Over the past three years Twilio has grown from idea to international communications provider supporting production phone, SMS, and browser and mobile VoIP applications built by more then 50,000 developers. In this talk i'll share some of the technological tools, engineering processes, and cultural values we've used to enable that growth and to support massive scalability and rapid deployment of new services.
Evan Cooke Evan is Co-Founder and CTO of Twilio. Prior to Twilio, he served as a Postdoctoral research fellow in network security and distributed systems at the University of Michigan where he completed his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science.
Find Evan on Twitter as @emcooke
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