Scale it to a billion: How to build it, keep it safe, and keep it running

Pete Cheslock shares the operational and security practices that helped Threat Stack scale while staying stable and secure, covering technology and tools and the various scale points that forced hard decisions.

Over the past three years, Threat Stack has been working on building a scalable distributed system to manage a continually growing corpus of customers’ critical data. Like many growing companies, Threat Stack has limited time, money, and resources, but that doesn’t offer an excuse to skimp on things such as high availability and security. Pete Cheslock shares the operational and security practices that helped Threat Stack scale while staying stable and secure, covering technology and tools and the various scale points that forced hard decisions. Along the way, Pete also explores approaching security not as a dedicated team but as culture that everyone owns. Topics include: