scale.bythebay.io: Thayne McCombs Interview
Recording: scale.bythebay.io: Thayne McCombs Interview
I'm sane mccombs and they work for elusive software well right now the probably the biggest challenge we're facing is were transitioning into continuous delivery and it's it's challenging to figure out how how to make sure that everything's been thoroughly tested before we release it make sure that our co quality stays up to our high standards and make sure that we don't introduce me backwards compatibility issues if we release services and things like that a lot of our data is stored in relational databases so one issue that we've come and random to you is how to shard that data as we have to start scaling horizontally so they were vertically which for the most part we've started it based along application boundaries so like having splitting our code up into different services and then having a separate database freight service and then I'll and that's also helped us scale horizontally with our application servers as well but that's also a diff amount of fair amount of complexity and we've we're still struggling with being able to make the services more independent of each other so that if one of our critical services has a Hugh's it doesn't take down the rest of our services why the biggest thing is expanding more into global markets and like right now we have a all of our services run in a single AWS region and as we start looking at expanding more around the world we start need to start looking into maybe expanding into multiple regions charting data geographically and [Music] well I think probably the biggest thing is you know in our our back-end servers we run a lot of threads and with functional programming and makes multi-threading a lot safer you don't have to worry about as many data races when you our data is all immutable and these functional paradigms to sort of handle our data and then pipeline yeah I think one thing I'm excited about is that there's a whole bunch of Scala developers here and Scala is a bit of a less common language so it's exciting to be around a whole bunch of people that are also using Scala [Music]