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GDS Design Principles and “Digital Services” 2 May 2013 | 07:37 pm
The UK Government Digital Services has published their Design Principles last summer. It’s a great read. And if you’ve already read it, it’s still a great resource to reflect on. These are principles ...
How do we get to mobile web applications? 20 Dec 2012 | 10:38 am
Anyone who has had a conversation with me for more that 3 minutes about mobile knows that I’ve been a big proponent for the mobile web for years. I believe that mobile web apps have been held back by ...
Mobile and Web Performance at Etsy 29 Oct 2012 | 10:18 pm
Over the past two years, I’ve been running a few teams in engineering that deal with Software Infrastructure — that layer of frameworks, services, and developer tools that “sits” right next to Operati...
Velocity Conference 2012 23 Jun 2012 | 11:32 am
Slides and code examples from the two talks I’m giving at Velocity this year will be available here. Building Resilient User Experiences A Picture is Worth 1,000 Logs Code samples from this talk ar...
On Dedicated Performance Teams 2 May 2012 | 02:55 am
Earlier this year, I gave another talk about Web Performance at Etsy for the NY Web Performance meetup. One of the points we stress on my team is that while we have a dedicated performance team, the p...
My Two Upcoming Talks at Velocity 2012 30 Apr 2012 | 04:17 pm
I’m looking forward to speaking at Velocity Conf this summer on two very different topics: Building Resilient User Interfaces Large-scale sites are complex systems, where every page is likely genera...
Metrics-Driven Engineering at Etsy 20 Mar 2011 | 10:11 am
Last weekend Etsy put on a mini tech conference outside of SxSW, Moving Fast at Scale. Etsy has been growing fast. When I started last February, we had about 20 engineers. Today we have somewhere arou...
SysAdmin Appreciation Day in NYC 30 Jul 2010 | 10:54 am
There is a meetup being planned in NYC (at The Gingerman) for SysAdmin Appreciation Day tomorrow night (July 30). As it turns out, Etsy is picking up the tab. This is one of the really wonderful thi...
EC2 Hosting Architecture, Two Years Later 13 Jul 2010 | 02:21 pm
It’s been nearly two years to the day since I wrote my post about the hosting platform I setup on EC2. The post still gets plenty of traffic and this week I was asked if it was still valid info. I t...
How do you use the word “millions” at work? 10 Jul 2010 | 04:58 pm
I published my first blog post on Etsy’s engineering blog today: Batch Processing Millions and Millions of Images.
