David Rubin


Title: Migrating at Scale

Abstract:

Change is hard! Everyone always talks about new shiny tools and “Devops” but what happens when you have a product that does billions of pageviews with teams that span multiple continents and timezones with more than a few hundred engineers (2000+ total employees). In this talk David will highlight some of the challenges OLX experienced with a recent move from high spec physical servers to running container based orchestration on AWS using versioned infrastructure. He also touches on how we dealt with keeping our teamwork great as well as the platform architecture.

Speaker

David Rubin

David Rubin

@drubin87

David is an engineer and loves making developers’ lives easier and to keep VPCs purring like kittens. Currently working at OLX bringing his startup experience into handling and building OLX’s technology platform. For the last 7 years he has worked for the FireID group on various products including being part of the original team that built SnapScan, CEO of Swiftly, CTO of FitKey. He takes pride in his few fast failures along the way too. David currently lives in Stellenbosch, the wine capital of South Africa.