Velocity NY 2018 - Small Scale Engineering
Channel: jijiki
Date: 2018-12-14

Effie Mouzeli

Scaling to hundreds of hosts and serving thousands of requests per second is interesting and hard. But what about when everything is smaller? How can a tiny team—or even one systems person working alone—make sure small but vital systems stay reliable? Are SRE practices still relevant?

We explain why small-scale engineering is just as challenging as large-scale engineering and offers ideas on how to survive technical debt, poor communication, and other everyday challenges.