Beyond Agile: Continuous Deployment Panel
Continuing our tradition of meetups at Wealthfront with industry leaders such as Eric Ries and Steve Blank, we would like to open a new series of meetups about advanced lean methodologies. On Thursday May 26 we will have a Continuous Deployment Panel, co-sponsored with IMVU here at Palo Alto. The moderator of the event will be… Read more
Watch my dev2ops video about Wealthfront’s engineering
Damon Edwards was kind enough to post his video of me giving my talk about Wealthfront at the dev2ops meetup at Box.net. Enjoy!
When all else fails, check the documentation
I ran into a bug in my code today because I didn’t implement clone in a class that needed it (it’s used for rescheduling a failed task). Naturally, I went to fix the code to make these errors impossible through the magic of Type Safety, but Java wasn’t playing fair. It turns out this doesn’t… Read more
Slides for my DevOps Talk at Box.net
Tuesday night I gave a talk at Box.net for the DevOps crowd. It was a lot of fun and folks seemed to enjoy it. Mostly it was about being a lean startup and the code we’ve written to stay lean. I’ve uploaded my slides to Slideshare if you’re interested: Scaling(?) at Wealthfront View more presentations… Read more
Dealing with Missing Data on the Frontend
What if you got an unexpected result from an ActiveRecord query? If it’s important for the current page, rendering a 500 is a good idea. If the data is being used for a non-vital section, it’s best to render the page without the section: @manager = Manager.find(params[:id]) rescue nil <div id=”sidebar”> <% if @manager.nil? %>… Read more
Ode to Textual Identifiers
Entities of a domain model are distinct from all other objects in their longevity. These objects are typically stored in a database, or a similar form of long-term storage, and need portable identifiers which can shared within a system, and beyond. Identifiers are essentially “handles to entities”, which can be passed around, in the same… Read more