Inside Elastic Engineering

Get insights and ask questions about the ever-evolving journey of Elastic engineering. This talk will cover what changed as we grew from 15 to 150+, how we operate as a global distributed team and communicate effectively, as well as what guides us in developing the software you know and (hopefully) love.

Transcript

1. 1 Kevin Kluge VP Engineering @kevinkluge Inside Elastic Engineering
2. 2 What do we believe?
3. 3 Engineers are Adults
4. 4 Engineers are Leaders
5. 5 Engineers are Evangelists
6. 6 Engineers are Support Engineers X
7. 7 Engineers Have Families
8. 8 Engineers Have Passions
9. 9 Engineers Ask Why
10. 10 Engineers Live Everywhere
11. 11 Where did this lead us?
12. 12 We Are Everywhere
13. 13 We Were Able to Grow Rapidly
14. 14 We Are An Experienced Team
15. 15 How does this distributed thing work?
16. 16 Engineers are Adults
17. 17 Tools We Use
18. 18 Distributed from Day One 1
19. 19 Engineering All Hands
20. 20 Release evolution
21. 21 Everyone For Themselves!
22. 22 Elasticsearch + Plugins Others
23. 23 Sync All Releases
24. 24 Train Model
25. 25 Testing evolution
26. 26 Testing Evolution Automated Unit Tests Single Jenkins Master Multiple Jenkins Masters Puppet Slaves Results Into ES; Kibana Dashboards Ansible Slaves Automated Integration Tests Randomized JDK,OS Back-compat Pen Tests Perf Tests Manual Integration Tests
27. 27 Tracking Builds With Elasticsearch + Kibana
28. 28 Tracking Builds With Elasticsearch + Kibana
29. 29 Meeting evolution
30. 30 Meeting Evolution Demos have been a consistent theme Daily Standups Collapse 25 70 140 Table Groups Collapse Product and Project Teams (Still Going)
31. 31 Fix-it Friday
32. 32 Support evolution
33. 33 Support Evolution ‘12 ‘14 ‘15 ‘16 First Customer PagerDuty First Dedicated Support Engineer Support Takes 50% of Cases Formal Escalations ‘13 Support Takes 95% of Cases
34. 34 Chart showing Kibana of builds
35. 35 35 Thanks from all of us! jobs@elastic.co @kevinkluge
36. 36 36 Team Leads Tech Leads
37. 37 Please attribute Elastic with a link to elastic.co Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/ Creative Commons and the double C in a circle are registered trademarks of Creative Commons in the United States and other countries. Third party marks and brands are the property of their respective holders.