From 3 Deploys to 106: How Riverside Scaled Engineering (and Why Code Wasn't the Hard Part)
A year ago, Shilo Magen joined Riverside as VP R&D. He quickly noticed the system couldn't keep up. Deploys were slow, the monolith was bloated, and the team was buried in bugs.
His tweet about what he did to fix it went viral, so I invited him to a live stream to come talk about it and share it all with you!
Here are just some of the things he implemented:
→ 50+ micro-services broken out of a monolith using GraphQL federation
→ Deploys: from 3/day to 106/day
→ Commit to merge: from 95 hours to 12 minutes
→ Bug backlog: from 3,400 to 300
→ T2T (tickets per take): down 14%
→ 95% of incidents now come from internal metrics — goal is 100%
→ 10+ new engineering managers recruited
And according to him, none of it happened because of technology! The hardest part was culture, people, and building a team with real ownership.
What we'll talk about
→ The real decisions behind breaking a monolith
→ How to go from "3 environments" to production-first deploys in under 5 minutes
→ Why he says every team owner should feel like they own a startup inside the company
→ Recruiting high-agency people and building talent density, not just headcount
→ The culture part nobody talks about, and why it was harder than all the technical work combined
Who is this for?
Engineering managers, tech leads, CTOs, founders scaling a dev team, and anyone who read that thread and thought "how the hell did he actually do that."
About us:
Shilo Magen — VP R&D at Riverside. Previously VP R&D at Grain, founded Textplz (acquired). 6+ years at Wix. Builder by heart.
https://x.com/shilomagen
Neta Dror — Co-founder & CTO @ Stealth | Builder at heart | Marketing → PM → Dev | 3 bootstrapped apps.
https://x.com/netadror
The session will be streamed live IN HEBREW on multiple social platforms. Registered attendees will receive a reminder email and links to the recordings after the live stream ends.