Wednesday
Room 1
15:00 - 16:00
(UTC±00)
Talk (60 min)
How we support multi-cloud apps at Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow recently shifted to the cloud, hosting Teams and Enterprise on Azure and our public sites on GCP. This meant our services had to run seamlessly in both environments.
In this talk, I’ll share how our Platform Engineering team built the abstractions that make multi-cloud support easy for developers. Using Kubernetes as a common runtime, we standardised infrastructure metadata, created a Stack-specific flavour of the CNAB spec, and built Go-based CLI tools to simplify deployment. Our approach provides a layer between infrastructure and execution, minimising multi-cloud complexity for engineers.
I’ll cover both our philosophy and the technical details—highlighting what worked, what didn’t, and what we learned along the way.
Chris O'Dell
Chris has spent over 20 years as a backend engineer at companies including Stack Overflow, Apple, Monzo, Contino and Just Eat. She has led teams delivering highly available Web APIs, distributed systems and cloud based services. She has also led teams developing internal build and deployment tooling with the goal of improving the developer’s experience. Chris promotes practices such as Continuous Delivery, including TDD, version control, and Continuous Integration.
www.chrisodell.me.uk
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/christineodell