When our tiny startup was acquired by a giant corporate we tried to understand all the possible implications on our engineering organization. We thought the giant scale would catch up with us at some point, but like everything in tech that's at high velocity, it came much sooner than planned. We quickly understood that our infant system built for our first phases was starting to break down under million user scale.

We needed to re-architect... and under fire! With the sudden influx of production clients we couldn't disappoint.

But that wasn’t all! We needed to do so while pivoting our app to be user facing for the first time.

In this talk, we’ll discuss tackling a whole new set of challenges for a small fish suddenly thrown into a huge ocean - including architecture breakers, scaling up and re-building ourselves with a reliable, scalable, user friendly AND facing system.