The document discusses Holiday Extras' reasons for moving to the cloud: 1) Cost savings - Moving to AWS cloud infrastructure reduced hosting costs from £500,000 to £120,000 annually. 2) Agility - The cloud allows for faster development and time to market for new features compared to traditional hosting. 3) Insight - Cloud services enable Holiday Extras to capture and analyze customer data to innovate and improve products. The key principles for their cloud journey were to take a strategic approach by evaluating options like AWS vs Rackspace, and maintaining an openness to change as cloud technologies advanced.

1. The cloud @HolidayExtras

2. @nilanp
Nilan Peiris
CMTO
Disruptive tehcnolognogyst
Chief Marketing
@nilanp #OvumBigData
Technology Officer

3. £200m

4. £200m

5. 30 year old
start up

6. We believe
holidays should be hassle-free.

7. 32m Trips

8. Our role in the holiday value chain.
Parking Insurance Books
the most efficient
way of Hotels FX Car Hire
Customer monetising trips on
the internet.
Lounges Ski Hire Essentials

9. A holiday engine.
A platform

10. Median Saving Revenue Fulfil
of 20% Optimisation Demand
Quality
Market
Share
Customer Supplier
We’re here Hassle-Free Hassle-Free Optimise
when things Distribution Supply
go wrong.

11. Our
technology
strategy

12. Technology
strategy
“Every line of code we write
makes a difference for our
customers”
“Minimise fixed costs”
“Invest in agility”

13. Why did we
move to the
cloud ?

14. 1. Cost
2. Agility
3. Insight

15. 1. Cost

16. £500,000

18. £500,000

19. £120,000

20. £120,000

21. £60,000

22. 2. Agility

23. The role of the
CTO

24. Uptime, cost,
risk

25. Agility, time
to market,
customer

26. DevOps Chi

27. Time to scale DevOps overhead
Time to market
Cost
DevOps Chi

28. RUNNING
LEAN

29. 3. Insight

30. Capture Slice
data data
Launch Innovate

31. 1. Speed

32. Why
speed ?

33. “every 100 ms (that’s 1
tenth of a second)
increase in page load
time of Amazon.com
decreased sales by 1%”

34. Subsecond searches
within 12 months
Text

37. 1. Cost
2. Agility
3. Insight

38. Principles for
the journey

39. 1. Be strategic
2. Be open to
change

40. 1. Be strategic

41. AWS Vs Rackspace

42. AWS Rackspace
Scale Enterprise sales
Price Migration support
Technology
Open architecture
Risk and cost
management

43. Market
size
1/(cost to enter
market)

44. Market
size
Storage
1/(cost to enter
market)

45. Market
size
Instance
Storage
1/(cost to enter
market)

46. Market
size Product
Database Network
Instance
Storage
1/(cost to enter
market)

47. Services
Orchestration
Network
Data pipelines
Manage IOPS

48. Build footprint
and accelerate
commoditisation

49. 2. Be open to
change

50. 5 reasons
We ♥

51. $ git push heroku master

52. -----> Heroku receiving push
-----> Ruby/Rails app detected
-----> Installing dependencies using Bundler version 1.1.rc.7
Running: bundle install --without development:test --path vendor/bundle --binstubs bin/ --
deployment
Using rake (0.9.2)
Using multi_json (1.0.4)
Using activesupport (3.1.0)
Using bcrypt-ruby (3.0.0)
Using builder (3.0.0)
Using uglifier (1.0.1)
Your bundle is complete! It was installed into ./vendor/bundle
Cleaning up the bundler cache.
-----> Writing config/database.yml to read from DATABASE_URL
-----> Preparing app for Rails asset pipeline
Running: rake assets:precompile
Couldn't load rspec tasks in /tmp/build_175x8jxx78imy/lib/tasks/rspec.rake
-----> Rails plugin injection
Injecting rails_log_stdout
Injecting rails3_serve_static_assets
-----> Discovering process types
Procfile declares types -> testresque, web, worker
Default types for Ruby/Rails -> console, rake
-----> Compiled slug size is 36.9MB
-----> Launching... done, v122
-----> Deploy hooks scheduled, check output in your logs
http://tripapplite.herokuapp.com
deployed to Heroku

53. Polyglot
platform

56. Drag to
scale

57. ✦recap
Data Recap...
science

58. Our reasons for moving
to the cloud
@nilanp #OvumBigData

59. 1. Cost
2. Agility
3. Insight
@nilanp #OvumBigData

60. Principles for the
journey
@nilanp #OvumBigData

61. 1. Be strategic
2. Be open to change
@nilanp #OvumBigData

62. Holiday
Extras
@nilanp