Engineering for Engineering's sake

[2016-10-26 Wed 19:04:29] speaker: Mindaugas Mozuras event: Carousell tech talk

Engineering is fun

• at work vs at home

Being a magpie

• choosing new and shiny tools
• asp.net web forms -> asp.net mvc
• svn -> git

Peer to peer marketplace needed a feed

• company: vinted
• wanted: picks, followed, suggestions
• chose redis, but ran into a lot of problems
• took 1.5 years to clear the technical debt

Etsy faced the same problem in 2010

• chose to use memcached
• already in their current stack

boring vs exciting

• memcached was more mature in 2013
• redis was the new and shiny tool

part of stack vs new tech

• knowledge in the company
• growing the stack -> more choices to consider
• operational overhead

Engineering is fun, but shipping is more fun

take home principles

• use boring stuff
• optimize company wide
  • solve problems with what you already have

tackling analytics at vinted

• looked at hadoop
• stuck to mysql for a long while
• eventually switch to hadoop with a lot of effort