"To make all athletes better through passion, design, and the relentless pursuit of innovation," is Under Armour's stated mission. They have certainly delivered on the innovation promise in their products. Today, we will look at their innovation a few layers removed from your moisture-wicking socks or state-of-the-art Olympic speed skating suits.
Under Armour has several digital products, such as MyFitnessPal, under the umbrella of Under Armour Connected Fitness. It is here that Kyle Rockman (@Rocktavious) is an infrastructure engineer, coding infrastructure that supports the software engineers that develop the applications that you use to track protein shakes and Twinkie consumption. Kyle spoke at the 2017 AllDayDevOps conference about how he and his team are innovating. Specifically, their tool to compose and share hierarchical environment variable configuration to make updating hundreds of microservices easy. Yes, it is true. They were able to make it easy to share environment variables and make the updating process more transparent and easy.