Keynote: A Journey to a Centralized, Globally Distributed Platform

For over a century Cond Nast International has set the benchmark for print and digital publishing. With brands like Vogue, GQ, Wired, Cond Nast Traveller under our umbrella we are operating in more …

For over a century Condé Nast International has set the benchmark for print and digital publishing. With brands like Vogue, GQ, Wired, Condé Nast Traveller under our umbrella we are operating in more than 12 markets across different geographies, including Russia and China. Whilst serving content to million of customers daily (220m unique users per month), it has become paramount to have a scalable, fault tolerant and highly available infrastructure, combined with a robust delivery process. Originating with a fragment technological ladscape, Condé Nast International is progressing with a remarkable project to embrace cloud native principles and deliver a centralized, globally distributed platform that will further emancipate our international teams.This talk aims to highlight Condé Nast International’s journey to deliver a multi-cluster distributed Kubernetes platform, with a centralized management mechanism and self-service CI/CD process.