Platform Engineering meet-up - Nov 8

Description

In early 2024, Razorpay’s deployments lived peacefully in a single region - Mumbai. Life was simple until expansion to Singapore began. Suddenly, our “mostly standardized” Spinnaker pipelines - each with its own flavor of pre-checks, canary analysis, and secret sauce - turned into a spaghetti mess across 150+ pipelines (that too with only a subset of services). Manual edits, mislinked pipelines, and a checkout page outage later, we realized: leaving even a 0.6% chance of error in production is still too much chaos for comfort.

This talk is about how we turned that chaos into order by building standardized, policy-enforced, and template-driven Spinnaker pipelines. We’ll walk through how we codified deployment safety via Pipeline-Templates, built custom stages for Helm releases and multi-stage canaries, and implemented regional isolation with distributed Spinnakers. Along the way, we’ll share our lessons from migrating three regions (Mumbai → Singapore → US), introducing MCP (Prompt → Pipeline) tooling for self-serve adoption, and how this foundational work unlocked larger initiatives like Cell Automation and cross-region deployment safety. Think of it as infrastructure evolution told through the lens of ‘Ramayana for Pipelines’ - where chaos had to cross the ocean to reach production safely.

Takeaways

1. Blueprint for Multi-Region Deployment Safety: Learn how to evolve from ad-hoc pipelines to policy-enforced, reusable templates that scale across geographies.
2. Balancing Innovation and Control: See how to enable safe experimentation (like Mirror Analysis) without letting chaos slip through production.

Who Should Attend

This session will resonate with DevOps engineers, SREs, platform teams, and infra architects who deal with multi-region deployments, Spinnaker at scale, or the “joys” of pipeline drift. If you’ve ever lost sleep over a mislinked pipeline - or want to prevent it before it happens - this one’s for you.

Speaker Bio

Nanda Kishore is a Software Engineer at Razorpay, working on large-scale deployment infrastructure and release safety across global regions. He has led Razorpay’s transition from single-region to multi-region deployments, building the foundations for Cell-based architecture and standardized release tooling. When not refactoring pipelines or debugging canary rollouts, he enjoys “vibe-coding” small visual tools to make his life easier - and occasionally, to keep chaos at bay.