Optimizing Scale: A Comprehensive Guide

by Saravana Gupta Ravindran

326 pages, Hardcover

Published September 23, 2024

About the author

I am a seasoned leader who specializes in building reliable, low latency, and scalable distributed cloud solutions. I have a proven track record of leading teams and projects across diverse domains such as web, ad tech, and telecommunication, and delivering high-quality outcomes that drive business growth and customer satisfaction.

Currently, I am a Senior Engineering Manager at Atlassian, where I lead the Confluence Cloud Scale efforts. I am responsible for designing and implementing scaling, optimizations, caching, migrations and load testing tools for Confluence, one of the world's most popular collaboration platforms. I have successfully scaled the Confluence Cloud from 5k to 150k user limit per tenant and ~1M tenants and advertisement serving platform from 8k to 250k QPS with P50 ~6ms, using cutting-edge technologies such as AWS, Kafka, Spark, Redis, Aerospike, and DynamoDB. I have also filed multiple patents in the advertisement domain, demonstrating my innovation and creativity in solving complex problems.