Maude Lemaire discusses scaling lessons from Slack and GitHub
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Maude Lemaire, former head of backend performance infrastructure at Slack and now a database scaling engineer at GitHub, shared her engineering experience handling large-scale software product scaling issues at both companies on The Pragmatic Engineer podcast. According to the show's introduction, the conversation centered on the challenges of scaling one of the world's largest software products, covering her relevant work experience at Slack and GitHub.
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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.
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