On-demand webinar

On Distributed Systems and Distributed Teams

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Tyler Hannan
Tyler Hannan

Director of Product & Technical Marketing

Elastic

Overview

A wall clock that ran backward and a skull and crossbones flag. Fictional parliamentary systems of ancient civilizations. @all threads that run into the several hundred replies. All are interesting stories and illustrate concepts that make Elastic...elastic?

The distributed systems movement, and open source more broadly, is fueled by solving a series of complex problems: consensus, leader election, failure semantics, among others. Our reasoning about distributed concepts influences system design and implementation. Our understanding impacts that which we build...particularly when we build distributed companies. How does a distributed team building distributed systems, at Elastic, function?