Infrastructure Kata and Moving a Large Enterprise to the Cloud

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Presented at SREcon 2015 by

Tomas Doran

Up until a few years ago, Yelp had a traditional datacenter-based, bare-metal infrastructure for the production web site. The flexibility and dynamic nature of cloud storage and data processing environments was our first introduction to the cloud, and was soon heavily adopted internally. As the company continued to expand, both in its home (U.S.-based) territory, and internationally, scaling infrastructure in traditional data centers became expensive and constraining.