I have been working at a US company for almost a month recently. An interesting fact is that I have counted the SaaS services I have used for specific scenarios since joining, and surprisingly, there are as many as 23 of them. All of these SaaS services are provided by third-party companies. In other words, Databricks is a customer of all these companies. This aroused my curiosity and made me want to learn about the situation of these companies. ...
I recently had the pleasure of joining Databricks, but I often reflect on my profoundly rewarding experience at ByteDance. Before joining ByteDance, I was a software engineer who had written code for a decade. My core responsibility was to tackle system design and code development for complex software while ensuring robust operations in production environments. At ByteDance, however, I led a 16-person technical team (mostly Senior+ engineers) responsible for building the competitiveness of ByteDance’s public cloud EMR open-source engines—a role that was immensely challenging yet transformative for me. Through this article, I want to share what I gained from working at ByteDance. ...