Velocity at Scale: How Delivery Hero runs a global tech organization
summary
Delivery Hero claims running 132 million orders last half year with around 600 engineers across ~12 core locations and dozens of local apps while achieving 99% automated dispatch. Organization uses small cross‑functional teams (~6–8), global verticals (consumer, restaurant, logistics) and extracts shared services like a logistics API. Tech choices include Kubernetes + Docker + Terraform, Postgres, Elasticsearch, REST APIs, GitHub RFCs, and common monitoring; CI/CD aims for tens of releases per day and immutable images with teams on call.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:10Delivery Hero
- 6:50Uber Amazon
- 8:50Velocity without scale
- 11:20Organization
- 17:40Team structure
- 21:20Global teams
- 24:30Locality
- 26:15Platform
- 27:45Summary
- 28:40What happens inside the team
- 29:30Communication
- 31:35Microservices
- 33:40Operations
- 35:40Questions
- 43:05Economies of scale
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