Building Distributed Systems in Distributed Teams
A presentation at Devoxx Poland 2018 in in Kraków, Poland by Philipp Krenn
Who is working from HOME?
Who is working from a COWORKING SPACE?
Who is working from an OFFICE?
Who can work from home for 1 DAY / WEEK?
DEVELOPER !
CLUSTER
UNSTRUCTURED, DISTRIBUTED, DIVERSE
Q: https://sli.do/xeraa A: https://twitter.com/xeraa
~ 900 ELASTICIANS
Elasticats 4 Elastronauts 4 ELKompadres 4 Elastics 4 Elastigons 4 Elasticers 4 ElastiCoolians 4 Homo Elasticus 4 Elasticitizens 4 {elastician} 4 Elasticodians 4 The Elasticrew 4 Elasticons 4 Elastonians from Elastonia 4 Elastic Dudes / Elastic Dudettes
34+ COUNTRIES 30+ LANGUAGES 19+ TIME ZONES 16 OFFICES
Distributed By Design
DISTRIBUTED NOT REMOTE
X- SCHOOL
A LWAYS ON
(CROSS) TEAM TIME BUGPOOL, FIXITFRIDAY, OFFICE HOURS,...
RELEASE PARTY
PROCESS PER TEAM
ENGINEERING ALL HANDS SALES KICKOFF
Values
ELASTICSEARCH TEAM DEVELOPMENT CONSTITUTION https://github.com/elastic/engineering/blob/master/development_constitution.md
TECH PROGRESS OVER PERFECTION
TECH DESIGN FOR TODAY ! USE ABSTRACTIONS WITH CARE
TECH BUILD FEATURES IN ISOLATION
TECH REMOVE FIRST , FIX LATER
TECH ONLY ACCEPT FEATURES THAT SCALE
TECH BE FAST BY DEFAULT ; SLOW IS OPTIONAL
PEOPLE BE KIND
PEOPLE EMPATHY FOR PASSION
PEOPLE REPORT ABUSIVE COMMENTS
Source Code HTTPS://WWW.ELASTIC.CO/ABOUT/OUR-SOURCE-CODE
Whatever you’re hustling for, take note: most people/companies are shut down until ‘18. That means you get 2 extra w ! ks to outwork your competition.
That’s 3.8% more time. For perspective: Usain Bolt won his gold medals ru ! ing 1.2% faster. These 2 w " ks are a gift. Get to work. — https://twitter.com/NathanCHubbard/status/ 942882853494202369
If I read this madne ! I want a " my engin
rs to take 2 extra w
ks o $ to make sure we are 6% behind but healthy! That would be a ma ! ive win! — https://twitter.com/s1m0nw/status/943021874086383616
Elastic wi ! be providing 16 w " ks of 100% paid parental leave during the first year fo ! owing the birth or adoption of a child — whether you are a mom or a dad
MY EXPERIENCE
ELASTICIANS ARE TRUSTED
DO THE RIGHT THING
YOU VOLUNTEER
SOMETIMES YOU ARE VOLUNTOLD
COMMUNICATION IS OPEN & PUBLIC
NEW PRODUCTS JOIN THE FAMILY
Downsides
SHARE THE PAIN OF TIMEZONES
COMMUNICATION CAN FAIL
CULTURES ARE DIFFERENT
DECISIONS CAN DRAG
Day
CRAZY
FLEXIBLE
TRADITIONAL
T ! ls
SYNC
ASYNC
TEAM & TECH LEAD
PM PART OF ENGINEERING
Hiring
OH: It's not "hard" ski ! s vs "soft" ski ! s
- its "technical" vs "profe " ional" ski ! s. — https://twitter.com/freakboy3742/status/907032201497255942
AGE, GENDER, LOCATION, RACE,... IS JUST AN ATTRIBUTE
1,000+ CV PER WEEK
NO BULLSHIT INTERVIEWS
500 TO 600: 5M 600 TO 700: 3M 700 TO 800: 2M
Numbers
INDICATOR ARRIVALS: 130 DEPARTURES: 9
Conclusion
Vianney Chevalier, https://twitter.com/vianneytwins/status/997125952835653633
Vianney Chevalier, https://twitter.com/vianneytwins/status/997125952835653633
Who wants to work from AN OFFICE?
Who wants to work from HOME?
NO GOING BACK
https://www.elastic.co/about/careers
QUESTIONS? Philipp Kre ! 44444 @xer "
At Elastic — the company behind the open source tools Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash — everything is distributed; both the company and all our products. Building distributed systems is notoriously hard ... building a distributed team even more so. This talk dives into the details how Elastic is thriving on its distributed model:
- How Elastic started to be distributed by design.
- What our shared values are and what we have learned as we progressed and grew to our current size.
- How a day of an Elastician can look like.
- What we are using in terms of tooling.
- How we hire and onboard new employees.
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