2014 Schedule
Interactive: March 7–11  •  Film: March 7–15  •  Music: March 11–16

Scaling Pinterest AMA

#sxsw #PinAMA

Believe it or not, Pinterest is a whole lot more than just DIY and mason jars. There is some big technology being built behind a fast moving, and majorly scaling service.
Pinterest grew to billions of page views per month in just under a year. Here, Pinterest's first two engineers will give a short overview of the Pinterest architecture and the history behind it, and then open for questions. Come by and ask them anything!

Presenters

Marty Weiner

Spam & Abuse Eng Mgr

Pinterest

Marty joined Pinterest in early 2011 as the 2nd engineer. Marty previously worked at Azul Systems as a VM engineer focused on building/improving the JIT compilers in HotSpot

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Yash Nelapati

Engineer

Pinterest

Yash was Pinterest's first engineer. He focuses on infrastructure and scalability.

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