An important tenet of organizational design is minimizing cross-team coordination to achieve your goals. Teams that can move with little cross-team coordination finish projects while others are still ratifying their implementation proposal.| lethain.com
A while ago I wrote about modeling a hiring funnel as an example of creating a system model, but that post doesn’t explore how the process of evolving a system model can be helpful. This post does.| lethain.com
Technical infrastructure is never complete. System processes can always run with less overhead or be bin-packed onto fewer machines. Data can be retrieved more quickly and stored at a cheaper cost per terabyte. System design can broaden the gap between failure and user impact. Transport layers can be more secure.| lethain.com
I’m speaking at Velocity on June 12th on ‘How Stripe invests in technical infrastructure’, and this is the rough outline of the content the talk will cover. I hope to see y’all there.| lethain.com
Interview in May, 2022. Learn more about Matthew on his blog, twitter, and linkedin. Tell us a little about your current role: where do you work, your title and generally the sort of work you and your team do. I work at Spotify as a Senior Backend Infrastructure Engineer. My team builds and maintains the tools that enable Spotify engineers to deploy safely and quickly whenever they need to. We work a lot with Kubernetes, which Spotify uses to deploy and manage most of its websites and backend...| infraeng.dev
Written interview in May, 2022. Learn more about Mahdi on his website, linkedin, and his StaffEng podcast interview. Tell us a little about your current role: where do you work, your title and generally the sort of work you and your team do. I am currently a Senior Staff Engineer at 1Password, leading the Server Architecture team. We are implicated in our systems’ overall design while pushing for the modernization of legacy systems.| infraeng.dev