The Power of the Developer Portal: Insights from Groupon

We’re delving into the benefits of developer portals this week with Seth Lochen, Senior Engineering Manager at Groupon.

Seth shares his experience of leading Groupon's journey from a monolith to microservices and the internal developer portal that was built coming out of this migration. Seth provides an incredible overview of not just where Groupon is currently, but how this portal has grown as they have scaled. He dives into how ownership definitions and assignments have changed, the way that clean data has enabled more automation, and how they’ve used all of this to strengthen and clarify SLO’s.

Join as we discuss:

• Migrating from a monolith to microservice architecture and all the considerations to take into during that process.
• How Groupon built their own developer portal and the ways it has grown through the years.
• Using your portal to reduce friction across the development cycle so you can free up your teams to build more at scale.
• Finding the right solution at the right time. Not every company is Google or Groupon so what might be popular with them now, might not fit your current reality.