January 29, 2020

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Small-scale engineering

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.

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