The Devops Journey that Transformed REA

Abstract:

REA group, which runs between others realestate.com.au, casa.it and athome.lu websites focused on realestate advertising in different countries, has been involved in an interesting transformation process following the Devops principles in the last years that has changed completely the way we face operations.

From completed isolated worlds, delivery and operations, to a much more efficient approach which continues to evolve every day in this talk we will cover some of the key elements for this transformation including cultural and technical aspects that helped us during the journey and which ones made it hard.

Speaker:

Javier Turegano is working as infrastructure manager in REA Group in Australia where he manages the Infrastructure Platform team and has been involved in the transformation of the company's operations in the last year. Previously helped to create an architecture team and leaded infrastructure projects in Andago, Spanish open source company focused on public administration and leaded the sysadmin team in an emerging ISP in his home city.

His passions are open source, web operations, devops and IT management and keeps himself active in the communities associated with those topics (Madrid Devops, Melbourne's Infrastructure Coders and founded the Linux Albacete LUG during my university period)