PostHog's open source suite of product tools now includes performance monitoring in session recordings - see not only what your users are doing, but also how long each action takes!
tl;dr: Tech debt is compared to financial debt in a blog post, highlighting the distinction between high-interest shortcuts and low-interest strategic decisions, while emphasizing the importance of managing debt within defined limits and evaluating its impact on the project's sustainability.
tl;dr: “Although still rare in the industry, companies like Netflix and Shopify let employees choose how much of their total compensation is stock. What are the approaches to take?”
tl;dr: Tests are run when one user interaction with your product impacts how others use it. “Suppose Slack wants to improve the usage of a new video calling feature. Improving the feature's discoverability for a single user will increase their own usage with it, but since they use it with their coworkers, their coworkers will also discover it.”
tl;dr: (1) Pressure: “The more pressure you take, the more pressure you will get.” (2) Not taking enough risks: “The biggest risk is not taking any risk… in a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
“A key principle of any effective software engineering, not only reliability-oriented engineering, simplicity is a quality that, once lost, can be extraordinarily difficult to recapture.”
tl;dr: "The technical challenge we faced was developing a system that could understand and interpret the visual characteristics of images to provide accurate search results. By leveraging advanced computer vision algorithms and machine learning techniques, we were able to bridge the gap between textual queries and visual preferences, revolutionizing the way users discover and explore items on eBay."
tl;dr: “You may have heard a joke that the internet is a series of tubes. In this blog post, we’re going to talk about how we get a cool, refreshing stream of Airbnb.com bytes into your browser as quickly as possible using HTTP Streaming.”
tl;dr: As an engineer at an early-stage startup you need to wear a lot of different hats. Some days it's about focusing on coding; on others, it could be about focusing on designing features and defining the work for contractors. Read this post to learn more about how a developer leverages Faros AI to make their job easier.
tl;dr: “Software trends towards higher abstractions. You can do more with less. Not only do developers never need to touch hardware anymore, but they might not even need to interface with public cloud providers and might opt to use developer-friendly middlemen. That means less code to write. Less code to write means a narrower range of skills needed to get started. This lowers the barrier to entry.”
tl;dr: “This article uses deep reinforcement learning to generate efficient sorting algorithms. The authors highlight the computational bottleneck faced when optimizing algorithms using traditional methods and introduce AlphaDev, a learning agent trained to search for correct and efficient algorithms.
