DeveloperWeek 2020

An engineer is someone who can do for a dollar what any fool can do for two. This is especially true when building large-scale distributed systems. Anyone can build a system that searches terabytes of data in seconds: the challenge is to do it cost-effectively. (Hint: indexes just get in the way).

In this session, we'll explain how our team used (gasp) math and first principles to build a SaaS product that searches huge volumes of logs, all while remaining cost-effective and fast. This approach led us down the path of an index-free solution, building upon lessons learned from the last few decades of distributed systems.