TimothyFitz

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Continuous Deployment at IMVU: Doing the impossible fifty times a day.(timothyfitz.wordpress.com)
172 points by TimothyFitz 18y ago|73 comments
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by TimothyFitz 18y ago
It turns out the system works fine with SQL based alters. We do have to do real work to deploy expensive alters (apply them to standbys, fail over, repeat, or worse) but in general it's cheap to change schemas. Unfortunately, it's very manu
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A Global Approach to Optimization(aegisknight.livejournal.com)
1 points by TimothyFitz 18y ago|0 comments
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by TimothyFitz 18y ago
You're right. If everyone behaves the way they do with larger deploy cycles even after moving to an extremely short deploy cycle then you would have lots of downtime. The point wasn't that it solves downtime, but that it causes you to more
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by TimothyFitz 18y ago
What we implement is much closer to this suggestion. We move the code out to a couple machines from each of our different web frontend servers. After a minute we compare before and after across numerous metrics (load average, cpu, errors, p
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Continuous Deployment: just ship your code to customers as often as possible(timothyfitz.wordpress.com)
16 points by TimothyFitz 18y ago|15 comments
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by TimothyFitz 18y ago
I was really surprised to read that every employee had access to profit margin data. Kudos to Wal-Mart for a level of decentralization and transparency many startups and high tech companies don't even achieve!
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Rock Out With Your Dock Out(jassmith.wordpress.com)
1 points by TimothyFitz 18y ago|0 comments
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by TimothyFitz 18y ago
Read more about webhooks http://webhooks.pbwiki.com/ and http://www.slideshare.net/progrium/web-hooks-and-the-program...
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Amazon gets clever with web hooks(blog.webhooks.org)
2 points by TimothyFitz 18y ago|1 comments
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by TimothyFitz 18y ago
Micropayments + virtual goods & streaming music rights: http://imvu.com
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by TimothyFitz 18y ago
Yeah, TortoiseGit being hosted in SVN seems ironic. Perhaps they're waiting for it to be stable enough to dogfood before switching to Git?
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by TimothyFitz 18y ago
Damn. If I weren't deliriously happy with where I am, I'd consider applying just because you said "mean level of seriousness"
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by TimothyFitz 18y ago
To contrast, Unununium was intended to use python to make rapid prototyping of novel userland functionality a reality. Pycorn looks like it's primarily a teaching tool. Both are cool conceptually.
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Numbers That Go Up(glyph.twistedmatrix.com)
3 points by TimothyFitz 18y ago|0 comments
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A hierarchy of pitches (how to pitch your startup)(startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com)
9 points by TimothyFitz 18y ago|0 comments
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The Engineering Managers Lament (Time/Quality/Cost paradox)(startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com)
25 points by TimothyFitz 18y ago|9 comments
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Hosted Continuous Integration (The future of Agile)(runcoderun.com)
6 points by TimothyFitz 18y ago|5 comments
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Memagent memcache proxy: consistent hashing and replication without client library support(code.google.com)
3 points by TimothyFitz 18y ago|0 comments
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Startup Metrics for Pirates (AARRR)(500hats.typepad.com)
3 points by TimothyFitz 18y ago|0 comments
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Data trumps the HiPPO (Highest Paid Poisitions Opinion)(exp-platform.com)
10 points by TimothyFitz 18y ago|1 comments
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by TimothyFitz 18y ago
I wouldn't mind a placebo downmod. Just to get those feelings out.
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by TimothyFitz 18y ago
This idea has (IMO) a better name, WebHooks, and a standard place for discussion about the issues and tools around the concept: http://webhooks.pbwiki.com/ XMPP unfortunately ends up being the "heavyweight" solution; there's probably a de
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by TimothyFitz 18y ago
The functionality is already a jump over everyone else in this space. Forget graphical issues; do a real usability study. Then start funneling ad traffic to the site and start A/B testing more usable interfaces (aka don't take my word for i
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by TimothyFitz 18y ago
But that's exactly the point. You can be MORE lazy. You spend so much more time than you realize testing and re-testing your own code... doing monkey-level QA! Stop doing all that work. Be more lazy. Write your tests first!
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10 Things I Learned From Startup School(nickpeters.net)
8 points by TimothyFitz 19y ago|0 comments