A director of engineering explains scaling from dozens of employees to thousands

<p>You can find out more about Suyog and his career <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/suyograo/">here</a>. True story, he once worked on tablets way before tablets were a thing.</p><p>He's on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/suyograo?lang=en">here</a>. You can check out Elastic Cloud and it's suite of services <a href="https://www.elastic.co/">here</a>.</p><p>Suyog talks a bit about data gravity, a concept you can learn more about <a href="https://www.cio.com/article/3331604/data-gravity-and-what-it-means-for-enterprise-data-analytics-and-ai-architectures.html">here</a>.</p><p>If you're a fan of release notes and want to get a sense of what Suyog worked on at Elastic over the years, check out his blog archives <a href="https://www.elastic.co/blog/author/suyog-rao">here</a>.</p><p>Thanks to our lifeboat badge winner of the week, lhf, for anwering the question: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18982730/how-can-i-get-the-current-utc-time-in-a-lua-script/18987425#18987425">How can I get the current UTC time in a Lua script?</a></p>