Small-scale engineering
Effie Mouzeli explains why small-scale engineering is just as challenging as large-scale engineering and offers ideas on how to survive technical debt, poor communication, and other everyday challenges.
| Talk Title | Small-scale engineering |
| Speakers | effie mouzeli (Wikimedia Foundation) |
| Conference | O’Reilly Velocity Conference |
| Conf Tag | Building and maintaining complex distributed systems |
| Location | New York, New York |
| Date | October 1-3, 2018 |
| URL | Talk Page |
| Slides | Talk Slides |
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Scaling to hundreds of hosts and serving thousands of requests per second is interesting and hard. But what about when everything is smaller? How can a tiny team—or even one systems person working alone—make sure small but vital systems stay reliable? Are SRE practices still relevant? Effie Mouzeli explains why small-scale engineering is just as challenging as large-scale engineering and offers ideas on how to survive technical debt, poor communication, and other everyday challenges.
