Building Distributed Systems in Distributed Teams
summary
Elastic built company and product processes distributed by design from day one, now ~2,700 people across time zones. Concrete practices: written-first decisions, GitHub issues/PRs and email lists for async work, lots of Slack/Zoom plus always‑on Zoom streams and weekly “fix it Friday” bug pools. Onboarding uses “xcool” and a small Elastic RED graduate program (four hires) with two mentors each. Cautions: time‑zone delays, harder social bonding, juniors need daily hand‑holding.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:15Working from home
- 2:18Distributed by design
- 9:03Downsides
- 13:46How a day looks like
- 15:32Tools
- 16:49Conclusion
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