This is a wonderful article, architecture, and project. Can anyone from Clickhouse comment on any non-technical factors that allowed such a rapid pace of development, e.g. team size, structure, etc.?
Couple of things-
1. Hiring the best engineers globally - this was huge as we are a distributed company and can hire the best talent anywhere in the world.
2. Flat team structure specially in the first year with a concept of verticals(technical areas - like autoscaling, security, proxy layer, operations etc) and having one engineer own and drive these verticals.
3. Lot of cross team collaboration and communication (across product, engineering, business, sales)
4. Lastly as mentioned in the blog post, it was very important for us to stick to the milestone based sprints for faster development and product team helped a lot to prioritize the right features so that engineering could deliver.
