
Office of the CTO @Citadel. Ex Cloud Infrastructure @Airbnb, @PoloDataClub, @GeorgiaTech. Opinions are that of your employer.
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Andy Fang retweeted
At @Airbnb, while we appreciated the flexibility of Ruby on Rails earlier on, it absolutely became unsuitable at scale (both traffic and organizationally) and we had to work miracles while replacing much of it with java microservices.
Gotta love the pivot from "it doesn't scale" to "you can't write real systems without types" as the new ding-dong argument against dynamically-typed languages like Ruby (and vanilla JavaScript and Smalltalk and...). rubyonrails.org
cc @AngerMCS where have I seen that number before 🤔
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Andy Fang retweeted
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Andy Fang retweeted
I have translated and added subtitles to the latest video speech by Vladimir Putin from two hours ago. Please don’t let it go in vain - I want everyone to see what a speech of true fascism looks like.
No further comment needed, it’s all here, in his speech
Never been the biggest Musk fan, yet “But I’ll talk about this after the war.” fills me with tears in a way I can’t explain. ❤️
Talked to @elonmusk. I’m grateful to him for supporting Ukraine with words and deeds. Next week we will receive another batch of Starlink systems for destroyed cities. Discussed possible space projects 🚀. But I’ll talk about this after the war.
Andy Fang retweeted
This is really funny. Now that Apple has left Russia, Apple Maps has put Crimea back in Ukraine
Andy Fang retweeted
People are booking Airbnbs in Ukraine they don’t intend to stay in just to help Hosts
ITT: Bolt lets employees place highly leveraged bets on their (already under-diversified bc they work there) investments. No value judgements on leverage - all the power to you - but I’m not sure calling it “employee-friendly” is exactly the best.
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this is the worst timeline
U.S. intelligence officials on Tuesday accused Zero Hedge, a conservative financial news website with a significant US readership, of amplifying Kremlin propaganda and alleged five media outlets targeting Ukrainians have taken direction from Russian spies.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Andy Fang retweeted
Today I am reminded of that internal email centithread from 2011 about whether eng interview candidates should be dinged for not knowing what stdout is, since it’s irrelevant since everything is web now.
Anyway so Java log libraries make RPCs
Andy Fang retweeted
Amazon came in almost $2 billion below revenue expectations because you all did your part and turned off your unused EC2 instances.
I want you all to know I'm very proud of you.
pay 10 dollars to...
escape to san francisco??
by... following some one on a scooter???
(scooter rental not included???)
am i the one out of touch here????


























