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The Psychology of Testing by Miško Hevery (Jan. 18, Palo Alto)
On January 18, 2011, at 6pm, Wealthfront in Palo Alto, Calif. will host the 3rd talk in our “Lean Startup for Geeks” series: The Psychology of Testing by Miško Hevery. Miško is a well-known agile coach with many contributions to the open-source world such as AngularJS, the Testability Explorer, and the js-test-driver. After a short… Read more
Lean Startup for Geeks at Wealthfront: Miško Hevery on the Psychology of Testing
On January 18, 2011, at 6pm, Wealthfront will host the 3rd talk in our “Lean Startup for Geeks” series. We will be welcoming Miško Hevery, a well-known agile coach with many contributions to the open-source world such as AngularJS, the Testability Explorer, and the js-test-driver. Miško, who has inspired countless engineers to test effectively, will… Read more
IRC bots for Laziness, Impatience, and Continuous Deployment
1988 was an epic year. Not only were the movies “Die Hard”, “Coming to America” and “The Naked Gun” released, but according to Wikipedia, IRC was invented. A tried-and-true technology, constantly reincarnated in similar (perhaps inferior?) forms, IRC is a superb communications hub for a company because it affords so many things: Everyone can chat… Read more
Continuous Deployment talk at Yahoo! Large Scale Production Engineering (LPSE)
Last night I gave a talk at the Yahoo! Large Scale Production Engineering (LPSE) meetup. They said I had about 20 minutes to talk about continuous deployment at Wealthfront so I went fast, but there were at least another 20 minutes of questions so I was happy to oblige! Thanks to Chris Westin of Yahoo!… Read more
Evolve or die: Start-ups and “Dealing with Darwin”
It’s that time of the month again. Endless conversations about the product roadmap, planning, priorities and resources. “We’re accumulating too much technical debt,” says the CTO, “we badly need some time to work on magic-refactoring-XYZ.” The product guy nervously answers a bit too quickly: “Are you forgetting about those killer-features-of-the-year we’ve been putting off?” “What… Read more
Stop wasting people’s time!
We enjoyed hosting Eric Ries, here at Wealthfront, for a great Lean Startup talk focusing on engineering. The event sold out pretty fast and was soon overbooked—we had lots of smart people coming in and talking about taking their engineering organization to the next step with methodologies like Continuous Deployment and looking into the real… Read more