Building Distributed Systems In Distributed Teams – Philipp Krenn

At Elastic — the company behind the open source tools Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash — everything is distributed; the company and our products. Building distributed systems is notoriously hard … building a distributed team, even more so. 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 Philipp Krenn̴̴̴̴̴@xeraa
2. Where are you WORKING?
3. Who can work from home for 1 DAY / WEEK?
4. INFRASTRUCTURE | DEVELOPER ADVOCATE
5. 850+ ELASTICIANS 34+ NATIONALITIES 30+ LANGUAGES 19+ TIME ZONES
6. Distributed By Design
9. Values
10. WE ARE ADULTS & BEING TRUSTED
11. WE HAVE FAMILIES & PASSIONS
12. DO THE RIGHT THING
13. Downsides
14. SHARE THE PAIN OF TIMEZONES
15. COMMUNICATION CAN FAIL
16. Numbers
18. INDICATOR ARRIVALS: 130 DEPARTURES: 9
19. Conclusion
20. WHERE do you want to work now? Philipp Krenn̴̴̴̴̴@xeraa