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Date Published
Author
Thomas Wojtalewicz, Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering at Seismic
Word count
1034
Language
English
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Summary

Seismic has grown rapidly over the past five years, expanding into new markets and acquiring several companies, while maintaining consistency in its platform and delivering a unified Seismic Enablement Cloud to customers. To achieve this, two key strategies have been implemented: standardizing with Terraform, which enables consistent deployment across multiple cloud providers and minimizes cognitive load for engineers; and weekly cross-functional team meetings, where representatives from various product areas discuss the state of new projects and the overall health of their production system, sharing incident response data and SLO trends to identify areas for improvement. By driving standards in its tooling and technology, Seismic has reduced its technology sprawl, enabling it to scale across multiple geo-locations while minimizing cognitive load and ensuring a unified customer experience.