We sit down for a Q&A with Dorothy Creaven, vice-president and managing director of Rent the Runway’s European base in Galway.
Putting the Closet in the Cloud, in the Cloud: How RTR Moved to Cloud Services
Historically, our tech stack ran in a traditionally hosted datacenter with a services architecture running on self-managed virtual machines. Fast forward 11 years, after building and proving out the business, to the beginning of the pandemic. We had to make a lot of long term business impacting decisions. One of those decisions for RTR was to focus on our tech stack and ensure it would continue to effectively power the business into the future.
In this post we’ll share the impact such growth spurts have had at Rent the Runway, how the Data org has tackled these challenges, and the impact our efforts have had.
Implementing and Rolling Out Crypto-Shredding for Data Encryption and Deletion
What did it mean to implement and roll out crypto-shredding at Rent the Runway, and what might it mean for you, if you are thinking about implementing it for your organization as well?
How to Buy the Runway at Rent the Runway
Most of the time, our customers return their rentals, but if they really love them, they can choose to purchase them. Now, customers can even elect to buy a secondhand piece at any point in their journey, even before it’s at home with them.
Adopting Inclusive Language in Tech at RTR
Rent the Runway Engineering is using a new open source tool called woke in our code review process to help ensure we are using inclusive language in all our code.