We replaced Redis with Valkey with no production downtime and no application changes, just a few lines of Terraform. Here is why an uneventful infrastructure migration is often the best possible outcome.
At Wehkamp Tech Hub, we replaced a physical planning wall with a digital roadmap tool. Here’s how we built a read-only Jira-powered SPA that generates HD slides, visualizes team bottlenecks, and keeps leadership informed – without giving everyone access to Jira.
At Wehkamp, we’ve been very busy with the migration of our container platform. Our (old) Blaze platform runs on Mesos, Marathon, and NGINX, but we’re shifting to a new Atlas platform, powered by Kubernetes and Istio. This setup gives us more resilience, security and auto scaling. A year ago, we successfully migrated our www-ingress to this new platform. This week, we set our sights on migrating the app-ingress for our Android and IOS backend services. Unfortunately, things didn’t go as planned…