From Traditional to Git Ops A Tale of Modernizing Two Government Institutions in One Year

Do you fear missing the Serverless, Microservices, DDD, Reactive, GitOps era You re not alone. Despite hyped technologies, not everyone is working at a FAANG and many consultants outthere struggle to modernize wellestablished development teams culture, technology and process. This talk presents a generic approach used in two midsized government institutions (500+ employees) running projects in Java and NodeJS. Describing how these institutions were evaluated, trained, and most importantly how DDD, Reactive, GitOps, Kubernetes. .. makes sense (or not) in this kind of context. Presenting the current results and how developer s life improved (or not) by reducing technical debt.