Moving Fast At Scale
summary
Argues that engineering organization design drives architecture and speed, using two-pizza teams and small autonomous product teams that own code, ops, and quality; leans on continuous delivery and test-driven development to push multiple deployments per day; uses machine‑learning ranking and site‑speed work validated by controlled A/B experiments, each yielding roughly 2% revenue lifts, and prefers buying cloud and SaaS rather than building infra, with experiments proving what actually works.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:23Background
- 1:41High-Performing Organizations
- 4:26Conway's Law
- 6:06Small "Service" Teams
- 11:46What Problem Are You Trying to Solve?
- 13:14Buy, Not Build
- 15:34Experimental Discipline
- 16:47eBay Machine Learned Ranking
- 18:05eBay Site Speed
- 19:24Prioritization
- 23:27Quality Discipline
- 24:57Test-Driven Development
- 26:29Optimizing Developer Effort
- 28:25Build It Right (Enough) The First Time
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