April 2011
5 posts
Gilt Technologie: Managers, stay out of the way! →
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Successful managers learn how to stay out of the way and let their teams work effectively and independently. Staying out the way doesn’t mean putting your feet up on your desk and playing Angry Birds on your iPad while your team does all the hard work. It means creating an environment where…
How SmugMug survived Amazonpocalypse →
Here’s an awesome read on how SmugMug survived Amazon’s outage last week. Loved this passage from the blog posting:
“We’ve known for quite some time that SkyNet was going to achieve sentience and attack us onApril 21st, 2011. What we didn’t know is that Amazon’s Web Services platform (AWS) was going to be their first target, and that the attack would render many popular...
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At CodeConf, I gave a quick lightning talk about one of the products of our recent Hackathon.
It turns out, naming things is really hard (one of the two hard things in computer science). When we went to name our project, pressed for time, we went for the most topical thing we could think of at the time. Thus, charlie_sheen_service was released to production at about 1 am.
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Gilt Technologie: Presentation: Building a... →
Great presentation by Eric S. on building a JS framework here at Gilt.
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Slides and video from Eric Shepherd’s presentation given at Gilt HQ and at the Brooklyn JavaScript Meetup:
Summary
For modules to function within a large-scale system and on third-party sites, they need to be self-contained units with minimal dependencies. They also need to keep their hands off…
