***POSTPONED*** Skyscanner Glasgow - towards World Class Engineering at Scale

POSTPONEMENT

Due to a severe yellow weather alert for Glasgow on Tuesday 9th October we will be rescheduling and moving to a new date to be announced shortly.

We appreciate this is short notice but feel it is the right decision given there is a strong likelihood of disruption to road and rail travel with cancellations being possible. We want to both attendees and Skyscanner colleagues can all make it home smoothly and safely

We are looking forward to meeting with you all at the rescheduled date and greatly appreciate the interest shown in Skyscanner.

Many thanks for your understanding and support

Skyscanner

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NOTE: Interest in this event has been very high - Thank you !

We are keen to accommodate as many people as possible but capacity is limited. A Meetup RSVP may not guarantee attendance !

We will be emailing all attendees who have RSVPed nearer the event to confirm their attendance.

EVENT DETAILS

Come and meet engineers from Skyscanner. Based in Glasgow City Centre and rated by Glassdoor as one of the UK's coolest offices.

With an average of 70M+ monthly unique users, Skyscanner is growing rapidly. We have the products that people love to use and offer deep technical complexity associated with scaling this volume globally.

Cloud Operations and Data are key to delivering and scaling a service which delights 70M+ monthly unique users globally.

Sharing more insight on these aspects of our technical journey; past, present and future and answering your technical questions are ….

William Fairbrother (Engineering Manager, Cloud Operations)

William will discuss how our Cloud Operations Team has developed to operate at scale to support a rapidly growing service.

John Ewing, (Principal Engineer, Data)

Every decision in Skyscanner is driven by complete, timely and accurate data. John will share our experience of building and scaling our Data platform to ingest 700,000 messages and 400,000 metric datapoints every second