Spark: Innovating in the Cloud

A Spark Venture’s Story Pete Yates – Head Ops, IT & Platforms

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Our Ventures

What is Spark Ventures?

With over 300,000 customers

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Why?

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Supporting & growing 6 startups

The Ventures could act like startups, we could not

Learn Fast & Act with Agility

Mind-set Shift

Keep $$ low People Scale $&

StabilityGuiding

Principles

“Build now, scale for later”

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Why AWS?

Flexibility Business Alignment Velocity

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Lightbox simultaneous streams

Bigpipe subscribers

100%

to 15-30 mins for env. builds

1day

The last 12 months…

Over 6m hours of content viewed

100%

to 5-10minsfor prod

deployments

45mins

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Microservices

Product Ecosyste

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Continuous Delivery

Ecosystem

Technology Ecosystem

Infrastructure

Ecosystem

Open Source Contributions

Spark

Technolog

y Capabilitie

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Monitoring & Analytics CRM

Mobile & Wearables

Web App

Test Automation

BillingPayment

Identity

ISTM

Technology Platform

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