Building Distributed Systems in Distributed Teams @ Infoshare 2020

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Building Distributed Systems in Distributed Teams Sebastian Grodzicki @ infoshare 2020 !@sebgrodzicki

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$ whoami Sebastian Grodzicki • Engineering Manager at • ex-CTO at SHOWROOM & GoldenLine • #LifeAtElastic !@sebgrodzicki

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Elastic Stack

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Cluster

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Stats … … … … employees countries languages time zones

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Stats ~2000 ~40 ~30 ~20 Elasticians countries languages time zones

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29 oﬃces

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DISTRIBUTED by design

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Founders

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DISTRIBUTED not remote

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Oﬃce

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Coworking space

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Home oﬃce

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Home oﬃce

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Home oﬃce

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Home oﬃce

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X-School X-School

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Engineering All Hands

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Global All Hands

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GAH 2020

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Our Source Code

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Team

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Leadership Team Lead Product Lead Tech Lead

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Meetings • weekly team planning • (bi-)weekly 1:1 with your manager • monthly product roadmap review • quarterly performance review with your manager • release retrospective (every 8-10 weeks)

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Demo day, Ask Me Anything, Company All Hands, etc.

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Release train Development QA Release Feature freeze QA Release Feature freeze QA Release Feature freeze Development Development Development

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. . Semantic Versioning 7 9 1 major minor patch

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Tools

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Tools

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Tools

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Tools

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Tools

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Who wants to work from an office?

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Who wants to work from home?

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Thank you!

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Questions?