how we’ve migrated Lambdas and microservices.👉 Read more here.
Andreas00DevelopmentCloudSecuritySecure Service Tokens with Keycloak Token Exchange – Automated with Terraform
🖥️ Learn how to set up suitable service tokens for microservices with Keycloak Token Exchange – automated with Terraform 👉 Read now!
Nina14Data scienceDevelopmentCloudTerraform Tips: Securing Infrastructure-as-Code with Terratest – Part 3
Learn how to test Terraform modules with Terratest, detect errors early on and reliably secure IaC in CI/CD pipelines. 🖥️✔️
COST01DevelopmentCloudHow we used a simple trick to save USD 500,000 in data transfer costs
Increased efficiency of cloud usage ✓ Cost reduction ✓ Migration to dual-stack IPv6 ✓ Find out more now!
Alexander00DevelopmentCloudSecurityEnterprise-scaled Self-Healing StackSets
At OTTO, we need to manage several hundred AWS accounts for our product teams while balancing agility and control. That's why OTTO IT's Cloud Competence Center, also known as the Governance at Scale (GAS) team, worked with globaldatanet to develop a solution to run AWS CloudFormation StackSets at Scale, integrated into the OTTO tooling ecosystem with Confluence and Microsoft Teams.
Philipp00DevelopmentCloudInfrastructure as Code (IaC) – keeping Terraform configuration DRY with Terragrunt
The key is to minimize, or even completely eliminate, code repetition by keeping the Terraform configuration DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself). This is why we migrated to Terragrunt. It's a small wrapper around Terraform promising reduced repetition, better remote-state configuration, and simpler work with Terraform modules. It can be a viable solution for better organizing configuration files and clearly stating differences between deployment environments.
Christopher00DevelopmentWorking methodsCloudDynamic Pricing for otto.de
The article outlines the basic features of Otto’s Dynamic Pricing service, which is currently used to set prices for the majority of products on otto.de. It further describes how we successfully built the service as a robust and scalable cloud application able to deliver prices for millions of articles on a daily basis. It also explains how we benefited from working on our application in a cross-functional team setup and how we intend to secure the continuous improvement of our service.
Marco00ArchitectureWorking methodsCloudOTTO's future-ready Event Exchange Platform – with Apache Kafka
When we launched our platform implementation back in 2018, we jointly committed to creating state-of-the-art software aligned with thoroughly modern and proven practices. First off, we deep-dived on modern software architectures including Event Driven, Microservices, Distributed Systems, Cloud Native and DevOps – which resulted in a couple of positive architecture decisions.
