Reddit’s infrastructure hasn’t always been as reliable as it is today. And Principal Software Engineer, Jason Harvey, is one of the main people responsible for the progress and improvements that took the site from 8 hours of downtime a week to the current 99% uptime. He started at the company in 2011 and has been in the middle of most of the changes to the Reddit infrastructure since then.

In this episode, Jason shares how those improvements were implemented, what he does at his job every day, and how Alaskans like to meme.

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