Presentation: Groupon Engineering: Building Culture through the Experimentation MindSet
“Groupon invests in the growth of its devs” - Built in Chicago
“Technology companies including. . . Groupon have all expanded their regional offices, some employing hundreds of people.” - Bloomberg
Groupon is getting global recognition for being a leading tech company. At Groupon, we are constantly experimenting both on how we design and build from our own A/B testing framework that allows us to iterate on our products and continue to optimize over time to how we cultivate a powerful engineering culture through feedback mechanisms and collaboration tools that lead to innovations and breakthroughs. In this session we will delve into these experiments, our newly established group ETHOS driving engineering culture at Groupon and the results these experiments have produced.
Key Takeaways:
This topic speaks to the “people” part of People, Process and Technology. The “people” part has been the most notoriously difficult and challenging for companies to assess and build into an overall effective corporate strategy in a way that leads to the most productive, innovative and collaborative engineering organization in particular.
Groupon as the fastest growing company in history has presented particular challenges; attendees of this session will learn about the ideas and program driving Groupon’s engineering culture that have lead to measurable results.
Tracks
Covering innovative topics
Monday, 3 November
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Architectures You've Always Wondered about
The newest and biggest Internet architectures
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Real World Functional
Putting functional programming concepts to work in the real world.
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The Future of Mobile
The future of mobile and performance improvements
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Continuous Delivery: From Heroics to Becoming Invisible
Continuous Delivery philosophies, cultures, hiccups, and best practices.
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Unleashing the Power of Streaming Data
This track explores a variety of use-cases, platforms, and techniques for processing and analyzing stream data from the companies deploying them at scale!
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Sponsored Solutions Track I
Tuesday, 4 November
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Engineering for Product Success
Architectures that make products more successful
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Reactive Service Architecture
Reactive, Responsive, Fault Tolerant and More.
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Modern CS In the Real World
How modern CS tackles problems in the real world.
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Applied Machine Learning and Data Science
Understand your big big data!
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Deploying at Scale
Containerizing Applications, Discovering Services, and Deploying to the Grid.
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Sponsored Solutions Track II
Wednesday, 5 November
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Beyond Hadoop
Emerging Big Data Frameworks and Technology
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Scalable Microservice Architectures
This track addresses the ways companies with hundreds of fine-grained web-services (e.g. Netflix, LinkedIn) manage complexity!
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Java at the Cutting Edge
The latest and greatest in the Java ecosystem
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Engineering culture
Successes and failures in creating an engineering culture.
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Next gen HTML5 and JS
How Web Components, the Future of CSS, and more are changing the web.
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Sponsored Solutions Track III