Building Distributed Systems in Distributed Teams @ Infoshare 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 @ infoshare 2020 !@sebgrodzicki
2. $ whoami Sebastian Grodzicki • Engineering Manager at • ex-CTO at SHOWROOM & GoldenLine • #LifeAtElastic !@sebgrodzicki
3. Elastic Stack
4. Cluster
5. Stats … … … … employees countries languages time zones
6. Stats ~2000 ~40 ~30 ~20 Elasticians countries languages time zones
7. 29 offices
8. DISTRIBUTED by design
9. Founders
10. DISTRIBUTED not remote
11. Office
12. Coworking space
13. Home office
14. Home office
15. Home office
16. Home office
17. X-School X-School
18. Engineering All Hands
19. Global All Hands
20. GAH 2020
21. Our Source Code
23. Team
24. Leadership Team Lead Product Lead Tech Lead
25. Meetings • weekly team planning • (bi-)weekly 1:1 with your manager • monthly product roadmap review • quarterly performance review with your manager • release retrospective (every 8-10 weeks)
26. Demo day, Ask Me Anything, Company All Hands, etc.
27. Release train Development QA Release Feature freeze QA Release Feature freeze QA Release Feature freeze Development Development Development
28. . . Semantic Versioning 7 9 1 major minor patch
29. Tools
30. Tools
31. Tools
32. Tools
33. Tools
34. Who wants to work from an office?
35. Who wants to work from home?
36. Thank you!
37. Questions?