Etsy wraps two year Google Cloud project
Etsy has completed its migration to Google Cloud.
It began the project in 2018 and has since moved 5.5 petabytes of data from 2,000 on-premise servers.
The online marketplace says that it has been able to shift 15% of its engineering headcount from managing system infrastructure to focusing on the customer experience, increase its velocity to run IT experiments by 115% in 2019, and operate more sustainably as it works towards 100% renewable electricity by the end of this year.
“Our mission is to keep commerce human, and technology plays a vital role in this. We have more than 65 million one-of-a-kind items in our marketplace and are using cutting-edge machine learning to continually improve the experience for our community,” says Mike Fisher, CTO at Etsy.
“We needed a technology partner that was both a culture fit for Etsy in terms of agility, efficiency, and innovation, and also had the technical chops to move our business forward. Google Cloud met those requirements.”
