How the Financial Times Scaled from 12 to 30,000 Releases a Year

Small changes, big impacts.

Independent tech consultant and author, Sarah Wells, shares her insights on what it takes to scale an engineering org. Her forthcoming O'Reilly Media book, "Enabling Microservice Success," draws from her journey at the Financial Times, covering crucial approaches and organizational structures for scaling by adopting a microservices architecture. Sarah highlights the importance of balancing standardization and autonomy, with a focus on engineering enablement. But not just that, because she says as you cultivate a culture where teams own their software in production, strategies like incident workshops, shadowing on-call rotations, and fostering blameless incidents will become a wholesome byproduct your teams can’t live without.

Join us as we discuss:

• What the key challenges were that Sarah faced during the transition to a microservices architecture at the Financial Times
• Why engineering enablement is crucial for the success of microservices within an organization
• How Sarah's team measured the success and impact of engineering enablement at the Financial Times