Excited to share more about my journey so far at Abnormal, and why I made the choice to join this team :)
Software engineer Tanooj Parekh joined Abnormal because of "the people, the technological challenges we need to solve, & the opportunity to be on the ground floor of a fast-growing company with an amazing network of engineers and leaders." Read his story: abnormalsecurity.com/we-are-…
Twitter's Ads services grew over time to become monolithic and slowed down development velocity. Over the last 1.5 years, we've worked to rebuild our stack, with a platform-first approach. Happy to discuss our approach and the trade-offs we described in this blog!
Learn how our Revenue Platform team re-built Twitter's Ad Platform Architecture for the future.
blog.twitter.com/engineering…
Part 2 of the platform rebuild blog - kudos @cdharini and @_pawanv!
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Our Revenue Platform team decomposed Twitter's monolithic AdServer. Learn how (and why) we did it. blog.twitter.com/engineering…
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There's a saying that writing software is more like tending a garden than constructing a building -- things constantly change.
But the more I learn about how buildings evolve, I think this process is actually a perfect analogy for designing software!
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It's my ten year anniversary at AWS, I got a new badge and everything! To celebrate, I'm going to tweet out the lightning talk I gave at last week's Amazon dev con. It's all about my favorite thing from my ten years: Shuffle Sharding!
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‘It's never "just an if statement." Each branch of logic in your code compounds with the existing branches of logic.’
Worth a read. Too true..
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This is the story of literally every piece of software ever created. Seemingly innocuous and inconsequential decisions have implications that last for years. The lesson to be learnt is - Be deliberate in everything you build, and question everything that exists.
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Today we're launching the new Twitter.com! So many inspiring people worked on this 2-year project, and we learned so much. I want to share our learnings with the world, so I asked my teammates: What's the most valuable thing you learned while building the new site? 👇
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Twitter’s ad server operates at immense scale to match, rank, and deliver high quality ads in real time. Learn about recent upgrades in our latest blog post, written by the Revenue Science team!
blog.twitter.com/engineering…
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I wrote "The Silent Meeting Manifesto v1" - a full guide to Silent Meetings... check it out👇
Use Silent Meetings. Make everyone’s day better. Make meetings suck a little less.
medium.com/@gascasf/the-sile…
So many software design learnings here - How engineering disasters are often death by a thousand tiny cuts, and information flow in a distributed system (of teams, even) is crucial. This is a eye opening post mortem. nytimes.com/2019/06/01/busin…
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Would any engineering leaders in SF area be interested in come chat with Stripe's engineering management team on any given Wednesday? Pretty casual format, good questions, strong sparkling water selection, etc.
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Here's a video of a Chimpanzee using Instagram. It's eye-opening. instagram.com/p/Bwf080_Bfby/
You cannot make this stuff up!
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if you were or are the friendly gent (blue coat) who was in the shop half an hour ago and left a big jar of bees on the table in the poetry section, please come back and reclaim your jar of bees. if you aren't, please rt until we find him #FindTheBeeGent
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Danny Ocean describes Facebook's ambitious new messaging strategy.
See theverge.com/2019/1/25/18197…
#oceans11 #facebook #messaging #whatsapp #Instagram