QC Merge 2012: Growing community
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The document discusses the evolution of Etsy's culture and organizational structure, emphasizing the importance of communication in system design. It highlights the growth of the workforce and the shift from SVN to Git to manage their repository more effectively. Key takeaways include the continuous effort needed to cultivate culture and the importance of simplicity in operations.
QC Merge 2012: Growing community
- 1. Growing Community Learning !om Mistakes
- 2. LB Denker
- 5. Teams
- 6. “The most important component of The EtsyWay is culture and that is as difficult to teach as it is important.” — Chad Dickerson, Etsy CEO
- 7. Disclaimer Speaker does not have firsthand experience with all the events in this presentation.
- 9. Developers - Write Code DBAs - Write SQL, Stored Procedures Ops - Deploy Code and Maintain Production
- 10. “Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure.” — Melvin Conway, 1968
- 11. Developers - Write Code DBAs - Write SQL, Stored Procedures Ops - Deploy Code and Maintain Production
- 12. Sprouter aka Stored Procedure Router Per Web Server on Port 8010 Maps name/arguments to Postgres stored procedure Cache Supports Sharding (Theoretically) Goal — Scale the Web Site
- 13. Forcibly Centralizes Database Access Hides Data Store Implementation “Clever” Automatic Caching Prevents Developers from Writing SQL
- 14. Supported Organizational Silos Enforced “Not Invented Here” Increased Deployment Complexity Database Was Still Single Point of Failure
- 15. Life and Death of Sprouter Fall ’07 First Discussed Spring ’08 Alpha Version Released Fall ’08 Released in Production Spring ’09 Sprouter Deprecated Spring ’11 Sprouter is Dead!
- 18. 2005 Four Guys Founder One DBA Two Developers Founder’s Apartment
- 19. 2007 Maybe 10-15 Engineers Partitioned by Role Developers DBAs Ops
- 20. 2009 Etsy Growth Spurt Workforce Doubled Doubling Again 4x Increase by 2010
- 21. How Do We Organize? Ops — Five People Search — Five People The Rest??
- 25. Re p o e r a te u c e n S e p a o l r, L Ja v a, S epo epo rm R a te R p l o y P l at f o MP S e p a r t De LA Di f fe re n epo Re p o Re p o ate R oDB e p a r o ng r a te s s S e p a r a te S S e p a rdp re u by l a, M Wo R Sc a
- 26. What? Why? Too Big to be One Team SVN Repository was Too Big to be Just One Solution: Split the Workforce, Split the Repository
- 28. SVN to Git in 1,000 Easy Git Fans using git-svn Git is Better Equipped to Handle the Mammoth Repository Merge the Repositories Together Devise a Workflow, Document It, Teach It Do the Switch!
- 30. Divide and Merge Break-up By Customer or Necessary Technological Difference Create Constantly Changing Sub-Teams within Divisions Make it Easy to Move Between Focus Areas
- 31. or k , e tc. t ac k Ex pe rt ise Jav a S a re , Ne t w H a rd w ome r C us t ome r C us t e the e the rs a r rs a r B u ye Se l le C us t ome r u i re d Si lo the y Re q g is Le gall ngi n eerin E
- 33. DevOps Culture “Always Be Pushing” Developer Happiness We trust one another
- 34. Continuous... Unceremoniously... Initiated By... Push Changes to Deployment Anyone Production Apply Quality Integration Anyone Process Release New Delivery Product Features
- 35. Continuous... Unceremoniously... Initiated By... Push Changes to Deployment Anyone Production Apply Quality Integration Anyone Process o w? Release New ??? H Delivery Product Features
- 37. Lessons Learned
- 38. Possible Takeaways Look Back on History to Avoid Repeating the Bad Parts Cultivating Culture Requires a Constant Concerted Effort Don’t Optimize Too Early Keep It Simple
- 39. Thank You! Visit etsy.com Learn at codeascraft.com More on SlideShare
- 40. Etsy Shop Photos TheSundayFlower * DreamingInCraft SavageJulietteJewels * TKfindz SewFab1 * YouMeSittingInATree JLMould SingleStoneStudios * EllanaCouture iSew Cufflinks PreettySandHu GimmCat ExLibrisJournals * TwirlsWithPearls ChalkStyle * Shop Curated in Cincinnati
Editor's Notes
- #2: TheSundayFlower\nSavageJullietJewels\nSewFab1\n
- #3: \n
- #4: Handmade, Vintage, Supplies\nHow Founded...\n15 Million Members\n>800,000 shops\n$525.6 Million in sales in 2011\n
- #5: My First Etsy 2006\nMy Wedding Dress 2010\nMy First Halloween at Etsy\n
- #6: Community at Large\nTop Tips for Etsy Sellers include:\nTeams!\nHome for the Holidays\n
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- #9: This is taking off\nEngineers excited to engineer\n
- #10: 2005 only 3 Guys\nBoing, Boing August 4 Guys\n2006 and 2007... something like\n
- #11: Conway’s Law\n
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- #13: Promises\nAbstraction can buy you flexibility, maybe this did\n
- #14: The Good\n
- #15: The Bad\n
- #16: Took a Year to implement\nTwo Year’s to take down\n
- #17: What Changed?\nCulture Shift\nChad Dickerson\nInvolved several engineers leaving\n
- #18: Next battle\n
- #19: Before alluded to Four Guys\n
- #20: Partitioned roles that led to Sprouter\n
- #21: 15 to 30 to 60\n5 people in the 3 partions\nbut 20?\n
- #22: Ops - Hardware\nSearch - Acquired Adtuitive, Java stack\nThe other 50?? and growing??\nHow to organize is a question that plagues every company at some point\n
- #23: Can’t Just have a cloud\n
- #24: First crack\n20 per team also hard\n5 to 7 is an ideal team size\n
- #25: Something like this while we were at 40-50\n
- #26: But we went further\n
- #27: \n
- #28: All depended on the core libraries anyways\nWrapper tools\n“Smelled of unicorn”\n
- #29: Blog post on codeascraft.com\n
- #30: Current attempt looks something like this\n-next-\n
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- #33: 2010 DevOps and Actual Continuous Deployment\nWhat we normally talk about...\n
- #34: Our commandments\n
- #35: What I usually explain\n
- #36: Done with first Two\nHow to get the third\n
- #37: I showed this earlier\nProduct is the third piece of the puzzle\nIncludes product management, design, quality\n
- #38: Growing a community with the product\nGrowing a community structure similarly inside to maintain and create more\nThis was about learning lessons\n
- #39: Possible Takeaways\n
- #40: Visit Etsy, checkout the 60 pages worth of local artisans\nSee how code is our craft on the product engineering side\nView our previous slide decks for more information on these topics\n
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