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Genuine question that isn't answered in the article: what is it that Faire is doing that suggests they're maintaining engineering velocity as they scale in a wa
by bentlegen 4y ago
Genuine question that isn't answered in the article: what is it that Faire is doing that suggests they're maintaining engineering velocity as they scale in a way that is equal or better to anyone else out there? Alternatively, what are the engineering challenges of running Faire's storefront/marketplace makes them more qualified to write about their experiences scaling vs. other organizations?
This article opens with an unsupported assumption, "we are really good at this", and doesn't really elaborate on what that means. I'd genuinely like to know what great engineering at scale looks like, not just some suggested ways to do it.
- kevmo314 4y agoAdding on all that, is a 100 person team really necessary to run a storefront? That seems like the antithesis of maintaining engineering velocity.
- winphone1974 4y agoFrom my experience scaling to a 100 is also pretty easy. You don't get consistent results across all your teams but you're small enough to mask this with direct communication and adhoc process. The foundational stuff really pays off when you go to 200, 300 plus, and you will definitely slow down.
- mescortes 4y agoWe intentionally focused the article on 1 to 100. Today we are over 400 engineers and we are still pretty happy with how the engineering velocity progressed as the team grew.