API World 2018

Dubizzle is the premier classifieds website in the UAE which receives more than 3.5 million monthly active users, 16 million monthly visits and our users post more than 16 listings per minute. We have 4 major verticals operating within the same portal, viz. for real estate properties, cars, jobs and used items. This session is about our story about how we evolved from a team of 2 developers in 2005 to more than 30 developers in 2018. How this change has allowed us to shape our services and our teams to be fast. Our technological systems organization reflects how our teams are organized and how that enables us to have synergy while developing our products. This session covers our journey, our guiding principles and how we architected our systems and culture to enable us today to deliver market value across all of our verticals. This is about our journey from a monolithic codebase towards a web of interconnected services to now a primarily event-driven architecture.