Andy McQuarrie
back office systems to a cloud native platform built in house . It was an ambitious step . “ Late in 2016 we decided that we would embark on the journey to build next generation of public space media AdTech platform and run it on AWS .” Two years later , after a huge effort on the part of Andy McQuarrie and his team , the network had been re-architected , the most sophisticated Palo Alto firewalls put in place , and legacy back office systems migrated to a cloud native platform hosted in AWS .
Rather than a big bang migration , though , McQuarrie opted for the Strangler pattern documented by Martin Fowler , whereby the new systems are introduced around the edges of the old , progressively replacing them until the legacy systems are decommissioned . Doing it this way , he says , made for a smoother introduction and allowed his team to develop an intuitive user interface . “ We opted for the Strangler approach because it is very safe and it allows us to move methodically from
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Andy McQuarrie
Andy McQuarrie ’ s background is in Software Engineering , Operations and Technology consultancy . McQuarrie is responsible for Software Engineering , Data Science & Engineering and Technology Operations across the oOh ! media group . Primarily based in the UK for the majority of his career working with organisations like The Royal Bank of Scotland and Sky , McQuarrie has been involved in a number of industry leading disruptive digital products like SkyQ and NowTV , as well as web scale platforms that include Europe ’ s largest linear Over The Top ( OTT ) platform SkyGo . Before joining oOh ! media in 2017 as the Chief Technology Officer , McQuarrie was the Technical Principal at ThoughtWorks .
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