SESSION + Live Q&A
Change Is The Only Constant
The technical landscape in Skyscanner is always changing - new products, new levels of scale, new challenges. We know we're always going to have to be adapting, so we've set ourselves up to make that a bit easier. I've picked out a few real-world examples from Skyscanner where I think the decisions we've made as an engineering organisation have helped us deal with change and which might be interesting to technical audience.
I'll chat a bit about SLIs, SLOs and SLAs, managing risk with Continuous Deployment, our relationship with Tribes and Squads and walk through migrating our entire codebase to a new source control vendor.
Speaker
Stuart Davidson
Tribe Lead of Production Platform @Skyscanner
I'm the Tribe Lead of Production Platform within Skyscanner where we provide a modern and scalable platform for Skyscanner to run across the globe - kinda what it says on the tin actually. Plenty of exciting challenges at serious scale - how do you operate a site for 100m unique users a month...
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Location
Mountbatten, 6th flr.
Track
Surviving Uncertainty: GDPR, Brexit, or Politics? Beyond DR
Topics
Developer ExperienceCultureShare
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