Mike Brittain
Director of Engineering, Etsy

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Mike Brittain is the Director of Engineering for infrastructure teams at Etsy in Brooklyn, NY. He manages the low-level platform teams that focus on enabling Continuous Deployment in an engineering team of over 100 people. The focus of these teams is on developer tools, testing automation, web performance, database access, caching, and site resilience. You know, the fun parts!

Mike has been involved in Internet development for over 12 years as a generalist, with interests frequently bouncing between front-end and back-end technologies and engineering. He has put his experience to work over the last seven years leading small development teams at a handful of Internet start-ups in New York City.

Recent comments

posted almost 4 years ago:
@Vitaly: Mainly the point there is that you want almost all of your requests to serve from cache on the CDN. You pay for delivery between the CDN and the end-user.
posted almost 4 years ago:
I've posted some tips on selecting a CDN vendor (link: http://www.mikebrittain.com/blog/2009/06/24/selecting-a-cdn-vendor/) on my site. A little more content that couldn't be squeezed into my shor...

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