Re-Culturing a 200 employees Start-Up

Our presentation for DevOpsDays TLV conference about DevOps implementation in eToro. By Dvir Greenberg and David Virtser.

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2. Re-Culturing a 200 employees Start-Up
3. Dvir Greenberg
4. David Virtser
5. Internet @Finance
6. Copy the Best Investors
7. 100k Active Investors
8. 220 employees
9. 80 engineers
10. 2 platforms
11. 120 services
12. 20 releases a week
13. running on windows
14. regulated
15. “Fortune Favors the Bold” “Audaces fortuna iuvat” Virgilius, 284 BC
16. we are inefficient
17. static environments
18. long iterations
19. deployment mess
20. big teams
21. winds of change
22. scrum
23. hackathon
24. learn what others doing
25. DevOps forum
26. map the gaps • not enough unit tests • no test automation • no real continuous integration pipeline • environment problems • low quality • production monitoring problems • big risks upon deployment • architectural gaps - SOA, APIs, one monolith database
27. set action plan
28. get management support
29. recruit a team
30. define KPIs
31. culture change
32. focus
33. self service
34. freestyle tuesdays
35. dev academy
36. boot camps
37. power to devs
38. automation
39. recruit professionals
40. cross teams collaboration
41. architecture
42. DBs
43. APIs
44. infrastructure
45. Continuous Delivery
46. it’s only the beginning
47. we are learning to walk
48. but the train left the station
49. Our Progress Before Now Unit test coverage 0.1% ~5% Test automation 0% ~10% Releases per week 10 20 Services with high standard 0 3 Monitoring dashboards 0 10 Automatic deployments 0 3 Services dropped 0 3 Lectures a week 0 1-2 Self service 0 5
50. Summary
51. eToro©2010 Presentation materials are confidential and should not be copied, distributed or passed on, directly or indirectly, to any other person. When you are standing on the edge of a cliff, a step forward is not progress. -- Anonymous If you feel R&D is slow and heavy, just pushing it more will not bring the expected results
52. Small Batches
53. eToro©2010 Presentation materials are confidential and should not be copied, distributed or passed on, directly or indirectly, to any other person. Dunbar's number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. Dunbar's number
54. What we want you to remember 1. eToro - size, domain, legacy 2. Massive changes required - Architecture + Culture 3. Changes during supporting existing growing user base 4. Archimedes points - culture change + management support 5. Change is slow, will take a while 6. Many unknowns - solve as we go 7. Most important - define end goals 8. The people on the bus are key to success
56. thank you
57. Dvir Greenberg Email: dvirg@etoro.com Twitter: @dvirg
58. David Virtser Email: davidv@etoro.com Twitter: @poison_dv Blog: http://virtser.net