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The Power of Collaboration in Product Development

Kyle Ludvik — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 01:46:59 +0000

Product development at Eventbrite is a practice centered around understanding what our customers need, so we can enhance current features or build new products. In order to achieve this, our product team collaborates across multiple disciplines throughout the company to ensure we’re thinking about customer needs from all angles. Who is involved in product development? …

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3 Questions With Sapna Nair — Eventbrite’s New VP of Engineering in India

eventbrite — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 13:00:22 +0000

Sapna Nair joins Eventbrite as our new Managing Director and Vice President of Engineering in India. Sapna is a dynamic leader who will lead Eventbrite’s expansion into India and add to our engineering expertise. Her experience building distributed teams will accelerate hiring of top-tier talent in India, helping to deliver on our ambitious technical vision …

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Monitoring Your System

Colin Klein — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 00:30:56 +0000

As Eventbrite engineering leans into team-owned infrastructure, or DevOps, we’re obviously learning a lot of new technologies in order to stand up our infrastructure, but owning the infrastructure also means it’s up to us to make sure that infrastructure is stable as we continue to release software. Obviously, the answer is that we need to …

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Packaging generated code from protobuf files for gRPC Services

Luis Ruiz Pavon — Mon, 02 May 2022 20:03:16 +0000

Background At Eventbrite, we identified in our 3-year technical vision that one of our goals is to enable autonomous dev teams to own their code and architecture so as to be able to deliver reliable, high quality and cost effective solutions to our customers. However, this autonomy does not mean that our team has to …

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Reflecting on Eventbrite’s Journey From Centralized Ops to DevOps

james reichardt — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 22:45:31 +0000

Once a scrappy startup, Eventbrite has quickly grown into the market leader for live event ticketing globally. Our technical stack changed during the first few years, but as with most things that reach production, pieces and patterns lingered. Over the years, we leaned heavily into a Django, Python, MySQL stack, and our monolith grew. We …

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Crafting Eventbrite’s Data Vision

Archana Ganapathi — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 02:46:24 +0000

Data-driven decisions are the irrefutable holy grail for any company, especially one like Eventbrite, whose mission is to connect the world through live experiences. I joined the Briteland to lead the Data Org, merging data-platform engineering, analytics engineering, product analytics, strategic insights and data science under one umbrella with a North Star of leveraging our …

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Creating the 3 Year Frontend Strategy

JC Fant IV — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 16:00:56 +0000

Last post we talked about Developing the 3 Year Frontend Vision, in this post we will go into how that vision, the tenets, requirements, and challenges shaped the Strategy moving forward. One of the key themes in Eventbrite since I joined is DevOps, moving ownership from a single team who has been responsible for ops …

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Creating a 3 Year Frontend Vision

JC Fant IV — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 22:11:04 +0000

JC Fant IV Oct-5th-2021 History Over the course of the last 21 years I’ve spent time in nearly every aspect of the technical stack, however, I’ve always been drawn to the frontend as the best place to be able to impact customers. I’ve enjoyed the rapid iterations, and the ability to visualize those changes in …

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A day in the life of a Technical Fellow

Daniel Micol — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 17:16:43 +0000

In my two most recent blog posts, I talked about how to write a Long-Term Technical Vision and a Golden Path. These are future-looking and high-level artifacts so the question I keep hearing is: do I need to give up coding to grow in my career and become a Technical Fellow? In this post I will …

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Writing our Golden Path

Daniel Micol — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 07:21:16 +0000

In my last blog post I explained how we defined our 3-year technical vision for the company. One of the key pillars of this vision is shifting from a model where we used the same tool for every job (mostly a combination of Python + Django + MySQL), to the right tool(s) for each job. …

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