Ian Downes is engineering manager for the compute platform team at Twitter. His team of about 10 engineers and a few other staffers buoys a platform providing container infrastructure to much of the stateless services powering twitter.com and its advertising business. Downes spoke recently at Container World on “Twitter’s Micro Services Architecture: Operational & Technical Challenges.”
When people talk about containerization, he says, it’s often about how it can enable scale and disruption, but that doesn’t interest Downes much.
“What I’m more interested in are scaleable operations — independent of what scale you’re at,” he says.
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