Everyone dreams of being ‘Web Scale’, but we start out small. We — most of us — don’t launch a service and expect it to serve millions of requests from Day 1. This means that we don’t think about the ways in which our stack will blow up when the number of requests does start climbing. This talk lists simple patterns and checks that Development and Operations teams should implement from Day 1 in o… more

This is a crisp talk targeting engineers in leadership roles in Clojure companies. I will cover our experience at Helpshift, growing from 5 Clojure engineers to 30+ today. I will talk about: more