Scaling Engineering by Hacking Conway's Law
summary
Company growth from ~100 to ~1,000 engineers in five years drives a reorg into cross-functional gangs, discipline guilds, and startup-like companies; guilds handle recruiting, compensation, tooling and training so product teams stay fast while quality rises. Architecture shifts to limited stacks (JVM, Node, React) and microservices hosted in over 1,000 microservices clusters so rooms of 4–10 people own 1–5 services. Practices include guild day learning, 20% time for education, and about 300 deploys per day.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Wix engineering background
- 2:27Overcoming silo challenges
- 8:18The gang and guild model
- 19:33Scaling with company clusters
- 25:47Evolving guild responsibilities
- 30:23Architectural scaling
- 35:18Developer-centric culture
- 41:23Guild day and skill growth
- 49:57Transparency and conclusion
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