FreeBSD
Operating system and foundation of the production platform.
Kleinanzeigen.de, 2014–2019
Lead/Sole Engineer for Kleinanzeigen.de, 2014–2019. Rebuilt and operated the FreeBSD platform end to end in Go, before its sale to eBay. A first-person biographical statement by Franz Bettag.
Technical responsibility
Go
Language used for the rebuild from 2014 to 2019.
End to end
Engineering and operation across system and application boundaries. Responsibility for rebuilding the application and running it in production, not just for an individual component.
Period and role
Lead/Sole Engineer from 2014 to 2019. The role, dates and responsibilities are first-person statements; this page is not independent confirmation by the current operator.
Boundary: no Kubernetes
The platform described here used Go on FreeBSD. Kubernetes belongs to other platform and cloud projects, not this rebuild. No publicly verified user, traffic or revenue figures are claimed here.
From this work to your project
Production experience for your platform
Application development and operations still belong together: traceable deployments, clear ownership and recovery plans. Existing platform teams can engage for architecture and implementation work; recurring incidents call for a focused SRE review.
