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Moving Off the Monolith: Implementing a Decentralized Framework to Drive Scale up Growth

Scaling and re-platforming your operating systems to meet the scale of your company can be a never ending task. Re-engineering, re-training, and re-tooling; it can quickly become overwhelming. Our guest today discusses his approach to refocusing and building out a technical and decentralized framework in a company that had previously viewed tech as an enabler not a driver of business growth.Andreas Westendörpf, Chief Technology Officer at Emma Sleep joins to discuss his teams’ replatforming effort as Emma scaled to a worldwide e-commerce brand, reaching 30 different countries since its start in 2015.

Join us as we discuss:

  • Moving off the monolith
  • Making decisions in a decentralized framework
  • Empowering individual teams to move quickly
  • Build vs Buy OR Build and Rent