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Hopefully, at this point, you see where I’m going with this. What I’ve concluded, based on experience, is that positioning your project as an alternative implementation of something is a losing proposition. It doesn’t matter how smart you are. It doesn’t matter how hard you work. The problem is, when you build an alternative implementation, you’ve... See more
The Alternative Implementation Problem
Using feature flags
It's always a good idea to put new features behind a feature flag.
This contributes to a rollout strategy that can surface user feedback in a much more contained and safe environment.
When thinking about how to rollout a new feature to users, first think about your peers. Many of the Resend team members also use Resend on their... See more
It's always a good idea to put new features behind a feature flag.
This contributes to a rollout strategy that can surface user feedback in a much more contained and safe environment.
When thinking about how to rollout a new feature to users, first think about your peers. Many of the Resend team members also use Resend on their... See more
How we ship new features · Resend
How to build this skill:
- Maximize what you can do on your own: by ruthlessly prioritizing your time, pushing back on activities that have small ROI, and focusing on areas where your input is crucial; for engineers, it often means less coding (if more junior people can do that piece of coding).
- How you can maximize what you can do through others:
3 Critical Skills You Need to Grow Beyond Senior Levels in Engineering
To make life for developers easier, be explicit in what exactly is being returned. In the Stripe API, we have an object field in the response that makes it abundantly clear what we’re working with. For example, the API route
/v1/customers/:customer/payment_methods/:payment_method
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returns a PaymentMethod... See more
/v1/customers/:customer/payment_methods/:payment_method
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returns a PaymentMethod... See more
Common Design Patterns at Stripe
- Terraform Providers: Terraform is primarily used for defining the infrastructure resources. Its strength lies in its vast collection of providers that offer standardized ways to interact with various cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.) and on-premises infrastructure. These providers are essentially plugins that understand the specific APIs and
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Coz: Finding Code that Counts with Causal Profiling
by Charlie Curtsinger and Emery Berger
Coz is a profiler for native code (C/C++/Rust) that unlocks optimization opportunities missed by traditional profilers. Coz employs a novel technique called causal profiling that measures optimization potential. It predicts what the impact of optimizing code... See more
by Charlie Curtsinger and Emery Berger
Coz is a profiler for native code (C/C++/Rust) that unlocks optimization opportunities missed by traditional profilers. Coz employs a novel technique called causal profiling that measures optimization potential. It predicts what the impact of optimizing code... See more
plasma-umass • GitHub - plasma-umass/coz: Coz: Causal Profiling
- Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library designed for handling long-lived network connections. It is built to be non-blocking and uses an event loop to manage all operations. While Tornado itself does not rely on a thread pool for its core operations, it provides interfaces for integrating with thread pools (e.g.,
Saverio Mazza • FastAPI: Thread Pool and Event Loop
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A single field tells us in plain language what the status of the object is by using enums instead of booleans. Another upside is the extensibility and future-proofing that this technique gives us. If we go back to our previous example of adding a “pause” mechanic,... See more
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A single field tells us in plain language what the status of the object is by using enums instead of booleans. Another upside is the extensibility and future-proofing that this technique gives us. If we go back to our previous example of adding a “pause” mechanic,... See more
Common Design Patterns at Stripe
factory_boy
factory_boy is a fixtures replacement based on thoughtbot's factory_bot.
As a fixtures replacement tool, it aims to replace static, hard to maintain fixtures with easy-to-use factories for complex objects.
Instead of building an exhaustive test setup with every possible combination of corner cases, factory_boy allows you to use objects... See more
factory_boy is a fixtures replacement based on thoughtbot's factory_bot.
As a fixtures replacement tool, it aims to replace static, hard to maintain fixtures with easy-to-use factories for complex objects.
Instead of building an exhaustive test setup with every possible combination of corner cases, factory_boy allows you to use objects... See more