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:

• 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?

Speaker

With over 15 years of experience in information technology, Sebastian Grodzicki leads the Logs & Metrics UI team at Elastic.

He spent three years as CTO at SHOWROOM (“Europe’s