Code as Craft, Etsy's Engineering Blog

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Apr 5, 2017	Etsy doesn’t want ‘cultural fit’	Be careful how you ask an Etsy engineer what kind of person is a “cultural fit” for working at the publicly traded, peer-to-peer ecommerce icon. “We’ve found that phrase allows a lot of unconscious bias to creep into the hiring process,” sa...
Jul 28, 2016	Etsy’s engineering spirit	Etsy is widely viewed by the mainstream as a niche marketplace where hippies and hipsters alike sell their handmade goods for people as weird as them (a painting of Ol’ Dirty Bastard and Macho Man Randy Savage at a birthday party, anyone?)....
Apr 20, 2016	The Dark Launch: How Google & Facebook Release New Features	Have you ever wondered why some of your friends get to see the latest Facebook messenger or Gmail upgrade before you do? Why do some people get to play with the newest features weeks before others? And, why do these features sometimes disap...
Apr 20, 2016	The Dark Launch: How Google & Facebook Release New Features	Have you ever wondered why some of your friends get to see the latest Facebook messenger or Gmail upgrade before you do? Why do some people get to play with the newest features weeks before others? And, why do these features sometimes disap...
Oct 12, 2015	A Half-Century Later, We Can’t Forget Conway’s Law	Guest author Sarah Novotny is a technical evangelist and community manager for Nginx. A wise person once said that you build what you know, and you know what you build. While these weren’t the exact words uttered by computer programmer Melv...
Apr 6, 2015	IPO-bound Etsy shows how HHVM has boosted its data center efficiency	Etsy has become a major player in online retail, having racked up 54 million members and more than $108 million in annual revenue. So a whole lot is riding on the company’s underlying technology infrastructure. Today Etsy — which is expecte...
Jan 22, 2015	It takes more than great algorithms to make personalization work	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Thanks to growing interest in big data and machin...
Jan 22, 2015	It takes more than great algorithms to make personalization work	Thanks to growing interest in big data and machine learning, the number of good reads on the algorithms behind personalization has grown exponentially (Etsy’s November 2014 post on its personalized recommendations methods immediately comes ...
Jan 9, 2015	Everyone at Etsy gets to push some code	Etsy goes way out of its way to be inclusive. Inclusivity isn’t just about the diversity of your staff. It’s also about helping people in different wings of the building understand each other better. In a compelling post on Etsy’s dev blog,...
Oct 23, 2014	How truly responsive images create a web for everyone: Mat Marquis	Mat Marquis told a remarkable story from YouTube in the opening of his talk at Etsy about what’s to come in responsive images. He told a story that Chris Zacharias, a former developer there, had shared on his blog. Zacharias accepted a pers...
Aug 11, 2014	Etsy has shifted to TLS security sitewide	If you go to Etsy now, you may notice that every single page starts with an “https://” rather than an “http://”. Based on a post on Etsy’s Code As Craft blog, it sounds as if this is a fairly recent change — one that makes the site more sec...
Jul 14, 2014	Most ideas are bad, so embrace ‘continuous discovery’: Marty Cagan	Once an early-stage company finds its business model, the push for customer acquisition often turns its team toward optimization, losing its “innovation” focus. So warns Marty Cagan, the latest speaker who Etsy’s Code as Craft crew has brou...
Apr 29, 2014	How Etsy Turned Into A Gadget Paradise	Popular online marketplace Etsy this month acquiredGrand St., a handmade technology marketplace that previously billed itself as the “Etsy for electronics.” The purchase could be seen as a branching out moment for the crafty commerce site, ...
Apr 22, 2014	With a new $12M, Electric Cloud continues to power automated software iteration	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Creating and delivering software doesn’t seem to ...
Apr 22, 2014	With a new $12M, Electric Cloud continues to power automated software iteration	Creating and delivering software doesn’t seem to be enough anymore. As software companies face fiercer and fierce competition, they need to iterate on their products quickly, efficiently, and with minimal disruptions. Electric Cloud has bee...
Mar 10, 2014	Continuous delivery is a killer advantage for companies that want to move fast without breaking things	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Call it the need for speed. When it comes to deli...
Mar 10, 2014	Continuous delivery is a killer advantage for companies that want to move fast without breaking things	Call it the need for speed. When it comes to delivering software, today’s business climate has three prerequisites for success: speed, agility, and innovation. While multi-year, expensive, and bloated software initiatives were once a realit...
Aug 16, 2013	System Down! An Application Outage Survival Guide	A major system outage is every business’s worst nightmare, especially if you rely on applications to generate revenue. Depending on the scale of the outage this can be a very expensive problem—eCommerce stands to lose millions in sales for ...

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