Top Stories published by REA Tech Blog in 2017

Scaling On-Call: from 10 Ops to 100 Devs

This is an Ignite I gave at DevOpsDays Sydney 2016.

Like a lot of on-call systems ours was once pretty terrible. We had 10 operations staff on-call, and we were responsible for every system in the company. Spending a week on-call…


A Journey into Extensible Effects in Scala

This article is an introduction to using the Scala Eff library, which is an implementation of Extensible Effects. This library is now under the Typelevel umbrella, which means it integrates well with popular functional programming libraries in Scala like…