CTO at e-commerce. Operating full-chain of e-commerce from customer to supplier, including backends for planning, support, marketing, operation etc. Thousands of orders daily, millions of visitors on webfront.
Not a single container. Don't see any possible use or benefits of it whatsoever. It's trendy, cool, but if you just want to get things done, avoid mess in your infrastructure and avoid accumulation of tech debt it's probably not the tool to go with.
It's quite diverse given few M&A along the way. To put it simply, a number of VMs scattered across different providers, hosting services. Services range from load balancers (haproxy), frontend/backend endpoint servers (nginx, varnish), code (PHP, RoR, etc),CDN (nginx), database (MariaDB, PostgreSQL), ELK... Icinga for monitoring everything, Grafana to see trends and big picture. Tableau, Dataiku for BA.
Not a single container. Don't see any possible use or benefits of it whatsoever. It's trendy, cool, but if you just want to get things done, avoid mess in your infrastructure and avoid accumulation of tech debt it's probably not the tool to go with.