Company
Date Published
Author
Richard "RichiH" Hartmann
Word count
890
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Grafana Labs is undergoing significant growth, expanding from 30 to over 180 employees in just 2.5 years, and is reorganizing to sustain this momentum by shifting from a project-focused to a product-focused management structure. This reorganization, which does not involve layoffs, aims to rebalance workloads and enhance feature velocity by adopting governance models from successful open-source projects like Prometheus. The company is aligning its internal processes with open-source methodologies to foster collaboration and scalability, even for its closed-source initiatives, and is committed to employing more engineers dedicated to open-source projects. This approach enhances Grafana Labs' ability to innovate and grow by ensuring that internal and external resource coordination is effectively managed, supporting both its commercial and open-source goals.