CTO @ Meetup. She leads the engineering team with a focus on continuous learning, iterating, and using data to launch software that brings people together around the world to do what matters to them.
Oh, if I were able to answer this well, I'd probably be able to retire as a hard working CTO and instead rely on my awesome abilities to predict the future of tech! :)
Alas, I can't say for sure, but the technologies that we've really be impressed with using in our production systems that need to really scale (we have 32+ million members on our platform) include:
Kubernetes -- especially since we can not run K8s on both AWS and GCP -- it really reduces the complexity of running our Docker container ops and makes is much simpler to empower cross-functional teams of engineers to own and operate their own domains in production.
Serverless -- we're using both AWS Lambda and GCP functions to build business logic in a lightweight way and love it.
Fastly -- using Fastly and VCL as our CDN layer has been a huge game changer for us. It's really powerful and we can do a lot of things at the CDN layer that we used to have to do at the application layer. Doing it at the CDN layer helps us reduce the amount of complexity and technical debt in our application layer.
Frameworks/languages we've been using a lot more the last 2 years that we love (nothing is very revolutionary on this list but we've battle tested these and they've withstood very well): React/Redux/Node, Swift, Kotlin (just started playing around but love it)
What new technology should we keep an eye on?
Oh, if I were able to answer this well, I'd probably be able to retire as a hard working CTO and instead rely on my awesome abilities to predict the future of tech! :)
Alas, I can't say for sure, but the technologies that we've really be impressed with using in our production systems that need to really scale (we have 32+ million members on our platform) include:
Kubernetes -- especially since we can not run K8s on both AWS and GCP -- it really reduces the complexity of running our Docker container ops and makes is much simpler to empower cross-functional teams of engineers to own and operate their own domains in production.
Serverless -- we're using both AWS Lambda and GCP functions to build business logic in a lightweight way and love it.
Fastly -- using Fastly and VCL as our CDN layer has been a huge game changer for us. It's really powerful and we can do a lot of things at the CDN layer that we used to have to do at the application layer. Doing it at the CDN layer helps us reduce the amount of complexity and technical debt in our application layer.
Frameworks/languages we've been using a lot more the last 2 years that we love (nothing is very revolutionary on this list but we've battle tested these and they've withstood very well): React/Redux/Node, Swift, Kotlin (just started playing around but love it)
Big +1 on Fastly
How does fastly stack up against CloudFlare? I've been really happy with themç, but haven't looked much into other CDN providers.