Cattle Not Pets – Configuring Scalable Resources

When I first heard the term “cattle not pets” it was the perfect metaphor to describe a concept I had always been aware of when developing for the cloud. The same idea that we had been pushing for our own infrastructure at Muserk from the beginning. Pets being something that you name, feed, and care for whereas cattle are… well…

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Update: Working as a Distributed team

It has been a wild few months here at Muserk. We’ve onboarded some major players as customers, started a joint venture in Japan to combat piracy, and successfully executed our largest payout to date. To say things have been moving fast would be an understatement. Taking on this rapid growth as a distributed team has been its own effort so we wanted to check in and give an update on some things that have and have not worked for us.

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Working Remotely

How Our Office Prepared Us To Be A Remote Team

As many startups do, Muserk began as a fully remote team. Once our business solidified, workflows increased and collaboration became increasingly more important. The logical next step was to get as many people as possible into one place. With team members all over the world, however, we couldn’t expect the entire company to move to Nashville.

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