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Scaling up at Etsy

Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

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The Importance of Reevaluating Decisions

Etsy has migrated a bunch of internal services that are now available as managed offerings, especially in the observability space. We want our engineers as close to the customer's problems as possible so that we're solving directly what is most important for them. Etsy was certainly early enough that they had a lot of that where they had to build stuff themselves. But I think we've been good at keeping an eye on that and saying, okay, that was the right decision. It is nothing that was completely the right decision but times change.

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