SREcon23 Europe/Middle East/Africa - Scaling Chef Emotionally

SREcon23 Europe/Middle East/Africa - Scaling Chef Emotionally

Brett Pemberton, Slack

Slack has used Chef to configure our fleet since the get-go, including several periods of hypergrowth - things from the initial launch through to pandemic times. This growth also meant scaling the number of Engineers who wanted to successfully use Chef in their own way.

Most of the time we were able to sustain a scalable and flexible Chef Infrastructure and codebase to satisfy ourselves and our Engineers. Sometimes not. …

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