Maintaining Reliability During Technical Churn
This talk was held on Wednesday, August 08, 2018
New application features—especially those requiring application or data migrations—pose a potential risk to reliability and service level objectives (SLOs). Removing features also poses unique challenges, such as setting user expectations or migration to new applications. I talked about strategies to maintain reliability and SLOs in these situations. Building on those strategies, I walked through a recent migration from a prototype to a new production implementation that resulted in zero downtime, zero data loss, and no transparent effect on the end user.
Speaker
Nick Whelan is an Engineering tech lead at Indeed. He leads a team working on new products with a focus on development speed, scale, and reliability for the future. Nick loves working with the Elastic stack and helping others find success with their Elasticsearch use cases. Aside from writing code, Nick enjoys interviewing and finding great engineers on college campuses, where he represents Indeed at career fairs, interviewing, and hosting coding competitions.