Scaling engineering culture at Twitter
Scaling engineering culture at Twitter
Location:
Seacliff C/D
Time:
Wednesday, 2:50pm - 3:40pm
Abstract:
Over the past two years, we've re-architected Twitter to support the massive user growth. What we learned, however, was that re-architecting Twitter was not simply a software engineering problem, but also a cultural problem. Similar to how our original infrastructure had scaling issues, our engineering culture was facing scaling problems too. We had to co-evolve our software along with our engineering organisation to get to the more resilient culture we have today. This talk is the story of the continuous work that we're putting into scaling that part of Twitter.
@raffi is the VP of Engineering in charge of @twittereng's Platform, the core infrastructure of Twitter. His teams manage, amongst other things, the business logic, the scalable services, APIs, storage, core libraries, and the internal development model of all of Twitter.
Before Twitter he used to create technologies to help people frame their personal energy consumption against global energy production (Wattzon - Business Week's "Best Idea" 2008), fueled his television habit through writing "TiVo Hacks" (O'Reilly, August 2003), and also ran a consulting company building off-the-wall projects. At one point, he used to teach at NYU’s ITP (created the class Every Bit You Make) and spent way too much time as a student at MIT and the MIT Media Lab (Internet 0 - Scientific American September 2004).