Etsy Talks

Presentations by the people who build and run Etsy.

Architecting for Change
Kellan Elliott-McCrea
June 2012
Slides
Keeping It Real, Always: Values-based Business at Etsy
Chad Dickerson
May 2012
Slides Audio
Responding to Outages Maturely
John Allspaw
April 2012
Slides
Code as Craft: Building a Strong Engineering Culture at Etsy
Chad Dickerson
October 2011
Slides

Engineering

The Road to Success is paved with Small Improvements
Daniel Schauenberg
January 2015
Slides
Human Factors & PostMortems
Daniel Schauenberg
November 2014
Slides
Deploy, Collaborate & Listen
Daniel Schauenberg
November 2014
Slides
Designing for Performance
Lara Hogan
July 2014
Slides Video
Mobile web is not (just) a technical challenge
Lara Hogan
June 2014
Slides Video
Performance Culture
Lara Hogan
June 2014
Video
Building a Device Lab
Destiny Montague
Lara Hogan
June 2014
Slides
Development, Deployment & Collaboration at Etsy
Daniel Schauenberg
June 2014
Slides
Mobile CI at Etsy
Daniel Schauenberg
June 2014
Slides Video
A Whirlwind Tour of Etsy's Monitoring Stack
Daniel Schauenberg
May 2014
Slides Video
Mobile Web at Etsy
Lara Hogan
April 2014
Slides Video
API-First Development At Etsy
Paul Wright
March 2014
Slides Video
Development, Deployment and Collaboration at Etsy
Daniel Schauenberg
March 2014
Slides Video
Continuous Change At Scale
John Goulah
December 2013
Slides Video
Upgrading the Web - Driving Support For New Standards
Jonathan Klein
November 2013
Slides
The Shard Revisited: Tools and Techniques Used at Etsy
John Goulah
November 2013
Slides
Mobile Feature Configuration and A/B Experiments
Lacy Rhoades
October 2013
Slides
DIY Synthetic: Private WebPagetest Magic
Jonathan Klein
October 2013
Slides Video
A Public Commitment to Performance
Seth Walker
October 2013
Slides Video
Scaling Deployment at Etsy (revised)
Daniel Schauenberg
October 2013
Slides Video
Edge Conf Rendering Performance
Jonathan Klein
September 2013
Slides
Scaling PHP to 40 Million Uniques
Jonathan Klein
August 2013
Slides
Bring the Noise: Making Sense of a Hailstorm of Metrics
Jon Cowie
June 2013
Slides
DevTools at Etsy
Daniel Schauenberg
May 2013
Slides Video
High Performance PHP
Jonathan Klein
May 2013
Slides
Practical Responsive Web Design
Jonathan Klein
May 2013
Slides
StatsD: Measure Anything / Measure Everything (and Scaling StatsD)
Dan Rowe
April 2013
Slides
Crossing the Production Barrier: Development at Scale
John Goulah
April 2013
Slides
Scaling Deployment at Etsy
Daniel Schauenberg
April 2013
Slides Video
StatsD Workshop
Daniel Schauenberg
March 2013
Slides
Continuous Deployment at Etsy: A Tale of Two Approaches
Ross Snyder
March 2013
Slides
Continuous Delivery: The Dirty Details
Mike Brittain
October 2012
Slides
PGP for Smarties
Jan Schaumann
September 2012
Slides
Development is Production Too
John Goulah
July 2012
Slides
Down with the fancy pants
Jan Schaumann
June 2012
Slides
Simple Log Analysis and Trending
Mike Brittain
June 2012
Slides
Building Resilient User Experiences
Mike Brittain
June 2012
Slides Video
Architecting for Change
Kellan Elliott-McCrea
June 2012
Slides
IPv6 basics
Jan Schaumann
June 2012
Slides
Engineering Change: Enable Rapid Experimentation
Kellan Elliott-McCrea
May 2012
Slides
The Etsy Shard Architecture: Starts With S and Ends With Hard
John Goulah
April 2012
Slides
Continuous Deployment at Etsy - SXSW 2012 Lean Startup Track
Chad Dickerson
March 2012
Slides
Removing Barriers to Going Fast
John Goulah
March 2012
Slides
Design For Continuous Deployment
Randy Hunt
December 2011
Slides
TedX Brooklyn: Hackers and redefining better
Chad Dickerson
December 2011
Slides
Building an experimentation framework
Zhi-da Zhong
October 2011
Slides
Take My Logs. Please!
Mike Brittain
October 2011
Slides
Metrics-Driven Engineering
Mike Brittain
October 2011
Slides
Code as Craft: Building a Strong Engineering Culture at Etsy
Chad Dickerson
October 2011
Slides
Scaling Etsy: What Went Wrong, What Went Right
Ross Snyder
October 2011
Slides
Continuous Deployment of Architectural Change
Matt Graham
October 2011
Slides
Just Ship: Managing to Stay Out of the Way
Ken Little
September 2011
Slides
Migrating from PostgreSQL to MySQL Without Downtime
Matt Graham
June 2011
Slides
Optimizing for developer happiness
Chad Dickerson
May 2011
Slides
Deployinator: Turning **THE FEAR** into ..the fear..
Erik Kastner
March 2011
Slides
Continuous deployment
Kellan Elliott-McCrea
March 2011
Slides
Scaling startups
Chad Dickerson
March 2011
Slides
Etsy Activity Feeds Architecture
Dan McKinley
January 2011
Slides

Operations

Data Driven Monitoring
Daniel Schauenberg
October 2014
Slides Video
Mean Time to Sleep: Quantifying the On-Call Experience
Laurie Denness
Ryan Frantz
June 2014
Slides
Integrating Multiple CDN Providers at Etsy
Laurie Denness
Marcus Barczak
November 2013
Slides
Scaling Workflow Management at Etsy
Mike Rembetsy
September 2013
Slides Video
Feature Flagging your Infrastructure for Fun and Profit
Daniel Schauenberg
September 2013
Slides
Custom Live Media Spinning
Jon Cowie
July 2013
Slides
Web Load Balancing on a Budget
Ryan Frantz
May 2013
Slides Video
Chef Workflow at Etsy
Daniel Schauenberg
January 2013
Slides
FITB: Network graphing done right
Laurie Denness
June 2012
Slides
Michelin Starred Cooking with Chef
Jon Cowie
June 2012
Slides
Lessons from Etsy: Avoiding Kitchen Nightmares
Patrick McDonnell
May 2012
Slides
DevOps Management: Herding Cats at Etsy
Mike Rembetsy
May 2012
Slides
Responding to Outages Maturely
John Allspaw
April 2012
Slides
Resilient Response In Complex Systems
John Allspaw
March 2012
Slides
Outages, PostMortems, and Human Error
John Allspaw
November 2011
Slides
Anticipation: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
John Allspaw
November 2011
Slides
Advanced PostMortem Fu and Human Error 101 (Velocity 2011)
John Allspaw
June 2011
Slides
Dev and Ops Collaboration and Awareness at Etsy and Flickr
John Allspaw
November 2010
Slides
Go or No-Go: Operability and Contingency Planning at Etsy.com
John Allspaw
November 2010
Slides
Ops Meta-Metrics: The Currency You Pay For Change
John Allspaw
June 2010
Slides
Search-time parallelism
Shikhar Bhushan
November 2014
Slides
Living with Garbage
Gregg Donovan
May 2013
Slides
Patchwork Data at Etsy
Matt Walker
March 2013
Slides
Funnel Analysis in Hadoop at Etsy
Steve Mardenfeld
Wil Stuckey
Matt Walker
February 2013
Slides
Transforming Search in the Digital Marketplace
Dr. Jason Davis
May 2012
Slides
Data mining for_product_search
Aaron Beppu
November 2011
Slides
Solr @ Etsy - Apache Lucene Eurocon
Giovanni Fernandez-Kincade
October 2011
Slides
Emphemeral hadoop clusters in the cloud
Greg Fodor
September 2011
Slides
Solr & Lucene @ Etsy by Gregg Donovan
Gregg Donovan
May 2011
Slides

Security

Handmade & knitted security
Ben Hughes
November 2014
Slides Video
Building Better Castles
Ben Hughes
October 2014
Slides Video
Security: I Have 5 minutes, You Have a Lifetime
Ben Hughes
June 2014
Slides
That is Mr. The Plague to you: Security and Devops
Ben Hughes
November 2013
Slides
Security: Stop sucking
Ben Hughes
November 2013
Slides
Data Driven Web Application Security
Mike Arpaia
Kyle Barry
August 2013
Slides
Big Data for Web Application Security
Mike Arpaia
Kyle Barry
August 2013
Slides
iOS and Android Security Mechanisms and Exploit Mitigations
Mike Arpaia
March 2013
Slides
Safely Drinking from the Data Waterhose
Jan Schaumann
September 2012
Slides
Effective approaches to web application security
Zane Lackey
May 2012
Slides
SmallBiz and Appsec, from SANS AppSec Las Vegas 2012
Nick Galbreath
April 2012
Slides
DevOpsSec: Appling DevOps Principles to Security, DevOpsDays Austin 2012
Nick Galbreath
April 2012
Slides
DevOpsSec: Appling DevOps Principles to Security, DevOpsDays Austin 2012
Nick Galbreath
April 2012
Slides

Testing

Php|tek ’12 It’s More Than Just Style
Laura-Beth Lincoln
May 2012
Slides
Php|tek ’12 It’s More Than Just Style
Laura-Beth Lincoln
May 2012
Slides
Developer testing 101: Become a Testing Fanatic
Laura-Beth Lincoln
May 2012
Slides
Jenkins Data Mining on the Command Line
Noah Sussman
May 2012
Slides
The user experience of CI systems - Penguicon 2012
Noah Sussman
May 2012
Slides
Selenium in the enterprise - what went right and what went wrong so far - selenium conf 2012 london
Noah Sussman
April 2012
Slides
Software Entomology or Where Do Bugs Come From?
Noah Sussman
March 2012
Slides
PHP UK Conference 2012: Scaling Communication via Continuous Integration
Laura-Beth Lincoln
February 2012
Slides
Selecting Selectors: Using CSS with Selenium
Michelle D'Netto
February 2012
Slides
Fast and Good: Alternate Approaches to Quality at Etsy - STPCon fall 2011
Noah Sussman
November 2011
Slides
Are Your Tests Really Helping You?
Laura-Beth Lincoln
October 2011
Slides
Scaling Selenium
Noah Sussman
September 2011
Slides
Php com con-2011
Laura-Beth Lincoln
April 2011
Slides

API

API-First Development At Etsy
Paul Wright
March 2014
Slides Video
Your API is a Product
Abe Stanway
November 2012
Slides

Web Performance

Web Performance Culture and Tools at Etsy
Mike Brittain
August 2011
Slides

Etsy

Keeping It Real, Always: Values-based Business at Etsy
Chad Dickerson
May 2012
Slides Audio

Current Speakers

  • Chad Dickerson
    CEO
  • John Allspaw
    CTO
  • Mike Brittain
    VP, Engineering
  • Jon Cowie
    Web Ops Manager
  • Laurie Denness
    Staff Operations Engineer
  • Randy Hunt
    VP, Design
  • Patrick McDonnell
    Sr. Operations Engineer
  • Zhi-da Zhong
    Senior Software Engineer
  • Gregg Donovan
    Staff Software Engineer
  • Giovanni Fernandez-Kincade
    Staff Software Engineer
  • Michelle D'Netto
    Software Engineer
  • Wil Stuckey
    Senior Staff Engineer
  • Daniel Schauenberg
    Staff Engineer
  • Lara Hogan
    Director, Engineering
  • Seth Walker
    Director of Internal Platforms
  • Ryan Frantz
    Staff Operations Engineer
  • Ben Hughes
    Lowly Network Security Engineer
  • Paul Wright
    Engineering Manager

Alumni Speakers

  • Kellan Elliott-McCrea
  • Dr. Jason Davis
  • Laura-Beth Lincoln
  • Marcus Barczak
  • John Goulah
  • Mike Rembetsy
  • Ross Snyder
  • Greg Fodor
  • Jan Schaumann
  • Zane Lackey
  • Matt Graham
  • Dan McKinley
  • Aaron Beppu
  • Abe Stanway
  • Mike Arpaia
  • Kyle Barry
  • Matt Walker
  • Steve Mardenfeld
  • Dan Rowe
  • Jonathan Klein
  • Destiny Montague
  • Noah Sussman
  • Erik Kastner
  • Ken Little
  • Nick Galbreath
  • Lacy Rhoades
  • Shikhar Bhushan