[seglo]

I'm glad you enjoyed the post, thanks.

In the beginning there wasn't an initiative to migrate away from .NET. Management encouraged us to try new technologies all time and the BeetleJuice spike seemed to me like a good opportunity to try something new given its simplistic requirements.

From an organizational perspective, there was some discord about how expensive our Microsoft infrastructure was and how poorly it scaled. I won't blame Microsoft for all our scaling problems, as a lot of it had to do with our legacy architecture, but licensing fees were a legitimate concern. Management didn't have any clearly defined goals to move away from Microsoft, but when we started using Scala, Mongo, and other open source projects they took the opportunity to make the case for more migration of our infrastructure. This new direction was officially announced as part of our CTO's Technical Strategy message to the dev department (included in my post).