Moving a Platform Without Moving the Teams
13 May 2026, 10:15 – 10:45 · Room 2A · Platform & Infra · Talk (30 min)
Vela migrated four hundred services onto a new platform over eighteen months without a freeze and without a migration team. The trick was making the new path cheaper than the old one for the person doing the work that week, and never once asking a team to migrate as a favour.
Speakers
Nadia Haddad
VP Engineering, Vela