Optimizing Tech Throughput
summary
Auto1 scales tech from 5 to ~250 engineers by moving a monolith to microservices, then to vertical product teams that own front-end, back-end and mobile for each business line; this reduces cross-team release friction after earlier application-specialist and front/back splits. Concrete results: 2.2 billion revenue in 2017 and ~420,000 units traded, ~220 people in tech with 9 releases per day. Emphasis on QA automation, one-week onboarding and core "firefighter" teams.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:30Company overview
- 4:21Early team structure
- 6:43Scaling challenges
- 9:31Reorganizing for growth
- 12:31Productivity principles
- 14:03Transparency and culture
- 16:01Fun facts and conclusion
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