How We Write Code at Zen: move fast and break things
summary
A talk about how the engineering team at Zen builds and ships code for a large content platform that serves 80.7 million monthly users. It describes the problems of recommending content from roughly 100,000 authors out of nearly 5 million items, and discusses the team’s development practices and trade-offs under a “move fast and break things” approach to deliver recommendations at scale.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:30Fast growth challenges
- 5:24Postmortems and incidents
- 7:57Sprint discipline
- 10:48Work balance changes
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