How GitHub engineers tackle platform problems
GitHub’s platform engineering team on how they tackle infrastructure problems at scale: Understanding your domain: Talk to neighboring teams with more experience Investigate old issues to understand system limitations Read documentation to build foundational knowledge Platform-specific skills: Network fundamentals (TCP, UDP, L4 load balancing, debugging tools) Operating systems and hardware selection for scalability and cost Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Consul) Distributed systems understanding (failures are inevitable, need failover/recovery) Impact radius considerations:...