From Zero to Prod in 2 Months with a Team of One.

In this talk, Maria Rojas, platform engineer at Pento, will share why this automated payroll company needed a service mesh that gets the job done without adding complexity (their small team just couldn't afford to throw a lot of resources at the problem). When the engineering team was tasked with breaking up a monolith, they got one specific request: provide platform-related features (e.g., security, observability, and reliability) at the infrastructure level and avoid implementation at the application layer.