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Larson canceled Calm's monolith-to-services migration upon joining as CTO
“You know, when I was at Calm, Calm when I joined about 25 engineers, about a hundred when I left,
And when I joined, we were going through a migration from our monolith to a number of services, and I canceled that migration.”
Carta appoints business unit navigators to act as local decentralized CTOs
“Something I've been trying at Carta and I increasingly believe in is something that at Carta we're calling navigators, but it's basically Having one person per area and roughly a business unit who is kind of the CTO from a technology perspective for that area …”
Larson stopped shielding engineering teams and now exposes them to messy reality
“I used to be a big believer in the umbrella concept where it's okay, we should protect our team from the reality and problems around them so that they can focus. But as you work with more senior teams but also even as you just work in generally, I've come to b…”
Stripe offered enterprise SLAs with financial penalties below four nines uptime
“So at Stripe, we had a reliability like SLA that we kind of extended to enterprise customers in terms of there was actually like a financial consequence to us if we dipped Below a certain level of uptime. Like I think it was less than four nines of API availab…”