Online marketplace · 8M monthly users
Moving the plumbing while the water stays on.
Before
A senior engineer was losing one week a month babysitting their self-managed data pipeline. Every outage hit the homepage. Hiring more infra people wasn't solving it.
What we built
We migrated the pipeline to a managed service over six weeks, running both side-by-side until we were certain. Customers never saw a change. The on-call rotation shrank from four engineers to two.
After
That engineer is back on product work. The infra bill went down. The team stopped dreading Sunday nights.
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You'll recognize this if…
- →A core system runs on something only one person fully understands
- →You're paying senior engineers to be janitors
- →A migration sounds necessary but the downtime risk is unacceptable