Scaling Slack and GitHub with Maude Lemaire

In this episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, Maude Lemaire discusses scaling large products at Slack, GitHub and Cursor, including Slack's load testing with the Go-based Koi Pond tool, thundering herds and event floods, and GitHub's Rails monolith and database sharding limits. She also covers how she uses AI in her work while keeping judgment calls in her own hands, and suggests rotation between platform and product engineering roles.