Luke Millar | VP of Engineering at Medium | Small Medium Team | Changes @ Medium | Employee Retention | Team Building | Halving Amazon Costs | Technical Improvements | Engineering Ladders | Experienced Engineers | Maintaining Tech Costs | Build vs Buy | GitHub’s Changes | Making Users Happy | Medium’s Scale | Medium’s System | GraphQL Queries | Spikey Traffic | Cost Issues | Caching Layers | News Traffic | GraphQL At Medium | GraphQL Pitfalls | Technology Trade-Offs | Bloated Queries

Luke Millar is a seasoned software engineer with extensive experience across the spectrum, from small startups to industry giants. Following the acquisition of his former venture, Projector, by Medium, Luke has taken the helm as the Vice President of Engineering at Medium, spearheading key initiatives and charting the course for technical excellence.

Topics discussed include: 

• Small Medium Team
• Tremendous Impact
• Medium’s Phases
• Going Faster
• Being Acquired
• Visual Storytelling
• Changes @ Medium
• Employee Retention
• Work & Fun
• Meaningful Goals
• Team Building
• Halving Amazon Costs
• Technical Improvements
• Hiding Behind Big Teams
• Engineering Ladders
• Clarity Helps
• Introducing Levels
• Impacting Business
• Domain Expertise
• Experienced Engineers
• In-House Solutions
• Maintaining Tech Costs
• Build vs Buy
• GitHub’s Changes
• Making Users Happy
• Listen To Users
• Medium’s Scale
• Medium’s System
• GraphQL Queries
• Spikey Traffic
• Cost Issues
• Caching Layers
• News Traffic
• Unpredictable Spikes
• 10000 Requests Per Second
• GraphQL At Medium
• GraphQL Pitfalls
• Technology Trade-Offs
• Bloated Queries

Links:

Medium
Twitter
Website
LinkedIn
Medium Engineering Blog