{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-author-jsx","path":"/blog/author/hollie_haggans/","result":{"data":{"prismic":{"allFeaturedblogs":{"edges":[{"node":{"featured_blogs_enabled":true,"heading":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"Featured posts","spans":[]}],"featured_blog_1":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Blog","_linkType":"Link.document","blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":790,"height":395},"alt":null,"copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/6d8d81b1-971a-4313-b033-b4e125cb14a0_MondoDB-blog-header-790x395.PNG?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Introducing DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB – a fully managed, database as a service for modern apps","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2021-06-29","blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"MongoDB is one of the most popular databases, and it’s ideal for apps that evolve rapidly and need to handle huge volumes of data and traffic. It offers advantages like flexible document schemas, code-native data access, change-friendly design, and easy horizontal scale-out.","spans":[{"start":22,"end":44,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://db-engines.com/en/ranking","target":"_blank"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"However, building and maintaining MongoDB clusters from the ground up can be a huge undertaking. Developers often complain that they have to spend their valuable time and resources on database management. Well, we’ve been listening and have some great news: accessing and managing MongoDB on DigitalOcean just got a lot simpler!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We are excited to announce that DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB is now in General Availability. Managed MongoDB is a fully managed, database as a service (DBaaS) offering from DigitalOcean, built in partnership with and certified by MongoDB Inc. It provides you all the technical capabilities that make MongoDB so beloved in the developer community. Together we have ensured that you will get access to all the latest releases of the MongoDB document database as they become available.","spans":[{"start":32,"end":91,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/managed-databases-mongodb/"}},{"start":230,"end":241,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.mongodb.com/","target":"_blank"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Managed MongoDB simplifies the MongoDB administration. Developers of all skill levels, even those who do not have prior experience in databases, can spin up MongoDB clusters in just a few minutes. We handle the provisioning, managing, scaling, updates, backups, and security of your MongoDB clusters, allowing you to offload the complex, time consuming –yet critical – database administration tasks to us. This empowers you to focus on what really matters: building awesome apps.","spans":[]},{"type":"embed","oembed":{"height":113,"width":200,"embed_url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvHQSV7jnKA","type":"video","version":"1.0","title":"Create a MongoDB Database on DigitalOcean","author_name":"DigitalOcean","author_url":"https://www.youtube.com/c/Digitalocean","provider_name":"YouTube","provider_url":"https://www.youtube.com/","cache_age":null,"thumbnail_url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NvHQSV7jnKA/hqdefault.jpg","thumbnail_width":480,"thumbnail_height":360,"html":""}},{"type":"heading2","text":"Benefits of Managed MongoDB","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Easy set up and maintenance: We create the database clusters for you. Simply choose the cluster configuration (e.g., memory, disk size, number of nodes, etc.), and the data center in which you want to host the database. 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Such users would rather offload the tedious database administration and focus their limited time and energy on building and enhancing their apps. ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"With this in mind, we introduced Managed Databases a couple of years ago and are excited to add Managed MongoDB to our portfolio. With this release, DigitalOcean Managed Databases now supports the following engines:","spans":[{"start":33,"end":50,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/managed-databases/"}}]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/87745cc1-1c5f-4463-b104-104b7fc30dc7_managed-databases-logos.png?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":849,"height":104}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Managed MongoDB launch comes on the heels of DigitalOcean App Platform, a modern, reimagined PaaS (Platform as a Service) that we released a few months ago. App Platform makes it very easy to build, deploy, and scale apps and static sites. You can deploy code by simply pointing to your GitHub and GitLab repos, and App Platform will do all the heavy lifting of managing infrastructure, app runtimes, and dependencies. 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His keynote will be followed by sessions from community members, engineers, customers, and other experts that are building technologies and businesses powered by the cloud. With live Q&A and an active Discord server, there’s ample opportunity to engage and learn something new. Click here to attend the deploy conference.","spans":[{"start":14,"end":69,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://deploy.digitalocean.com/agenda/session/552806"}},{"start":347,"end":384,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://do.co/deploy-discord"}},{"start":461,"end":489,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://do.co/deploy"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We are also launching a hackathon for DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB. 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We feel like we know infrastructure and can handle most of the configuration and management. What we needed from a cloud was not bells and whistles but efficiency and reliability. DigitalOcean provides us a platform to build our apps and then gets out of the way. Just how we like it.” - Achyuth Krishna, Director of Engineering of Whatfix","spans":[{"start":0,"end":7,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://whatfix.com/blog/driving-the-future-now-were-excited-to-announce-our-90-million-series-d-funding/"}},{"start":287,"end":648,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We understand that scaling while maintaining reliability of applications and profitability of business is important, so we provide robust solutions which minimize downtime.","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Centra is a SaaS-based e-commerce platform for global direct-to-consumer and wholesale e-commerce brands. 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I actually managed to start my first company while attending college, so that was great. I built that business over a number of years, and had the pleasure of starting DigitalOcean in the summer of 2011 with four other co-founders, you being one of them. That was definitely a fun journey. We rented a three-bedroom ranch out in Boulder, Colorado.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":11,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"That was for the Techstars program. What was the most exciting or the most interesting memory that you can share from Techstars? Which memory stands out in your mind?","spans":[{"start":0,"end":166,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"I'd say demo day. A lot of practice and months of preparation went into getting ready…and there were about a thousand people in the audience. I think it was a high pressure situation because it's investors and people from the community; it's not just a general crowd.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The other event that came to mind the year prior to that, or actually just a few months earlier—the New York Tech Meetup. That was 800 people, but it felt much more supportive because it's the tech community coming out to see a few companies demo and showcase their work, whereas the Techstars demo day, you feel like you're being judged by a thousand people. So that was definitely an intense experience. I remember doing practice sessions with you in the backyard; getting ready for demo day, and you did the Karate Kid on me: “Wax on, wax off.”","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Overcoming Challenges","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"DigitalOcean has grown, not only on the people side, but also on the tech side. We've gone through a lot of different technology challenges and struggles, so I would love for you to talk about some of those struggles and how we overcame those challenges.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":254,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Initially, most of the software was actually written by a single person, Jeff Carr, our co-founder. And in those days, the way that we would reference cloud health could be measured in hours. Essentially, how many hours can Jeff stay away from the console before something would break and he would need to get back in there and fix it? The good news is that we applied simplicity to our architecture as well. So we ensured that, no matter what happens, customer Droplets and customer environments wouldn't be affected by most of the outages and most of the service interruptions.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"It allowed us to maintain a really high level of uptime and build the performance and reliability that our customers expect, but at the same time, if you're a single person building the system, a lot of difficulties, [and] challenges come up that you may not have foreseen. [And] the product really scaled. Jeff more or less single-handedly got it to nearly 100,000 customers. What you start building day one looks radically different when you have 100,000 users on the service. I'd say that was one challenge.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The second is really as we started to grow: building and engineering team morale into the service and getting people familiar [with] the ins and outs of the systems. And what was really exciting is that first team, one of their main driving objectives was to refactor a lot of the code that Jeff wrote. Turning it from a proof-of-concept into a much more stable and reliable environment, with documentation, with a more modular understanding, and so that kind of speaks to the shift that we're still going through today. Moving away from the monolithic app that was originally built into a more distributed, micro-service enabled architecture. We're making good progress, but with a more scalable service environment comes more complexity. We have to invest a lot more engineers into building new features and capabilities. And so there are trade-offs in each of those scenarios.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"It All Comes Down to People","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"How has the engineering team structure changed throughout the years to support that evolution of our back-end code base and stack?","spans":[{"start":0,"end":130,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"There are a few interesting mutations along the way: Going from one engineer to 30; bringing in our first set of engineering managers. We really promoted from within our first six. And I think what was really inspiring is a few years ago, we sat down and came up with a mission document, and said, \"Okay, if we're gonna scale this to a million customers, and even more revenue, how do we see ourselves getting there?\" And everyone contributed towards what their team's mission and objective was.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"[For a while] it was more or less a few frontend teams and quite a few backend teams, but nonetheless, that structure held for a couple of years. And prior to that, I feel like we were reworking maybe every other quarter. So that stability allowed us to grow the team, from 30 or 40 people to a little bit over a hundred. Just a few months ago, engineering management along with [the] Product [team] had the opportunity to re-envision a different way to organize the teams, and today, we've moved to a much more vertical structure, building a team around each of the products. We [now] have a team for Droplet, a team for our Storage services, and a team for the Network services. And that's full stack from the frontend, the API, all the way to the backend services. We're in a much more verticalized structure today.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"As CEO of the company, what are some of your challenges and what really keeps you up at night?","spans":[{"start":0,"end":94,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The interesting thing is that the role has changed year by year, and different challenges come up and are top of mind. I would say the two that I feel are most recurrent [are] related to the people. Whether it's employees or even the senior leadership team, and making sure that you have that right, that everyone's engaged, they're motivated, that you're making the right hiring decisions. That's all pretty complex stuff when we only hired 20 people [at first]. Today, DigitalOcean is roughly 350 people. And as a result, the amount of decisions that you have to make multiplies, and also the effects within the company become that much more complicated. That's always an interesting aspect of the work.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The second challenge that ties very close to that is making sure you paint the right vision for the business, so that people feel like when they come to work, they know what needs to be done. They're in alignment with where the company is headed. And that they're motivated and inspired by what we're trying to build.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"So it all comes down to people?","spans":[{"start":0,"end":31,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Companies are collections of people first and foremost. They're not the service, they're not the product, it's really people, and once you comprehend that, I think it allows you to take your leadership to the next level.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Hollie Haggans heads up Global Partnerships for DigitalOcean’s Hatch program. She is passionate about startups and cold brew coffee. Get in touch with questions at hatch@digitalocean.com.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":187,"type":"em"},{"start":164,"end":186,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"mailto:hatch@digitalocean.com"}}]}],"blog_post_date":"2017-10-03","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Community","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"community"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"hatch-one-year-anniversary"}}},{"node":{"author":{"_linkType":"Link.document","author_name":"Hollie Haggans","author_image":{"dimensions":{"width":400,"height":400},"alt":"Hollie Haggans","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/7793109e3fed5f875dc50b8866c8e631bd51d5b5_0bfbced-1.jpg?auto=compress,format"},"_meta":{"uid":"hollie_haggans"}},"blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":784,"height":418},"alt":"Woman interviewing Man illustration","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/e2998af44cd18a7ad05e9dae5e714793557b3ddb_hatchpodcast_socialillo_blog_pat.png?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Marley Spoon: A Look into Their Stack and Team Structure","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"Over the past eleven months, more than 1,600 startups from around the world have built their infrastructure on DigitalOcean through Hatch, our global incubator program designed to help startups as they scale. Launched in 2016, the goal of the program is to help support the next generation of startups get their products off the ground.","spans":[{"start":132,"end":137,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/hatch/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Marley Spoon, a subscription meal kit company based in Berlin and Hatch startup, sees infrastructure as an integral part of every engineer’s workflow. “We are trying to build a team where people don’t feel responsible just for a small bit, but we want to build a team where people feel responsible for the whole architecture,” says Stefano Zanella, Head of Software Engineering at Marley Spoon. “In order to do this, we believe that people need to know how the system works.”","spans":[{"start":0,"end":12,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://marleyspoon.com"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In this interview, Zanella gives us a glimpse into Marley Spoon’s unique engineering team structure, and the technologies they use to power both their customer-facing platform and the internal-facing production and distribution platform. The following has been transcribed from our Deep End podcast, and adapted for this blog post.","spans":[{"start":282,"end":290,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://soundcloud.com/digitaloceanpodcast/marley-spoon-on-building-a-great-engineering-org-for-scale"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"DigitalOcean: How do you model your engineering teams?","spans":[{"start":0,"end":54,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Stefano Zanella: Our teams are shaped around user flows to some extent. We have currently four teams: three teams are product teams—they are related to the product itself—and one team actually takes care of the platform for the infrastructure.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":15,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The [first] three teams, we shape them around the user flow. So, we have a team that takes care of the new customers. We call it the acquisition team because they focus mostly on marketing, but they also provide data insights, manage the customer experience for new customers, shorten the subscription flow, and so on.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Then we have a team that focuses on the recurring customers. It’s the team that takes care of the functionality like adding to an order, posing new subscriptions, keeping a delivery, changing your address, changing the time that you want your box at home, etc.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"And then the third team actually takes care of what we call the “back office” in the sense that we do it in our own production centers; we have warehouses all across the world. We have a tool that tracks how many orders need to be done, when, where, and [by] which warehouse. We have them organize the batches because we work a lot with shippers and we try to be just in time, because of course the food is fresh and we want to keep it just like that. So this team takes care of all the production-related issues.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"And how do you organize these teams? Do you have teams with maybe product managers, designers, engineers in the same group? Or [do] you isolate teams depending on their skill set or area of expertise?","spans":[{"start":0,"end":200,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The interesting thing about Marley Spoon is that the situation is always changing. We are very proud of the fact that we believe in owning the process and changing the process and structure as we see fit.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"When we started we had an engineering team and a product team. Then, at some point, we realized that the communication structure wasn’t working well enough for us to be productive and effective enough. So we actually put the product managers inside the [engineering] teams. Then, we [also] figured out that the relationship with the designers wasn’t good enough, so we put the designers inside the team as well.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"For a certain period of time, we had teams [that] were functional from my point of view, and now since we are growing a lot, the team is growing, and we have different needs. We are [now] focusing on product managers aligning with the rest of the business, rather than with engineers because the relationship with engineers is really good right now. We moved the product team outside of the teams again, so they are their own team because we want them to also work as a team, not just be disconnected. We assign specific product managers to specific departments and then internally, the team shuffles the work to the engineering team. But it’s a situation that can change every time, because it really depends on where we see the problems.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Going down the technology side of things, what’s your stack and architecture right now? Or maybe you want to talk about how Marley Spoon evolved?","spans":[{"start":0,"end":145,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Well, actually let me answer the last part of your question, because I think it’s really interesting speaking about the engineers. So, we do believe that the main role of an engineer is not writing code, but it's actually running the system.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"And in order to do this, we believe that people need to know how the system works. They need to have a feeling of how the whole system is working. From that point of view, we don’t see all of the teams related to technology, for example. We use a workflow based on the Kanban workflow. Since it’s based on Kanban, every time somebody runs out of work, they are free to pick new work from the backlog. And the product managers manage the backlog, which means that whoever is free should pick stuff from the top because that’s the most important thing to do.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We don’t have this clear distinction between backend and frontend developers. We do have people that are more skilled at frontend or backend, but we try to broaden their scope of action all the time. So, from that point of view, we try to help each other a lot because we believe that’s the best way to grow.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Getting back to the stack question, what are the technologies you have in your architecture?","spans":[{"start":0,"end":92,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"So, mainly we are a Ruby-based company. We use Rails mainly for our web apps. We have a couple of projects that are pure Ruby because they are projects for background processing. We started them in Ruby, but we are considering switching to a different technology.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We are currently in the process of upgrading the stack because we were using Backbone as a library and Coffeescript as a language because that was what was coming out with default Rails 4. Now we are slowly moving toward React because we see a lot of traction outside and inside the team as well. So, we would like to give it a try.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We hope that will also help us shape and improve our relationship with the designers, for example. Then we have a small a command line tool, for our Kanban board because we wrote it ourselves. We wrote our own Kanban board because we like to have a tool that can evolve in the process. And we wrote a very little command line tool so that you can create tickets and move tickets around from the command line.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Tune into the full interview on our podcast, or learn more about our Hatch program today.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":28,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://soundcloud.com/digitaloceanpodcast/marley-spoon-on-building-a-great-engineering-org-for-scale"}},{"start":48,"end":82,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/hatch/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Hollie Haggans heads up Global Partnerships for DigitalOcean’s Hatch program. She is passionate about startups and cold brew coffee. Get in touch with questions at hatch@digitalocean.com.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":187,"type":"em"}]}],"blog_post_date":"2017-07-31","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Community","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"community"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"marley-spoon"}}}]}}}