When i was at uber, we doubled head count every six months. And so i think the pain ifthe structure in that moment isis really brutally intense. If you invest to make it work during the rapid th era, we're radically over invested for the later eras. The most important lesson is that f our impa structure teams is offen this perspective that you're being ignorantly defunded.
Will Larson, the CTO at Calm, covers a wide range of topics including whether Infrastructure Engineering is chronically understaffed, the role of Eng Ops, how his opinion on the “build vs buy” question has changed, his thoughts on metrics, and more.
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