Scaling Our Engineering Department (part 2)
This is the second part in a 2-part series. Read part 1. In my last post I gave an overview of how we started the process of changing the way we do agile development at Leaseweb by setting goals,
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Looking back at TechSummit Amsterdam 2016
Leaseweb’s annual Amsterdam TechSummit took place on June 2 at the Pakhuis de Zwijger, an old warehouse converted to a high-tech multimedia event center. The summit was sold out with over 315 attendees who came to hear a variety of presentations from professionals focusing on this year’s theme: Designing for Scalability. Those who attended were […]
Diving deeper into Kubernetes with Google’s Terrence Ryan
Terrence Ryan, a developer advocate at Google, gave a talk entitled Containing Chaos With Kubernetes at Leaseweb’s TechSummit in Amsterdam on June 2nd. We sat down to find out a little bit more about his thoughts on the topic. Interviewer: What issues are facing engineering departments who have just moved to containers? Terrence: One of […]
Scaling our engineering departments (part 1)
In this blog post I’m going to cover how we are scaling our engineering department at Leaseweb: where we started, the lessons we’ve learned, and how we are hoping to move forward.
A maturity model for DevOps teams
Last year, we merged our existing operations and development departments into one Product Engineering department. Since then we have been focusing a lot on coaching all 13 teams and improving their effectiveness In october last year, we attended an excellent talk by Bol.com at Velocity Amsterdam. In this talk they explained their ongoing transition towards DevOps. […]
The Seven Deadly Sins of Web Scale (Part 2)
In this 2-part mini-series, Joshua Hoffman examines some of the common issues companies face when designing for scalability. Read part 1 here. In my previous blog I looked at what I call the first three sins of web scale – pride (the refusal to use tools not invented here), envy (the desire for a more […]
The seven deadly sins of web scale (Part 1)
Throughout my career I’ve had the opportunity to work at a variety of different companies both large and small. They each had their own set of unique challenges regarding growth but one thing I noticed with time and experience was that the solutions to the problems they faced were not specific to the company itself. […]
Remote Management: how it secures and gives you more control over your Bare Metal Servers
Leaseweb is always striving for the best customer experience and we believe that putting you in the driver’s seat is a key factor in this. After all, the more control you have, the faster you can get things done. To help you with this, we automate important self-service processes that enable you to manage your […]
How the cloud is like Minecraft
Recently I was reading this article in the New York Times about Minecraft. It’s a story about how Minecraft is changing the way children play, learn and create things. It does so by bringing them into a digital environment that provides the freedom to let them fully design their own world, complete with houses, vehicles […]
Scalability: The hot topic at this year’s TechSummit
The theme of TechSummit 2016 Berlin and Amsterdam is “Designing for Scalability”. But what do we really mean by the word “scalability”? Well, we’re all familiar with the standard definition along the lines of Wikipedia’s definition: “The capability of a system, network, or process to handle a growing amount of work… A system whose performance […]