The Journey from Print to Online Journalism is Cloudy
summary
Axel Springer migrates a monolithic Java/JSP CMS onto a private European Cloud Foundry install, cutting deploy cycles to 10-minute continuous delivery with Jenkins, Gradle, SonarQube and blue/green rollouts. Initial test coverage sits at 6–13% and 70% of ops work was manual; automated pipelines plus Logstash, Datadog metrics, PagerDuty and user-provided services (MySQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch) enable rapid prototyping and shared SaaS modules. Upgrades and some services proved fragile, but production runs months with virtually no downtime and only two operators.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction to journey
- 3:04Print journalism decline
- 9:51Cloud project vision
- 13:44Technical evaluation process
- 20:44Cloud Foundry challenges
- 22:56Cloud Foundry benefits
- 24:41Future service platform
- 27:10Prototyping culture
- 29:17Evolution and adaptation
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