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Albertsons Companies
• We are one of the top grocery chains in the United States
• Made up of more than 2,200 stores, approximately 270,000 employees and millions of
customers who all want the same thing — good food, thriving communities and a healthy
planet.
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2020 - The new face of the world we all saw
• Challenges set on us by the global pandemic
• Essential services - grocery
• Meeting the increased demands
• Hire more delivery staff
• Pharmacy (6 million+ vaccinations)
• Continued focus on customers, connection with the community
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Drivers for Modernization
• Limited store hardware capacities
• Migrating and modernizing the legacy systems (Mainframe, stores systems,..)
• Networking between cloud and existing legacy systems
• Integration with on-premises systems
• On-premises Data Gravity
• Maintaining a check on the security
• Breaking the monolithic systems
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Key areas for modernization
• Infrastructure
- Leveraging scalability of the cloud platforms
- Container platform
- Scalability, elasticity of the cloud
• Applications
- Building modern applications to take advantage of cloud features
- Adopting microservices model
• Support
- Training the existing support, operations team on the hybrid cloud paradigm
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Technology Choices
• Application Architecture Patterns
- Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Reactive Spring
- Streaming using Kafka
• Adopting Modern Containerization Platforms
- Pivotal Cloud Foundry (now VMware Tanzu)
- Azure Kubernetes Services
• Microsoft Azure
- Provided a platform for our cloud elasticity needs for data, compute
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People and Process
• Leadership vision
• Albertsons today is not a typical retailer, we are aiming for being
technology first company
• Culture of Change