Restoration Hardware: Journey to the Cloud

Abstract: Journey to the Cloud
Restoration Hardware's multi-year journey from an on-prem monolithic eCommerce application to a self-service cloud platform, assembled and maintained internally that we simply call RHapsody.

Bios:
Dirk Butters - Director of Cloud Engineering
Successfully prepared Restoration Hardware and Staples (previously) for their global expansion by moving our most of their critical functionality into a multiple availability zones on a cloud platform in less than three years each time.

Bill Bauernschmidt - Senior Architect
Bill is a highly experienced hands-on architect that has been involved in all aspects of the creation of modern cloud service platforms. He has helped lead the cloud platform designs and implementations for multiple large scale legacy ecommerce migrations. Along the way, Bill has leveraged the rapid evolution of open source technologies, from the Netflix OSS stack, to the Kubernetes revolution, to the emergence of service mesh technologies to help build the most capable platform solutions possible. With deep roots in application and service development, Bill focuses on keeping a strong emphasis on developer usability and productivity to his cloud platform designs.

Tanner Barrett - Platform Engineer
Tanner recently transitioned from developing microservices to engineering RH's microservice platform. He is finding that a good platform will enable service development to function smoothly almost to the point where developers are unaware of the underlying platform itself. Tanner's latest projects include Infrastructure modularization and automation in an ongoing effort to keep the platform modern, while other tasks such as Jenkins scripting and kubernetes debugging have been useful in understanding the legacy nature that platforms are continually evolving on.