Paul Gross

I’m a Principal Software Engineer in Seattle. I have previously worked at Rvvup, Ripple, Braintree/PayPal, and ThoughtWorks.

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I had the opportunity this year to present my talk on “High Availability at Braintree” at four conferences. Here is the roundup:

I updated the content between presentations, so I’d recommend the Velocity version if you haven’t seen the slides yet: High Availability at Braintree.

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