DataCamp

Data science is the future, but learning it takes a lot of time. Time you don’t have? Wrong. With DataCamp for Mobile, you master data science while on the train or on the bus (or on the toilet, as we’ll explain). You don’t…

DataCamp: The plan

In a previous post, I gave some context on why we started DataCamp at a macro level. This post describes the key steps in…

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As our engineering team started growing, so did our number of microservices. Initially we started off with 3, now we have closer to 30. We believe in giving our engineers ownership over their services. This means that they have a high level of freedom on how to structure…

This post focuses on how to scale the people building the tech behind DataCamp, not on how to scale the actual technology (for the latter, I refer to our CTO’s technical vision). Scaling the engineering group in a smart way is essential for the company…

At the start of 2016, DataCamp’s team consisted of 8 people. Less than 18 months later, we’ve grown to 45 people. DataCamp’s subscriber numbers and courses have grown exponentially as well in that period. In the spirit of transparency, since the…