Building Distributed Systems in Distributed Teams
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Elastic runs as a company of ~1,200 people across 19 time zones and grows by ~50 hires per month, thriving because distribution is built into its DNA rather than grafted on. Processes favor progress over perfection: features start isolated as plugins, some have been removed (dots and field names) and later reimplemented, and pull requests are the currency for coordination. Operational tooling is Slack, GitHub and heavy email filtering, onboarding is X‑school, teams use always‑on video channels and twice‑yearly engineering meetups.
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