Continuous Deployment

Case Study: AutoScout24

To kickstart our case studies section, Simon Mittermüller and Thiago Vacare will tell us about the adoption of continuous deployment at AutoScout24, a European online car marketplace. Simon joined AutoScout24 in 2016. As a principal software engineer, he is a key contributor to the strategic direction of Product Engineering, driving technical decisions and cross-team efforts. Part of his role is to ensure a balance between rapid progress and the reliability and quality of AutoScout24. Thiago has been at AutoScout24 since 2020. As a platform engineer, he designs, builds, and maintains infrastructure and frameworks to support and abstract software applications and services from developer teams. He has worked in different platform teams, managing a Kubernetes cluster with more than 400 microservices, developing Accelerate metrics to enhance product delivery and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), migrating platforms to AWS, and managing incidents. In this case study, you can read about their experience with continuous deployment.

AutoScout24’s Context

AutoScout24 is the largest pan-European online car market, with over 30 million users per month and more than 43,000 dealer partners. It offers a comprehensive platform for buying and selling cars online, including used and new cars, motorcycles, caravans, and transporters. The platform provides features such as smart search, financing, price and car evaluation, and a secure environment through ...