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by philipkimmey 4y ago
It feels like a very minor upgrade. The only thing that seems improved is that transparency mode seems closer to true “transparency” but it’s a relatively subtle improvement.
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by philipkimmey 5y ago
I would suggest a deeper scan of the site for copy editing - there’s at least one mention of “diary” when “dairy” is clearly intended. (I’d probably wait for more usage and supporting evidence before trying something like this, but the pros
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by philipkimmey 5y ago
Well, thought I’d share my personal experience and the focus areas of our platform engineering team, since the DevOps/SRE definitions are more-or-less correct. I’ve seen Platform Engineering take various different forms, but it’s curre
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by philipkimmey 5y ago
Fairly common practice for Postgres setups is to sit pgbouncer ( https://www.pgbouncer.org/ ) between your app process and your Postgres instance. Connection setup/tear-down is cheap in MySQL but expensive in Postgres.
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by philipkimmey 5y ago
Splunk and datadog
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by philipkimmey 5y ago
Not sure exactly what you’re looking for, but here are the key bits and pieces: - uwsgi - Python - Django - Docker - k8s Then the bits and pieces outside of the Python stack itself - - MySQL and Postgres - memcached - redis - RabbitMQ
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by philipkimmey 9y ago
Rover.com | Sr. Software Engineer | Seattle | Full-time, Onsite We believe that everyone should be able to experience the unconditional love of a dog. That’s why Rover’s innovative platform makes it easy for pet owners to connect with 5-sta
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Why MKMapView and UITableView don't play nice(engineering.rover.com)
1 points by philipkimmey 9y ago|0 comments
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by philipkimmey 9y ago
Rover.com | Sr. Software Engineer | Seattle | Full-time, Onsite We believe that everyone should be able to experience the unconditional love of a dog. That’s why Rover’s innovative platform makes it easy for pet owners to connect with 5-sta
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Optimizing Webpack: An Adventure(engineering.rover.com)
3 points by philipkimmey 9y ago|0 comments
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Making Django Upgrades Easy(er)(engineering.rover.com)
10 points by philipkimmey 9y ago|0 comments
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by philipkimmey 12y ago
30-50m for ./manage.py migrate seems way too long. Are you collapsing your migrations? Unless you need to maintain multiple production environments with different versions of your software you should be doing so with some regularity.
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Speeding Up Django Test Runs by Optimizing Factory Boy(roverdotcom.github.io)
4 points by philipkimmey 12y ago|0 comments
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by philipkimmey 12y ago
# ~ # ~ # ~ # ~ # ~ # ~ # ~ # ~ # ~ # ~ # ~ # ~ # ~ # ~ # ~ # ~ # ~ # Rover.com - SEATTLE Let's make a checklist... 1. You love dogs. Check, we got that => https://www.rover.com/rovercam/ 2. You want in on t
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by philipkimmey 13y ago
Indeed - I've talked a sitter on Rover who was planning on listing their profile in NYC as a traveling sitter as a way to get a free stay in the city, while also watching someone's home & dog.
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Rover, A "Dogbnb" Site, Raises $3.5M And Nabs Commercial Promotion From Petco(techcrunch.com)
7 points by philipkimmey 13y ago|4 comments
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by philipkimmey 13y ago
While Silicon Valley is no doubt a unique place, it's odd to follow the quote: "We don’t have billion dollar Internet companies with the likes of Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon." With a discussion only of Silicon Val
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by philipkimmey 13y ago
I'd say so... The rails community is generally larger than the Python community (at least in web-specific stuff), and there are tons of .NET folks due to Microsoft.
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by philipkimmey 14y ago
We were using PGSql at the beginning of this project, but I was lured by the automatic backups / restore capabilities that RDS provides and I migrated. One of my co-workers used to pound on PGSql pretty hard in a very high traffic environme
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by philipkimmey 14y ago
Rows, not columns. But more so than really large tables, I find MySQL will tip over even on smaller tables, not very hot tables, if I want to do the work without downtime. (It may well just be my environment, but it is fairly standard RDS o
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by philipkimmey 14y ago
I'm curious to hear what people are currently doing. I used to inline the CSS as more of a onetime build-step type thing, but found it to be a real pain. The main downside to this approach is rendering is quite slow, but emails should proba
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CSS Inlining for Emails in Django (django-inlinecss)(github.com)
1 points by philipkimmey 14y ago|1 comments
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by philipkimmey 14y ago
Having South take that leap into Django core will be awesome. I'll bet one natural result of it entering core will be better shared understanding of best practices & foibles of different backends. Managing migrations on increasingly lar
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by philipkimmey 14y ago
I'd love to see St Louis start to develop a tech startup scene. Low cost of living, really cool neighborhoods and lots of smart programmers at stodgy big companies. It seems like the city just needs some capital & a few experienced tech
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by philipkimmey 14y ago
Excited? Definitely. Not sure about knowledgeable. ;)
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by philipkimmey 14y ago
Nope - it's not that, though we did come out of a Startup Weekend! (It was the June 2011 one hosted at Amazon's new buildings in South Lake Union.)
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by philipkimmey 14y ago
We're definitely excited about this and ready to shake up a giant market. And we're looking for more solid developers. If you love dogs and want to talk about software (We're all on a Django stack) send us a quick introduction to tech-jobs@
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Rover.com: Raises 3.4m in Series A(techcrunch.com)
1 points by philipkimmey 14y ago|0 comments
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by philipkimmey 15y ago
I totally agree - having no standards around common problems (like how to deal with tests once they get too big for a single tests.py) is extremely inconvenient.
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by philipkimmey 15y ago
Sounds like you're describing what we're building! (www.rover.com) That's exactly what we want to facilitate. Tons of people would be willing to watch your dog overnight, but there's no easy way for them to do so. We're in Seattle for now,

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