#scaling

Fate Games at Town-Hall Scale: The Grand Prix

“What started as a snarky wheel-spinner for one team's standup ended up on a company VM, then in three different teams' rotations, then on the VP's monitor at an all-hands with 200 people in the room. The wheel maxes out around 12. The Race Game I'd built as a joke turned into a heat-tournament — Grand Prix — that scales to whatever the room is. Today I'm putting it on the projects page and open-sourcing it.”

Docker + Servless = FaaS (Functions As A Service)

“So what Is Faas? FaaS is a framework for building serverless functions on Docker Swarm with first class support for metrics. Any UNIX process can be packaged as a function enabling you to…”

How Instagram scales — what I learned from Mike Krieger's deck

“Most architecture failures I've seen weren't because the team picked the wrong tool. They were because the team picked the *exciting* tool when boring would have worked.”

What I stole from Netflix's Kafka data pipeline deck

“You don't need Netflix's scale to use Netflix's architecture. You just need to want the same things Netflix wanted: decoupling, replay, and one source of truth.”