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Nextdoor Engineering

·Sep 17, 2020

Meet the Interns — Summer 2020

This summer was unlike any other. With the pandemic, there was uncertainty about whether our internship program would be possible. After some major work across multiple teams, we were beyond excited to (virtually) welcome 11 summer interns to the neighborhood! Typically, our summer internship allows our interns to spend their…

Internships

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Meet the Interns —  Summer 2020
Meet the Interns —  Summer 2020
Internships

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Aug 7, 2020

Preventing Zoom crashers with homemade IoT

How I built a Slack controlled lamp to minimize accidental Zoom guests By now, if you have a home office, this must have happened to you. Your partner/roommate/children must have office-crashed right in your important presentation. This has happened to me, more than once, I admit. After the third time…

IoT

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My IoT Availability jar
My IoT Availability jar
IoT

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Nextdoor Engineering

·Oct 28, 2019

R3 2019: 48 hours to Reflect, Refine and Reinvent Nextdoor

R3 is an annual event to Reflect, Refine and Reinvent Nextdoor. R3 goes beyond a hackathon by being more of an idea-thon. Everyone in the company, from engineers to sales to Neighborhood Operations, gets together to reimagine our product. We asked some folks why R3 is important to Nextdoor: “R3…

Startup

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R3 2019: 48 hours to Reflect, Refine and Reinvent Nextdoor
R3 2019: 48 hours to Reflect, Refine and Reinvent Nextdoor
Startup

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Nextdoor Engineering

·Sep 25, 2019

What is the technology behind Nextdoor in 2019?

(this post is adapted from an earlier article: https://engblog.nextdoor.com/what-is-the-technology-behind-nextdoor-5b74b3efcc31) On a typical day at Nextdoor, we are: Deploying to production 12–15 times Inserting billions of rows to our Postgres and DynamoDB tables Handling millions of user sessions concurrently Adding new neighborhoods to Nextdoor (over 247,000 neighborhoods worldwide) Getting ready or…

Nextdoor

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What is the technology behind Nextdoor in 2019?
What is the technology behind Nextdoor in 2019?
Nextdoor

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May 2, 2019

What Are SSH Fingerprint Randomarts and Why Should I Care?

You probably have seen this somewhere while playing with open ssh. These cryptic characters are called Randomart Images taken from What is randomart? So why is this interesting to us? Well lets suppose you have a long list of keys… like the one at your servers ~/.ssh/known_hosts/ and you…

Ssh

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Ssh

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May 2, 2019

San Francisco, The Koi Pond

If you’ve ever been to San Francisco and are observant enough, you’ve likely seen these small orange fishes everywhere. The Koi fish. According to Japanese legend, there was once a particularly determinded Koi fish. Despite the warnings of all the other koi fish in his pond, this heedless little fish…

San Francisco

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San Francisco, The Koi Pond
San Francisco, The Koi Pond
San Francisco

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Feb 2, 2018

Rubyists: remember you’re not Google, and you’re not Basecamp either.

Rails is probably the best thing that happened to Ruby, but it can also be holding it back. Hiring Freezes, Javascript Sprinkles, Majestic Monoliths, will work great for you, if you happen to be Basecamp. These strategies require a specific Work Culture, Product and Engineering skillset to be properly executed. …

Ruby

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Ruby

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Aug 10, 2017

5+ Awesome women in tech and the things I learned from them

1. Sarah Mei: Writing code is not the only way to help Open Source Railsbridge is a 1.5 day workshop that helps women to learn how make their first “Hello World app”. I’ve met dozens of engineers who got their start on one of these workshops and I’m sure there are hundreds more. Railsbridge is demonstrating that the talent is out there, they…

Women In Tech

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5+ Awesome women in tech and the things I learned from them
5+ Awesome women in tech and the things I learned from them
Women In Tech

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Jun 14, 2017

Programa de Mentores en Café de Hola

¡Hola! Eres estudiante, profesionista y/o emprendedor interesado en platicar con expertos en Silicon Valley? Si es así, bienvenido a Café de Hola! Una ves registrado, cada mes te mandaremos invitaciones para tener Office Hours con Venture Capitalists, Emprendedores e Ingenieros trabajando en Tesla, Airbnb, Twitter, que te pueden ayudar a lograr tus metas. Si estas interesado, tan solo llena este formulario para que te registremos en nuestro Slack y coordinemos las reuniones.

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Café De Hola

·Apr 30, 2017

Invitación a Café de Hola

Bienvenido a Café de Hola, donde reunimos a Emprendedores, Estudiantes y Profesionistas con Expertos Mexicanos dirigiendo o colaborando en empresas líderes del Silicon Valley y San Francisco. Cada semana te mandaremos una invitación para tener Office Hours con uno de nuestros mentores. La dinámica de este programa es la siguiente: Llena este formulario con tus datos e intereses. (Los Datos serán solo usados con fines de Matchmaking)

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Gonzalo Maldonado

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