Building Distributed Systems in Distributed Teams @ 4Developers 2020

Building distributed systems is notoriously hard... building a distributed team, even more so. At Elastic — the company behind Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash — everything is distributed; the company and our products. This talk dives into the details of 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.
- What the day of an Elastician can look like.
- What we are using in terms of tooling.
- How we hire and onboard new employees.

Transcript

1. Building Distributed Systems in Distributed Teams Sebastian Grodzicki @ 4Developers 2020 !@sebgrodzicki
2. $ whoami Sebastian Grodzicki • Engineering Manager at • ex-CTO at SHOWROOM & GoldenLine • #LifeAtElastic !@sebgrodzicki
3. Elastic Stack
4. Stats ~2000 ~40 ~20 employees countries time zones
5. 29 offices
6. DISTRIBUTED by design
7. Founders
8. DISTRIBUTED not remote
9. Office
10. Coworking space
11. Home office
12. Home office
13. Home office
14. Home office
15. X-School X-School
16. Engineering All Hands
17. Global All Hands
18. GAH 2020
19. Process
20. Meetings • weekly team planning • (bi-)weekly 1:1 with your manager • quarterly performance review with your manager • release retrospective (every 8-10 weeks)
21. Demo day, Ask Me Anything, Company All Hands, etc.
22. Release train Development QA Release Feature freeze QA Release Feature freeze QA Release Feature freeze Development Development Development
23. . . Semantic Versioning 7 9 1 major minor patch
24. Tools
25. Tools
26. Tools
27. Tools
28. Tools
29. Thank you!
30. Questions?