Localytics: from an idea to billions of data points per month
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Localytics: from an idea to billions of data points per month
Andrew Rollins
Growing a team and scaling your technology isn't easy. There's plenty of general advice on the matter, tons of blogs and opinion pieces to read, but what's it really like? Where are the war stories? In this meetup, we aim to take a detailed look at an actual startup and how it grew a team and a built a tech stack that handles massive amounts of requests.
Andrew Rollins is chief software architect at Localytics, a mobile analytics company and one of the winningest small startups in the Boston area. In his presentation, he will share the trials and tribulations of growing an infrastructure that handles billions of datapoints a month and thousands of active clients every second.
Andrew is a conscientious and well-informed decision-maker and will provide deep insight into the key decisions that resulted in their current stack: Ruby, Scala, MongoDB, with heavy reliance upon AWS services such as EC2 and SQS.
Topics include:
Scaling technology Motivations behind key technology decisions, what worked, what didn't Managing and quickly expanding infrastructure Advantages and disadvantages of their release procedure, how it’s changed Tracking bottlenecks, performance, and cost efficiency Scaling team When/where process has been necessary and helpful What coordination tools have been helpful and which ones were scrapped Spreading the operations load with devops Attendees will get a better sense of the challenges that face data-driven companies with rapid growth. They will have a chance to learn from someone else's mistakes and be better prepared for their own ventures.
If you're a VPE, CTO, or well-rounded developer in the Boston area, you can't afford to miss this exceptional presentation from one of the area's most outstanding battle-tested startups.