Moving Fast: the Wise Way to deliver 200+ releases a day
summary
Wise runs over 200+ releases a day across roughly 500+ microservices with ~700 engineers organized into ~100 product teams, supported by a dedicated platform tribe of ~90 platform engineers. The pipeline uses AWS, CI/CD, single‑click ephemeral environments, observability by default (Grafana, Kibana, Rollbar, Prometheus), and canary deploys and feature flags to limit blast radius. The result is frequent, small, reversible releases that the team reports scale from 1 engineer to hundreds while keeping production safe.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:25What is WISE
- 2:29Engineering scale and releases
- 3:33Moving fast for customers
- 7:04Learning from customers
- 10:39Reducing risks with small releases
- 12:45Organizational structure for speed
- 17:38Monoliths slow teams
- 19:22Transitioning to microservices
- 23:14The role of platform teams in scaling
- 25:01Balancing speed and safety
- 27:30Observability at WISE
- 29:16Continuous integration and deployment practices
- 32:48Key takeaways
- 33:32Q&A
