Zeiss supports over 6,000 developers across diverse sectors like medical technology and semiconductor manufacturing, creating unique challenges.
Key development challenges include fragmentation of tools and processes, defining ownership, and balancing generalization with specialization.
The company's strategy involves creating a "factory platform" to streamline development and a developer portal to solve discovery issues.
Fleet management enables self-service, lifecycle tracking, and scalable decision-making through tools like ADRs and Wardley Maps.
The Zeiss Developer Portal, built on Backstage, provides a single pane of glass for documentation, tech radars, and self-service interfaces.
Instead of a single platform, Zeiss builds specialized platforms for GenAI, data analytics, and a web application platform with a MACH architecture.
The web platform uses Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for a multi-tenant, multi-region foundation and is managed as an internal product.
Developers created React-based micro-frontends that non-technical authors can easily embed into the Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) website.
A dedicated software migration toolbox automates updates, such as migrating a UX library across 70% of projects in just three weeks.
ZEISS Group
Oberkochen, Germany
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