Latency2023 - Monolith to mesh: Canva’s journey to a decentralised warehouse platform, Jonathan Neo
The talk covers Canva's journey of rapidly scaling its data engineering platform by transitioning from a centralized data engineering team to a platform team with decentralized data specialists embedded in domain teams. This shift enabled Canva to evolve from having 30 data specialists in 2020 to over 250 in 2023. The talk provides insights into the key design decisions taken and the lessons learned from this transition towards a decentralized data warehouse platform.