Building Distributed Systems in Distributed Teams
A presentation at NewCrafts in in Paris, France by Philipp Krenn
Building DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS in DISTRIBUTED TEAMS Philipp Kre ! 44444 @xer "
Who is working from HOME?
Who is working from a COWORKING SPACE?
Who is working from an OFFICE?
Who can work from home for 1 DAY / WEEK?
DEVELOPER ADVOCATE
CLUSTER
UNSTRUCTURED, DISTRIBUTED, DIVERSE
Q: https://sli.do/xeraa A: https://twitter.com/xeraa
850+ ELASTICIANS
Elasticats 4 Elastronauts 4 ELKompadres 4 Elastics 4 Elastigons 4 Elasticers 4 ElastiCoolians 4 Homo Elasticus 4 Elasticitizens 4 {elastician} 4 Elasticodians 4 The Elasticrew 4 Elasticons 4 Elastonians from Elastonia 4 Elastic Dudes / Elastic Dudettes
34+ COUNTRIES 30+ LANGUAGES 19+ TIME ZONES 16 OFFICES
Distributed By Design
DISTRIBUTED NOT REMOTE
X- SCHOOL
A LWAYS ON
(CROSS) TEAM TIME BUGPOOL, FIXITFRIDAY, OFFICE HOURS,...
RELEASE PARTY
PROCESS PER TEAM
ENGINEERING ALL HANDS SALES KICKOFF
Values
ELASTICSEARCH TEAM DEVELOPMENT CONSTITUTION https://github.com/elastic/engineering/blob/master/development_constitution.md
TECH PROGRESS OVER PERFECTION
TECH REMOVE FIRST , FIX LATER
TECH ONLY ACCEPT FEATURES THAT SCALE
PEOPLE BE KIND
PEOPLE EMPATHY FOR PASSION
PEOPLE REPORT ABUSIVE COMMENTS
MY EXPERIENCE
ELASTICIANS ARE ADULTS & TRUSTED
ELASTICIANS HAVE FAMILIES & PASSIONS
Elastic wi ! be providing 16 w " ks of 100% paid parental leave during the first year fo ! owing the birth or adoption of a child — whether you are a mom or a dad
DO THE RIGHT THING
YOU VOLUNTEER
SOMETIMES YOU ARE VOLUNTOLD
Downsides
SHARE THE PAIN OF TIMEZONES
COMMUNICATION CAN FAIL
CULTURES ARE DIFFERENT
DECISIONS CAN DRAG
T ! ls
SYNC
ASYNC
Hiring
OH: It's not "hard" ski ! s vs "soft" ski ! s
- its "technical" vs "profe " ional" ski ! s. — https://twitter.com/freakboy3742/status/907032201497255942
AGE, GENDER, LOCATION, RACE,... IS JUST AN ATTRIBUTE
600 TO 950 CV PER WEEK
NO BULLSHIT INTERVIEWS
500 TO 600: 5M 600 TO 700: 3M 700 TO 800: 2M
Numbers
INDICATOR ARRIVALS: 130 DEPARTURES: 9
Conclusion
Who wants to work from AN OFFICE?
Who wants to work from HOME?
QUESTIONS? Philipp Kre ! 44444 @xer "
Building distributed systems is notoriously hard... building a distributed team, even more so. At Elastic — the company behind the open source tools 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.
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