What is involved in scaling up large, popular products at places like Slack and GitHub?…
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What is involved in scaling up large, popular products at places like Slack and GitHub? We get an insider’s view on this from Maude Lemaire (@qcmaude), a principal engineer and author of ‘Refactoring at Scale.’ Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 03:15 Early years and path to software engineering 07:32 First job at Rent the Runway 09:17 The HipChat data leak 10:54 Joining Slack and the challenges of scaling 26:30 Load testing and thundering herds 32:29 Event floods 38:30 Evolving load testing at Slack 48:38 Joining GitHub in 2024 56:52 The challenges of the Rails monolith 1:02:26 How Maude uses AI 1:12:4
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