Panel: Creating Flexibility at Scale
In any fast growing business, scaling to reach millions or billions of people means overcoming significant engineering, management, and cultural challenges all at the same time. But when traffic scale is achieved, the work has just begun to create the most flexible infrastructure possible. Flexible infrastructure means cohesive management of back-end systems; the ability to quickly develop, test and deploy apps and upgrades across different platforms; the ability to migrate services to a new programming language to improve speed and performance; and taking advantage of, and improving upon, open source projects to move the industry forward and benefit from community input. Creating a flexible engineering environment enables companies to move quickly on offering new innovations and capitalizing on new market opportunities. Flexibility in engineering is a project that will never be finished, but will continuously improve through open source, innovation, automation, and artificial intelligence. Hear from industry experts on creating flexibility at scale.
Cade Metz Senior Writer
Sam Schillace SVP of Engineering
Kevin Scott SVP, Engineering and Operations
Jamshid Mahdavi Software Engineer