Rebase is one of git’s most powerful features. Most-commonly used to rewrite history by squashing related commits, and…
A story of how leaving your laptop unlocked can lose the entire morning.
This post is a warning to the dangers of forgetting to lock your laptop in an environment where:
Posted by Julien Letessier on Monday, March 27, 2017
We had an incident yesterday. It wasn’t that bad as incidents go, but it got me really worried — it’s something that has the potential to become much worse as we move towards a distributed, multi-service…
Posted by Michael Groble on Monday, March 13, 2017
We’re not particularly proud that we are still using Rails 3.2, but we are extremely proud of scaling our traffic over the last few years. Our new services are built in Rails 5, but we still have a hefty chunk of…
Posted by Julien Letessier on Thursday, January 19, 2017
Counting unique users, checking if a credit card has already been used, or checking if this is a mobile user’s first visit ever — all of these require maintaining a large set of…
Posted by Julien Letessier on Monday, September 19, 2016
Split testing is a cornerstone of how we improve our products. While we usually run such tests for user-visible interface changes, this is an example of running a…
