The Ministry of Justice defines "modern" not as the newest technology but as the ongoing process of managing and improving its vast legacy of critical systems.
The hosting landscape includes thousands of services on Kubernetes, VMs, and on-premise servers, with a pragmatic cloud migration strategy focused on incremental improvements.
The ideal architecture uses dedicated platforms for new services, data analytics, and legacy migration to provide consistency while empowering individual service teams.
A technically superior platform will fail without adoption, which requires early and continuous internal marketing to product, delivery, and finance stakeholders to secure buy-in.
Centralized platforms enable a small expert team to implement improvements, like security patches, that benefit all services simultaneously, increasing efficiency and resilience.
True DevOps is a culture of empathy and knowledge sharing between developers and infrastructure engineers that requires deliberate investment in cross-training and collaboration.
The Ministry of Justice operates in the open, with public code on GitHub, strategy blogs, and open job roles for those interested in their work.
The speaker answers audience questions about the scope of DevOps, the culture of maintaining legacy systems, career advice for women in tech, and the impact of government changes.
ROSEN Technology and Research Center GmbH
Lingen (Ems), Germany
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44:31Martin Beránek
40:40Den Prysukhin
50:23Andrew Holway
50:06Jens Happe
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