Scaling Fast – Engineering Lessons From ~15 Years of Tech Startups
summary
Claims that mattered are concrete and actionable not lofty. Growth forces scaling of business team and tech with the hard numbers of customer acquisition versus lifetime value and a focus on not blocking product velocity. Engineering practices that scale include vertical teams by business domain, contract driven APIs, short PRs (2–3 minutes) and treating DRY as negotiable so teams can copy where it keeps boundaries clear. Uses the example of 10 standard designs to argue pick repeatable solutions and tweak the problem not the design.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:13Scaling the business
- 4:05Scaling the team
- 11:51Scaling the tech
- 17:57Data and domain-driven architecture
- 19:03Closing
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