msaspence

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by msaspence 9mo ago
Location: San Diego, CA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Possible within CA Résumé: https://msaspence.com Email: msaspence@gmail.com Technologies: Node.js, Typescript, JavaScript, react, Python, Rails, R
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Leadership: Navigating Conflict(medium.com)
1 points by msaspence 2y ago|1 comments
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by msaspence 2y ago
What makes you think that AI is going to produce leaner codebases? They are trained on human codebases. They are going to end up emulating that human code. It's not hard to imagine some improvement here, but my gut is there just isn&#x
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Leadership: Force Multiplication(medium.com)
3 points by msaspence 4y ago|1 comments
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by msaspence 4y ago
Or more simply, the one key question all leaders should judge themselves by.
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by msaspence 4y ago
> "move stuff around and complexity will magically go away" fallacy This is a great description of microservices
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by msaspence 4y ago
I love the idea of "managing junior level programmers who don't know how to make loosely coupling architecture" as describing engineering leadership, regardless of how cynical it is. I do question how microservices manage tha
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You Don't Need Microservices(medium.com)
113 points by msaspence 4y ago|165 comments
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by msaspence 4y ago
Why the monolith should remain the default choice for new, small, and medium-sized engineering teams. Considering how we can leverage the monolith to realize the benefits that microservices claim for themselves.
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by msaspence 10y ago
> This translates in extremely high customer acquisition costs So you've just traded in marketing cost for server costs...
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by msaspence 11y ago
Its easy to see how you can calculate segments, retention and trends using user sets, but how do you calculate funnels.
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by msaspence 11y ago
How does that then affect your cost efficiency. What clever things are you doing with this to keep your costs so low? I guess we'll find out in a future post.
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by msaspence 11y ago
How do you decide what sets of users you pre aggregate? It seems like without some limits in place you could end up with huge number of sets, especially if you are calculating these based on event properties.
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by msaspence 12y ago
What are you studying? Could it not be argued to be part of your studies if you are doing a computer science course of some description?
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Hacking Tinder for Local Knowledge(msaspence.svbtle.com)
1 points by msaspence 12y ago|0 comments
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by msaspence 12y ago
"Shut up and take my money!" PLEASE CHARGE MONEY for this, as great as the stuff you have up looks already I can't help think how much more time and energy you could devote to this if your were charging a small subscription s
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by msaspence 13y ago
The key word (that is admittedly missed from the title) is "blindly": 'blindly applying "agile shock therapy" or introducing Kanban will only suck you further into the abyss'. Which is a bit of truism: do anyth
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by msaspence 13y ago
Your stack should be whatever will allow you to test your assumptions the quickest. For a lot of cases this will be whatever you are most familiar with. There will be some cases where a piece of tech you haven't used before simply offe
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by msaspence 13y ago
I'm confused by the necessity for this? If you use the integration code demonstrated in their docs here: https://mixpanel.com/help/reference/javascript , Mixpanel already has an event queue natively. It sets t