Shibata: Who’s squarely working with monoliths? Keep your hands up if you consider these monoliths as your legacy services.
Stewart: Who’s migrated from monoliths to microservices? A few. Who’s using Kubernetes for those, in production?
Shibata: Who’s moving back to monolith?
Stewart: The people who started with monoliths and don’t consider them legacy, that was a choice? Anyone want to raise their hand and say I chose to do a monolith? A couple.
Shibata: This talk is all about, where are we now? Microservices became mainstream. We are moving more towards a centralized architecture. Some of us are considering moving to Kubernetes already in there, like we’ve seen earlier. We as an industry have been talking about storage growth. We learned some lessons along the way. We’re going to talk more about the challenges we faced transitioning in comparethemarket and how we solved those challenges.
Stewart: We’re going to take you on a journey through several years of evolution at comparethemarket, discussing why we built our own platforms, and how microservice has facilitated growth at comparethemarket. Importantly, how we save our customer’s money.
Background
Shibata: This is Adam Stewart. He’s our Principal Solutions Architect. He’s one of the key persons involved in building Comparison as a Service.
Stewart: This is Kenichi. Kenichi is a Cloud Solution Architect. He’s responsible for our Kubernetes platform and all the great things around that.
Who Are Comparethemarket?
Kenichi, who are comparethemarket?
Shibata: Comparethemarket allows customers to compare prices on a number of insurance products, including car, home, van, pet, life, travel, and over 50s insurance. It has also expanded into comparison of items that can be switched, such as energy, utilities, broadband, and digital TV, as well as a large range of financial products such as loans, credit cards, and ISAs. Recently, I’ve been trying to get some mortgage on it. We are a price comparison website. We’re aggregating quotes for all sorts of products from insurance to finance.
Stewart: Comparethemarket started life in 2006, just as the comparison and aggregation market was really starting to take off. During that time, I think everybody just felt comparison was the same. There were other competitors. We all looked the same. We were delivering the same message. It was all about saving money on car insurance. Really struggled to differentiate in the marketplace from those competitors. Then, in 2009, all of that changed, really, with the launch of the Meerkats. We’ve continued to grow consistently ever since then, really.
How many people in the room have used comparethemarket for comparison services? Quite a few of you, so you know who we are. For the rest of you, why not?
Takeaways
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