“There’s a saying in engineering: You can build things cheap, fast, or right, but not all three.”— Temple Grandin, amazon.com
“Those are moments when you realize, wow, that would have been a disaster three months from now and we just tackled it here with no coding. All we've done is spent a couple of days writing a doc.”— The First Round Review, firstround.com
“They have to go through the motions of gathering information and socializing the project rather than just jotting something down in a vacuum”— The First Round Review, firstround.com
“A hot-standby is a PostgreSQL replica that allows you to run read-only SQL queries, contrary to a regular standby that does not allow any SQL queries to be executed.”— Yorick Peterse, about.gitlab.com
“We built an AWS Lambda whose sole job is to manage these AppRoles in Vault when a resource is created, updated, or deleted with CloudFormation. Once a Docker container starts up, we set up an ENTRYPOINT script that uses the credentials set by the Lambda function to retrieve a Vault token and access…”— Natacha Springer, kickstarter.engineering
“Thousands of lines of logs fly by like a Hollywood hacking montage. When the process finishes, it’s not always clear if it succeeded or if you need to scroll up to the cryptic error message you’ll need to google.”— Aaron Suggs, kickstarter.engineering
“Three engineers are discussing God's engineering background. The first one says, "God was clearly an electrical engineer. The human nervous system is a feat of electrical engineering genius!" The second one says, "Absolutely not! He was a mechanical engineer. The way the muscles and bones interact a…”— binaryPilot84, reddit.com
“For example, over 2,000 new repos are being created during peak hours, and CI runners are requesting new builds 3,000,000 times per hour. It's an interesting problem to have. We have to store this information somewhere and make sure that while we're gaining data and users, GitLab.com keeps working f…”— Pablo Carranza, about.gitlab.com
“Posts are heterogeneous in form (video, images, audio, text) and consists of semi-structured data (e.g. a textual post has a title and a body, but the actual textual content is un-structured). Luckily enough, our users do a great job at summarizing the content of their posts with tags. As the distri…”— Tumblr Engineering, engineering.tumblr.com
“We use React.js and standard Flux for our application rendering and state handling, though a few teams have been experimenting with Redux as our future state container. We are also migrating our existing OOCSS/BEM-style CSS toolkit, called Superfine, into a set of CSS-encapsulated React.js UI compon…”— Lucie Lozinski, eng.uber.com
“We use Tornado with Python, but Go’s native support for concurrency is ideal for most new performance-critical services.”— Lucie Lozinski, eng.uber.com
“For many years, machine learning was considered a specialty, limited to an elite few. That era is over, as recent results indicate that machine learning, powered by ‘neural nets’ that emulate the way a biological brain operates, is the true path towards imbuing computers with the powers of humans, a…”— Stephen Levy, backchannel.com
“The irony is that when you code, you usually check for the edge cases first. When you design, you usually get to them last”— Full Story, blog.fullstory.com