3. We’ve written a lot of new tech tools
Ironfan Wukong
Chef specialization for Ruby library for Hadoop
Big Data in the cloud
Wonderdog Swineherd
Hadoop interface for Workflow engine for
ElasticSearch Hadoop jobs
4. But it’s not about the technology…
… it’s about the culture
5. Hiring Process
Technical
Team Initial Full
Initial Pass Phone
Interview Contract Employment
Interview
6. Management Structure
Flat: I regularly talk with C-level folks
Open: Everyone has well-understood roles
Fair: Leadership leads, not orders about
Understanding: Problems are addressed, not
blamed
7. Employee Support
Fully stocked kitchen
Daily group lunches
Employee joy fund and voting
Company outings, both impromptu and formal
Some fun and games, too
8. Employee Development
Employee’s focus is largely self-directed
Lack of experience is (almost) never a
determining factor
Common language for problems and frustration
Make employees awesomely valuable, and
totally uninterested in leaving
9. Technical Culture
Good ideas can come from anyone
Fail forward, not roll-back
Repeatability is your friend
Automate out of boredom or fear, not efficiency
Failure from audacity is better than failure from
inaction
10. Infrastructure Choices
More assumed access for developers
Small, decoupled, late-binding wherever
possible
Build anew, rather than repurpose an old
Actively pull unused code and data from
production
11. Beyond DevOps
NoOps +1: everyone technically does part of
Ops, it’s just my specialty
AllOps: product & marketing can help Ops, and
vise versa
It’s all about removing barriers to being
awesome, everywhere
12. What’s next?
How do we handle the impedance mismatch
between our model and our clients’ models?
What do we do as the company grows beyond
the size of the monkeysphere?
How should we tackle user segmentation and
security as we build our Platform out?
13. Contact Us – We’re Hiring!
855-DATA-FUN
infochimps.com/careers
careers@infochimps.com
