Welcome to the Rightmove tech blog
Monolith to microservice – how we rebuilt a legacy frontend
It’s an inescapable fact that any technology company will eventually have to deal with legacy code.
Systems naturally age over time, and often become more difficult to change or understand. They may have business logic becoming tangled with implementation details in a sprawling monolithic codebase, or may become stuck on older versions of languages or frameworks. Sometimes we can live with the risks for internal-only tools, but what about for external, revenue-generating applications?
From traditional to trailblazing: Rightmove’s IT transformation journey
Over the past 12 months, Rightmove’s IT team has been on a journey, one that is taking us from a traditional IT function focused on back office support, to a more proactive, product-enabled, user-focussed IT team. It’s been a year of bold moves, big ideas and ambitious OKRs. As we reflect on the past year, and look at how far we’ve come, something that’s glaringly obvious is how much learning has taken place. What’s more, we’re only just getting started!
