From Traditional to GitOps A Tale of Modernizing Two Government Institutions in One Year

Do you fear missing the Serverless/Microservices/DDD/Reactive/GitOps era? You’re not alone. Despite hyped technologies, not everyone is working at a FAANG and many consultants out-there struggle to modernize well-established development teams culture, technology and process. This talk presents a generic approach used in two mid-sized government institutions (500 employees) running projects in Java and NodeJS. Describing how these institutions were evaluated, trained, and most importantly how DDD, Reactive, GitOps, Kubernetes . . . makes sense (or not) in this kind of context. Presenting the current results and how developer’s life improved (or not) by reducing technical debt.