How Back Market Rebuilt Its Platform by Changing Cloud Provider
summary
Back Market describes migrating its platform from AWS to Google Cloud (GCP) in about eight months, moving services handling 1.25 billion requests/week and 4 million daily visitors across three regions. The migration used Kubernetes tooling (kops → GKE with Dataplane v2), ArgoCD, Helm, Docker, Terraform, CircleCI, Cloudflare and DataDog, replaced Aurora/MySQL with Postgres, and adopted BigQuery and Crossplane; a 15-day proof-of-concept validated the approach and reduced individual service migration time from five days to about 1 hour 40 minutes while eliminating self-managed cluster overhead.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:04Hypergrowth technical challenges
- 9:30Modernization strategy 2018
- 13:19Hypergrowth phase
- 19:04Cloud provider switch decision
- 23:36Technical prep and validation
- 26:23GCP POC and choice
- 31:15Migration and team management
- 35:29Results and conclusions
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