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Integrated Observability Platform

Summary

I was responsible for the technical implementation of a cloud-native observability platform for a world-leading insurance company. The solution enabled a unified view on the development process and increased transparency and traceability.

Challenge

The world-leading insurance company operated numerous development teams with different toolchains. Information on builds, tickets, and deployments resided in separate systems. This lack of centralized overview led to unclear cycle times and limited controllability.

Approach

As Lead Developer, I was responsible for the architecture and implementation of the platform within a mixed team of internal and external developers. The solution was built modularly to iteratively integrate new data sources. Through a custom web UI, information from GitHub Actions, Jira, ArgoCD, Container Registry, and feature flag tools was provided in consolidated form.

Outcome

The platform enabled developers to track the status of their features across environments and deployment stages in a consolidated manner. For management, it provided transparency over previously scattered information in development and deployment processes.

Technical Highlights

React-based web UI, Node.js backend with PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch, microservices as interface layer to GitHub Actions, Jira, ArgoCD, Container Registry and feature flags. Infrastructure and deployment via AWS ECS, automated with Terraform. Architecture designed for real-time integration, extensibility, and high usability for developers.

Tags

ObservabilityPlatformEngineeringDeveloperExperienceSelfServiceAWSTerraformElasticsearchCloudNativeJavaScriptGo
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