A Chronicle of Digital Transformation : From Kitchen Chaos to Kubernetes
summary
Starts from paper, pens and 250 dispersed operations and builds a cloud‑native platform that actually ships: Python + Django backend, Docker and Kubernetes deployment, BigQuery warehousing, Looker Studio dashboards, AppScript and OCR for ragged suppliers, and a background job system (Redis/RQ style). A bespoke T‑Rex transaction reconciler turns a two‑week manual statement check into seconds, processes 220,000 invoices scale, and raises supplier integration from 23% to ~85% by volume, proving the approach works.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:52Missing delivery in canteen
- 3:00Business complexity overview
- 5:34Manual accounting 2018
- 7:40Failed Unicorn project aftermath
- 9:27Printer chaos reduction
- 10:37Pandemic accelerating digital
- 11:20Delivery and payment crisis
- 13:26Supplier invoice challenges
- 15:34Paper to digital workflows
- 16:58Centralized data flow
- 18:44Automating supplier data
- 19:30AP manual reconciliation pain
- 21:58T-Rex reconciliation system
- 24:29Live demo T-Rex tool
- 26:19Key takeaways
- 27:43Overcoming resistance to change
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