Justin Smestad
@jsmestad
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Senior Staff Engineer @ Shopify
Bozeman, MT
Joined April 2008
Finishing Alexandrescu’s Modern C++ Design and realizing you have to write React components at work tomorrow
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Kubernetes migration almost killed our startup. Where we were: - 8 EC2 instances - Ansible for deploys - Boring but working - $1200/month AWS bill Why we migrated: - New investor wanted 'cloud-native' - Engineers wanted K8s experience - Competitors were using it - Seemed like
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This isn't a Ruby vs. Go problem. It's an "we hired 50 engineers so let's split everything apart" problem. Here's what happens: Company grows fast. Leadership comes from Big Tech. They bring their playbook. Split the app into pieces. One piece per team. Everybody owns
At a past company, the head of engineering and the principal engineers decided to break our Ruby on Rails application into a Go microservices mesh. They created very detailed design documents and architecture diagrams. They went all out and used Kubernetes, gRPC, service
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Matt Levine’s summary of the AMD / OpenAI deal is hilarious
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The amount of time it took to perfect this must have been astronomical
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What makes @elixirlang great for startups? The biggest problem most startups face is trying to find product/market fit. The key to discovering product/market fit is rapid iteration. You need to build, measure, and adapt quickly based on customer feedback. Ruby on Rails
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A photographer captures a moment of a squirrel smelling flowers 🌻🐿️ 📸: Dick van Duijn
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So glad The Onion is back for this top notch election coverage! 🤣
Thanks Jeff Lawson for buying the Onion so we could get this great zoom in on electoral coverage. No other news source has gone to this level of detail. https://t.co/dxU3kSb0ph
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I feel like this may prove to be the most prescient cartoon of the 21st century.
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