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Excuse my ignorance, but who is this and why is it interesting that he's working for Etsy?

• deleted 15y ago
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• edragoev 15y ago
  Avi Bryant is the original creator of Seaside - an acclaimed Smalltalk Web framework. He was active in the Ruby community. The company he co-founded was acquired by Twitter. Then he worked in Tumblr ... So in a nutshell he is well known in the startup world. Or at least this is my impression.. .
• sebphfx 15y ago
  He's the original co-founder of Seaside, the Smalltalk framework. He then went to work on a startup called DabbleDB and at Twitter. He's like the Steve Albini of the tech world. Really brilliant guy. He also gave a talk that was called "Rails is obsolete(so's everything else)" in 2010 I think.Check out his talks here: http://blog.redtexture.net/2010/10/30/avi-bryants-presentations/#Avi%20Bryant%27s%20Presentations http://blog.redtexture.net/2010/10/30/avi-bryants-presentati...
  • smokinn 15y ago
    He also gave a good talk titled Bad Hackers Copy, Great Hackers Steal http://vimeo.com/4763707 http://vimeo.com/4763707
  • pragmatic 15y ago
    Ok, who is Steve Alibini? (I know who is is, b/c I looked him up, but he is anything but a household name).
• michaelochurch 15y ago
  My interaction with him is limited, but he's really sharp and a very nice guy in my experience. He's responsible, at least in some part if not mainly, for Twitter's adoption of Scala.
  • avibryant 15y ago
    That's much broader than the truth: what I can claim credit for is Twitter's adoption of Scala for Hadoop jobs (and the Scalding framework that resulted from that). Scala services were already in heavy use at Twitter long before I got there.
• pragmatic 15y ago
  Came here to ask the same question. The name is familiar. It might help to put in the link Avi Bryant, Creator of Seaside, joining Etsy.