ITV's Common Platform
summary
ITV builds a company-wide cloud Common Platform using Puppet for config, Terraform (and a homegrown Terrafile) for infra, and AWS to host critical apps like the ITV Hub and talent payroll, running 14 instances of the platform with a core team of 13 engineers (up from 3). Work is versioned with semantic specs, ~300 module repos, environments spin up in minutes-to-weeks instead of months, blast radius is ring‑fenced, and reliability and deployment speed measurably improve.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:10About ITV
- 3:14ITV's digital transformation
- 5:42Developing the common platform
- 7:05Core platform principles
- 10:53Technical implementation
- 15:37Building the team
- 18:28Structure and operations
- 22:21Platform specification
- 25:20Results and future outlook
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