Building Reliable Systems with DoorDash's Matt Ranney Big Ideas in App Architecture

You are effectively scaling your software teams to their maximum efficiency. When is the right time to automate specific features to accommodate your growing team?

This week we’re joined by Matt Ranney, Principal Engineer at DoorDash who emphasizes the importance of finding productivity angels in smaller teams with more automation, and how understanding that unit testing isn't the only valuable metric can lead to building more efficient infrastructure systems.

Matt also discusses the pros and cons of Kubernetes and microsystems, and provides call-to-actions when Doordash experiences failures or downtimes on microservices. He stresses the importance of acknowledging that partial failure is still complete failure, and how taking steps to prevent and mitigate these failures can greatly improve overall system reliability.Join as we discuss:
Finding productivity angels: Discover the importance of finding productivity angels in smaller teams with more automation.Valuable metrics beyond unit testing: Unit testing is important but don’t let it get in the way.Get tips on how to prevent downtime and mitigate failures on microservicesThe importance and power of Change Data Capture