Image Migration to Google Cloud Platform

Any type of software project can be difficult especially when it’s a massive migration project. We were able to move all our image infrastructure from multiple environments to GCP in one and a half years.

Background

At trivago, we handle millions of images daily for our hotel search platform. Our image infrastructure was spread across multiple environments and cloud providers.

The Challenge

The migration wasn’t just about moving files from one place to another. We had to consider:

Technical Challenges

• Scale: Petabytes of image data across multiple regions
• Availability: Zero downtime during migration
• Performance: Maintaining or improving image load times

Summary

The most important thing we learned is to plan properly and try our best to stick to it. If we fail to plan, we plan to fail.