Luke Millar | VP of Engineering at Medium | Small Medium Team | Changes @ Medium | Employee Retention | Team Building | Halving Amazon Costs | Technical Improvements | Engineering Ladders | Experienced Engineers | Maintaining Tech Costs | Build vs Buy | GitHub’s Changes | Making Users Happy | Medium’s Scale | Medium’s System | GraphQL Queries | Spikey Traffic | Cost Issues | Caching Layers | News Traffic | GraphQL At Medium | GraphQL Pitfalls | Technology Trade-Offs | Bloated Queries
Aug 21 2023
52 mins
Luke Millar is a seasoned software engineer with extensive experience across the spectrum, from small startups to industry giants. Following the acquisition of his former venture, Projector, by Medium, Luke has taken the helm as the Vice President of Engineering at Medium, spearheading key initiatives and charting the course for technical excellence. Topics discussed include: Small