At DFDS, one of our core strategic initiatives is to have a software architecture that allows for autonomous teams, enabling fast time to market and easy scaling making sure DFDS delivers value to our customers. Read more from one of our software architects, Martin Oskarsson, as he tells about unique solutions he and others have developed at DFDS.

For the past year I have been part of the new cloud first initiative of the shipping and logistics company DFDS. The cloud first initiative is not a movement to force everything into the cloud but rather have cloud as the first option if it makes sense. Read Rune Abrahamsson's story, as he tells more about the cloud first initiative at DFDS.

About a year ago I was given a great opportunity: To head up a Development Excellence team in DFDS. My first question was simply:” What is development excellence?” and I have since explained it many times. Now I thought it was time to do it in writing.

This last year we have started a new era, trying to take our, IMO, pretty pro setup and do it even better. I guess I could name it "Beyond Pro." We have started measuring our time to market. Today, all teams have a potentially shippable product after each sprint, some teams can ship daily. We have started on a journey breaking down our monoliths, using a microservice architecture. This has turned into a strategic goal for DFDS.

Nowadays most of the big companies are moving into cloud-based development to have low-cost deployments and also to have flexible architectures for their services. Business needs pushed us into more scalable architectures which bring micro-service understanding. Read more about Chaos Engineering, as our chaos engineer Dudu Hazal OK tells us more about the IT Transformation happening at DFDS.