Aish Dahal at StaffPlus London 2023
summary
Claim: cross-team staff-level alignment turns a product-level design into a company-wide platform. Case study shows a product lead reads Google Zanzibar, writes a design doc, and shifts from a monolith plan when 50 teams request access; infrastructure architects and product engineers combine proposals, run them past an architecture committee, build a service with observability and on‑call rotations, and ship it. Outcome: a platform with shared ownership, temporary staff loans, and a public blog post proving the approach works.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:30Case study: Bob and Carol
- 6:25Staff engineer archetypes
- 9:37Access control challenge
- 11:23Organizational partnerships
- 16:06Trust and saying no
- 18:14Applying principles
- 20:22Staff+ community
- 22:08Q&A
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