Engineering Transformation at Scale with Chris Dillon

Podcast Thursday, August 31 2023

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Cox Automotive has been at the frontier of digitizing the automotive space with popular products such as AutoTrader, Kelly Blue Book, and Dealertrack. To deliver these products the company manages large quantities of data and diverse engineering teams. Scaling its operations required an engineering transformation of the company.

Chris Dillon is the VP of Architecture and Engineering Enablement at Cox Automotive. He joins the podcast to talk about how the company accomplished this transformation.

This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His best-selling book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media), is an essential resource for technical teams looking to maintain high availability and manage risk in their cloud environments.

Lee is the host of his podcast, Modern Digital Business, an engaging and informative podcast produced for people looking to build and grow their digital business with the help of modern applications and processes developed for today’s fast-moving business environment. Listen at mdb.fm. Follow Lee at softwarearchitectureinsights.com, and see all his content at leeatchison.com.

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