4 ways we implement platform engineering at Sportradar
Blog post from New Relic
Sportradar, a leading sports technology company, enhances its developer experience by conducting workshops to gather insights and challenges from its engineering community, leading to the adoption of a cohesive platform engineering approach that emphasizes self-sufficiency and cross-functionality among developer teams. By implementing a model inspired by Spotify, Sportradar reorganized its teams in 2019, allowing DevOps specialists to be embedded within squads while maintaining a central platform function. The company employs a "paved roads" strategy to streamline common developer tasks and reduce friction, utilizing standardized metrics like availability, reliability, and performance through tools such as New Relic to simplify observability. Additionally, Sportradar has developed an internal developer portal featuring a managed services catalog and scorecards to facilitate project bootstrapping and service selection, enabling developers to focus on application complexities rather than the surrounding ecosystem. This structured approach, supported by an engineering enablement group, aligns platform and DevOps engineers with common goals and ensures the effective implementation of best practices across the organization.