Berlin Buzzwords 2024

Varun Thacker

Varun Thacker is a Staff Software Engineer at Slack, currently focused on log search for observability data. He is an Apache Lucene and Solr committer and Project Management Committee member. Previously, he has worked on search at Slack and Lucidworks.


Company/Organisation

Slack


Session

06-11
14:00
40min
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Bryan Burkholder, Varun Thacker

You've heard the wisdom of choosing boring technology, but how do you balance this with new usage patterns and ever-increasing scale? Learn how Slack developed a petabyte-scale log search engine with a team of just three engineers, supporting over one million queries per day.

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