Paolo Ragone
Paolo Ragone is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Trade Me. Prior to joining Trade Me in May 2020, Paolo worked on product & innovation at Ebay, held the position of CTO at Gumtree Australia, and most recently was CTO, General Manager at Air New Zealand. Paolo has over 18 years of experience across a variety of industries but the world of classifieds is close to his heart.
Trade Me is Aotearoa's largest marketplace and classifieds site with more than five million active members and seven million live listings. Every day over 650,000 Kiwi come to Trade Me to create the life they want.
From a technology perspective, Trade Me is built as a monolithic
web application (and mobile apps) that has served the business for well over 20 years.
With increasing needs to deliver more value to our customers and to be able to make changes faster, its monolithic nature has become a limitation. Over 20 years the platform has accumulated some technical debt that also needs to be addressed to enable a modern, easy and exciting platform that delivers value to Kiwi.
In this talk, I'd like to tell you how we plan to modernise our monolith, move from a monolithic architecture to a monolith + microservices architecture, and the architectural approach we've taken.