10 DevOps Adoption @ La Redoute 750+m€ sales European Market 73% Internal Design 99% Notoriety in France Top 10 Visited in France 7m unique visitor/m 96+% Sales on Digital Channel 50%+ mobile Most Automated Warehouse Europe 50 Stores & Corners Galeries Lafayette Shareholder at 51% Key Figures
DevOps Adoption @ La Redoute 12 La Redoute created the Distance Selling Concept, supported by first Mainframe technologies Key Driver VAD Market Share ASAP France Big Selling Machine International Startups Mode
15 DevOps Adoption @ La Redoute Web apparition, as a necessary change for growth opportunities Websites Launch .fr New York Offices Redcats Platform .com(s) Group Platform Startup Platform
DevOps Adoption @ La Redoute 17 First Warning Signs and the need to adapt France 1 year IT Project to deliver 24 hours delivery First Investment in Web Testing ESB for emerging Distributed Architecture International Decreasing margins, competition, 3-12 months releases Harmonisation to same web platform Continuous Integration with migration to Portugal IT System
DevOps Adoption @ La Redoute 20 Transformation Imperatives E-commerce player 60% to >90% online X10 faster collection cycle-time 2 => 20 catalogs/year Operational Excellence 1.5 day to 2 hours order processing Develop and scale new business models Home, MKP, ideas
DevOps Adoption @ La Redoute 21 Transformation Imperatives E-commerce player 60% to >90% online X10 faster collection cycle-time 2 => 20 catalogs/year Operational Excellence 1.5 day to 2 hours order processing Develop and scale new business models Home, MKP, ideas Accelerate Web Delivery & Performance Architecture to be faster and more flexible Architecture to be faster and more flexible Architecture to be faster and more flexible
22 DevOps Adoption @ La Redoute < 2000 VAD 2000 Web 2013-2017 e-commerce La Redoute exits PPR 4 years to transform Web Delivery Web Performance Architecture
Our Web Delivery was slow down mainly on the Testing Phase DevOps Adoption @ La Redoute 25 Req. Design Code QA UAT Deploy Run Slow UAT Manual Test Changes accumulation Branches Merges Technical Test Big & Risky releases Other accidental complexity Inconsistent environment Highly complex codebase Indirect bugs …
Our Web Delivery was slow down mainly on the Testing Phase DevOps Adoption @ La Redoute 26 Smaller & Faster Releases Req. Design Code QA UAT Deploy Run Slow UAT Manual Test Changes accumulation Branches Merges Technical Test Big & Risky releases Functional Test Automation Trunk-Based Development Features Flags, A/B Testing Incremental Features & Specs Other accidental complexity Inconsistent environment Highly complex codebase Indirect bugs …
The delivery process was changed to delivery every day incremental value DevOps Adoption @ La Redoute 27 Req. Design Code QA UAT Deploy Run Functional Test Automation Trunk-Based Development Features Flags, A/B Testing Incremental Features & Specs Shift-left
The delivery process was changed to delivery every day incremental value DevOps Adoption @ La Redoute 28 Req. Design Code QA UAT Deploy Run Scope until 11 am UAT in 2 hours Daily Deploy Functional Test Automation Trunk-Based Development Features Flags, A/B Testing Incremental Features & Specs Shift-left
The delivery process was changed to delivery every day incremental value DevOps Adoption @ La Redoute 29 Req. Design Code QA UAT Deploy Run Scope until 11 am UAT in 2 hours Daily Deploy UX Monitoring A/B Testing Features Flag Hotfix – plan B Functional Test Automation Trunk-Based Development Features Flags, A/B Testing Incremental Features & Specs Functional Test Automation Functional Test Automation Shift-left
The delivery process was changed to delivery every day incremental value DevOps Adoption @ La Redoute 30 180 2000 2900 4500 5500 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Automated Test Suite Req. Design Code QA UAT Deploy Run Scope until 11 am UAT in 2 hours Daily Deploy UX Monitoring A/B Testing Features Flag Hotfix – plan B Functional Test Automation Trunk-Based Development Features Flags, A/B Testing Incremental Features & Specs Functional Test Automation Functional Test Automation Shift-left 96% successful production deploy on business days
Our Test Strategy relies on End-to-End Functional Testing as a priority 31 Functional Testing • End-to-End • Component Integration Testing Unit Testing La Redoute Test Pyramid Manual Books DevOps Adoption @ La Redoute
34 DevOps Adoption @ La Redoute < 2000 VAD 2000 Web 2013-2017 e-commerce La Redoute exits PPR 4 years to transform Web Delivery Web Performance Architecture
38 DevOps Adoption @ La Redoute < 2000 VAD 2000 Web 2013-2017 e-commerce La Redoute exits PPR 4 years to transform Web Delivery Web Performance Architecture
Legacy reduction as a major stake in liberating investments and work parallelisation DevOps Adoption @ La Redoute 39 Monolith Mainframe Web Platform ESB Platform Mainframe Customers Events Marketplace Offers PIM OMS TMS WMS Promotions Payment CRM DFO ESB Platform Web Platform Legacy VAD New’R Transformation Platform Internal Dev Integrated Software
Legacy reduction as a major stake in liberating investments and work parallelisation DevOps Adoption @ La Redoute 40 Mainframe Customers Events Marketplace Offers PIM OMS TMS WMS Promotions Payment CRM DFO ESB Platform Web Platform New’R Transformation Platform Internal Dev Integrated Software Web Organisational focus o Complex back transformation Back leveraged CI stack and competencies o 450+ pipelines o Heterogeneity, Not as Code Unstable organisational period (3500 to 1500 FTEs) Balanced DevOps Period
Lessons Learned Generic, but do it : take risks for what’s right Set ambitious objectives to leverage your constraints Invest in Design & Problem Solving DevOps Adoption @ La Redoute 41
44 A first step was to concentrate teams and clarify major interactions DevOps Adoption @ La Redoute Web Study Web Dev Back Study Back Portugal ESB France Back Spain Back Poland Ops Arch Ops PT DBA Web Initial diluted organisation Take ownership and concentrate
45 A first step was to concentrate teams and clarify major interactions DevOps Adoption @ La Redoute Web Study Web Dev Back Study Back Portugal ESB France Back Spain Back Poland Ops Arch Ops PT DBA Web Cross-Functional Teams Take ownership and concentrate Web Study/UX Web Dev Web Ops Client Finance Marketing Publication Product Logistic Ops Arch Ops Delivery - Portugal Initial diluted organisation To a first aligned model
46 A first step was to concentrate teams and clarify major interactions DevOps Adoption @ La Redoute Web Study Web Dev Back Study Back Portugal ESB France Back Spain Back Poland Ops Arch Ops PT DBA Web Cross-Functional Teams Take ownership and concentrate Web Study/UX Web Dev Web Ops Client Finance Marketing Publication Product Logistic Ops Arch Ops Delivery - Portugal Initial diluted organisation To a first aligned model Study Dev Study Dev Study Dev Study Dev Study Dev Study Dev
47 More Agile and DevOps models emerged Client Finance Marketing Publication Product Logistic Platform Team Post-Checkout Search & Product Order Experience & Account HD N1/2 Apps Supervision Observability Quality ESB Web Platform & Performance DBA Infra Secu AS400 MF Front Back Platform Stream aligned Platform Team Subsystem Enabling SDM DevOps
49 Move to the same floor and organisational flow Floor 1 - Dev Floor 0 - Ops Floor 1 – Dev & Ops Stream aligned Stream aligned Stream aligned Stream aligned Stream aligned Platform DBA HD AS400/MF Supervision Observability Quality / Web Infra Office layout DevOps Adoption @ La Redoute Secu Flow of Work
50 Internal Communities for sharing, best-practices in network Tech Talks Dev Community Quality Hub Observability Group Event-driven Microservices, Kafka & K8S Ivory Towers Architects DevOps Adoption @ La Redoute Dev environment Infra libraries Metrics guidelines
56 Gradual Adoption of Cloud-Native Platform 56 Mainframe Customers Events Marketplace Offers PIM OMS TMS WMS Promotions Payment CRM DFO ESB Platform Web Platform La Redoute Platform CI/CD On-Premise CI/CD Cloud-Native Web to Cloud Back MS Data MS Replatform Mainframe
57 Gradual Adoption of Cloud-Native Platform 57 Mainframe Customers Events Marketplace Offers PIM OMS TMS WMS Promotions Payment CRM DFO ESB Platform Web Platform La Redoute Platform CI/CD On-Premise CI/CD Cloud-Native Micro-Front-End Web to Cloud Back MS Data MS Replatform Mainframe … Promotions