Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
Hello, friend! 👋
Thanks for popping by, I'm a Team Lead and Staff Engineer @zendesk. Previously @ferocia and @lonelyplanet.
I work in a small team of Ruby and Rails specialists in Copenhagen and our mission is to improve the reliability of systems and enable our Engineering Organization to scale while contributing to the Open Source community. We work on stuff like:
- Infrastructure: We use sharding at Zendesk and added multiple database support (ARS, ARHP) to Rails before it was a thing. Now that it's here, we're moving our systems over to it.
- Reliability: We've outgrown our existing unique ID solution and need a way to safely migrate to something more robust.
- Scaling: We're currently serving thousands to tens of thousands of requests per second depending on the service, and we continue to iterate on our systems to handle this sustained growth. We work on Pocs to identify bottlenecks as we look to handle 2x, 5x, 10x the amount of traffic we have today.
- Query Killer: Monitor and kill long running queries that might negatively impact our clusters. Queries are flagged so the owning teams can improve the performance, keeping our customers happy and systems healthy.
- Circuit Breaker: Adding a protective layer to our applications which monitors health and limits requests when approaching an unhealthy state.
If this kind of work excites you and you'd like to be apart of it then please reach out!
