[VDZ22] Building Distributed Systems in Distributed Teams by Philipp Krenn

Building distributed systems is notoriously hard... building a distributed team, even more so. At Elastic — the company behind Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash — everything is distributed; the company and our products. This talk dives into the details of how Elastic is thriving on its distributed model; even before the pandemic and why we think this was the right model all along: How Elastic started to be distributed by design. What our shared values are and what we have learned as we progressed and grew to our current size. What the day of an Elastician can look like. What we are using in terms of tooling. How we hire and onboard new employees.