Scalability
Past Presentations
Scaling Slack
Slack is a communication and collaboration platform for teams. Our millions of users spend 10+ hrs connected to the service on a typical working day. They expect reliability, low latency, and extraordinarily rich client experiences across a wide variety of devices and network conditions. In the...
Scaling Marketplaces at Thumbtack
As Paul Graham writes, creating marketplaces is incredibly hard, and they take "heroic measures" to get rolling. From humble beginnings, Thumbtack today helps millions of customers complete their projects, generating more than $1B / year in business for our professionals. In this talk, I will...
With Great Scalability Comes Great Responsibility
This is a story of how I took down one of our vendor’s services with an innocent serverless application. I wanted to retrieve data from one of our monitoring platforms to analyze SPS Commerce’s software performance. Initially, I wrote a script to collect the data using python multiprocessing....
Scale @Reddit Triple Team Size w/o Losing Control
As of 2017, Reddit has 300 million monthly visitors, ranking #4 most visited website in US and #8 in the world. As you can guess, this kind of tremendous traffic takes some serious engineering efforts that have had to scale with the site's growing popularity. Join Nicholas Caldwell, VP of...
How Intuit Automates Root Cause Analysis at Scale
Intuit’s Small Business Group is responsible for one of the company’s flagship products, QuickBooks. As one of the biggest business units in the company, its main objective is to improve velocity and productivity for every engineer. Fast and feature rich release cycles are critical to...
A/B Testing at Scale with Open Source Proctor
Indeed has been conducting A/B tests for a decade on millions of job seekers around the world. Over the years, we learned a lot. Many of our practices are built into Proctor, our open source A/B testing framework. In this talk, I will cover requirements for A/B testing at scale, the architecture...
Interviews
Capacity Planning for Crypto Mania
What's the focus of the work that you do today?
Jordan: We’re on the Reliability Team at Coinbase. It was formed in response to the crazy spike of scaling challenges around 2017 with Cryptocurrency. The work is focused on traditional SRE topics of monitoring and instrumentation. We act as consultants for other mostly feature-focused teams. For example, we embed in teams to make...
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