Company
Date Published
Author
Scott Dunbar, Director of Engineering Enablement, Sportradar
Word count
982
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

At Sportradar, a leading sports technology company, they employ platform engineering to support their developers and enhance their development experience. This approach includes restructuring teams for self-sufficiency, using paved roads for common developer tasks, creating a core set of common metrics, and publishing a managed services catalog. By doing so, the company aims to deliver positive outcomes for customers while reducing complexity and increasing time-to-market. The platform engineering enables a cohesive approach, aligning DevOps and platform engineers around common principles and goals, and ensuring that developers can focus on building great applications without worrying about the ecosystem.