Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …

Why we released the kraken

Avatar for Cristiano Betta Cristiano Betta
October 01, 2014
Technology
0
55

Why we released the kraken

My talk at Devoxx UK 2014

Avatar for Cristiano Betta

Cristiano Betta

October 01, 2014
Tweet

More Decks by Cristiano Betta

See All by Cristiano Betta
Docs as Engineering - DevRelCon London 2019
Avatar for Cristiano Betta cbetta
0
160
DevRelCon London 2019 - Developer Experience Workshop
Avatar for Cristiano Betta cbetta
0
140
DevRelCon London 2019 - Developer Experience Workshop
Avatar for Cristiano Betta cbetta
0
340
The 7 Deadly Sins of Developer Experience (DevRelCon Tokyo)
Avatar for Cristiano Betta cbetta
0
4.1k
The State of Encryption
Avatar for Cristiano Betta cbetta
0
380
Developer Experience Workshop
Avatar for Cristiano Betta cbetta
1
600
The 7 Deadly Sins of Developer Onboarding
Avatar for Cristiano Betta cbetta
0
190
A brick by brick guide to developer experience
Avatar for Cristiano Betta cbetta
2
650
Hackathons Workshop
Avatar for Cristiano Betta cbetta
0
310

Other Decks in Technology

See All in Technology
webpack依存からの脱却！快適フロントエンド開発をViteで実現する #vuefes
Avatar for 弁護士ドットコム bengo4com
4
3.4k
あなたの知らない Linuxカーネル脆弱性の世界
Avatar for Recruit recruitengineers
PRO
3
160
[VPoE Global Summit] サービスレベル目標による信頼性への投資最適化
Avatar for sato-s satos
0
250
Behind Postgres 18: The People, the Code, & the Invisible Work | Claire Giordano | PGConfEU 2025
Avatar for Claire Giordano clairegiordano
0
140
OpenTelemetry が拡げる Gemini CLI の可観測性
Avatar for Tomonori Hayashi phaya72
2
2.3k
Azure Well-Architected Framework入門
Avatar for tomokusaba tomokusaba
1
130
AIエージェントによる業務効率化への飽くなき挑戦 -AWS上の実開発事例から学んだ効果、現実そしてギャップ-
Avatar for Kiminori Yokoi nasuvitz
5
1.2k
ラスベガスの歩き方 2025年版（re:Invent 事前勉強会）
Avatar for JunjiKoide junjikoide
0
180
生成AI時代のPythonセキュリティとガバナンス
Avatar for abenben abenben
0
140
AI時代、“平均値”ではいられない
Avatar for uhyo uhyo
8
2.6k
re:Inventに行くまでにやっておきたいこと
Avatar for nagisa_53 nagisa53
0
270
アウトプットから始めるOSSコントリビューション 〜eslint-plugin-vueの場合〜 #vuefes
Avatar for 弁護士ドットコム bengo4com
3
1.8k

Featured

See All Featured
Balancing Empowerment & Direction
Avatar for Lara Hogan lara
5
700
Writing Fast Ruby
Avatar for Erik Berlin sferik
630
62k
ReactJS: Keep Simple. Everything can be a component!
Avatar for Pedro Nauck pedronauck
667
130k
Automating Front-end Workflow
Avatar for Addy Osmani addyosmani
1371
200k
Java REST API Framework Comparison - PWX 2021
Avatar for Matt Raible mraible
34
8.9k
Performance Is Good for Brains [We Love Speed 2024]
Avatar for Tammy Everts tammyeverts
12
1.2k
The Art of Delivering Value - GDevCon NA Keynote
Avatar for David Neal reverentgeek
16
1.7k
A designer walks into a library…
Avatar for Paul Jervis Heath pauljervisheath
209
24k
Why You Should Never Use an ORM
Avatar for John Nunemaker jnunemaker
PRO
59
9.6k
GraphQLの誤解/rethinking-graphql
Avatar for sonatard sonatard
73
11k
The Pragmatic Product Professional
Avatar for Laura Van Doore lauravandoore
36
7k
Rebuilding a faster, lazier Slack
Avatar for samanthasiow samanthasiow
84
9.2k

Transcript

  1. Why we released the Kraken Cristiano Betta PayPal

  2. None
  3. None
  4. None

  5. A story of technical debt

  6. None

  7. C++ Java

  8. Production Prototype

  9. None
  10. None

  11. BYOF!!!! Build your own framework!!!

  12. None
  13. None
  14. None

  15. Jeff Harrell! @juxtajeff Bill Scott! @billwscott

  16. None

  17. C++! XML Java! JSP

  18. C++! XML Java! JSP NodeJS! JS

  19. None

  20. C++ Java Node Dust

  21. C++ Java Node Dust

  22. PPaaS! PayPal as a Service

  23. Moved away from good old java

  24. Changing the way we work • CSS, HTML and even

    JS in Java • Later replaced by JSP for templating • Open Source Stack • Bootstrap for frontend • JavaScript templating via Dust • Project Delorean: V8 in PayPal’s C++ stack • Rhino: JS for PayPal’s Java stack
  25. None
  26. None

  27. Lusca Kappa Adaro Makara

  28. Results • Team sizes decreased • Doubled requests per second

    • 35% decrease in average response time • Lines of code shrunk by factor 3 to 5 • Increased development pace • Full stack JS investment

  29. Thank you! for not killing me @cbetta