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22 Feb 2021

During an incident, when error and latency graphs start trending downwards, you should start writing down everything in your mind right then …

09 Nov 2020

Data Processing in Repls In Wednesday’s FISH, Spencer showed us how he could run Drone CI on Replit by forking repls through the API. He’d …

08 Nov 2020

Evolve Ruthlessly There comes a point in a startup’s life, if it lives long enough, when its creators look around and say “we need to get …

06 Nov 2020

Throwaways When I was working on recommendations at Spotify, all the cool new ideas started as throwaway playlists that someone made on …

27 Oct 2020

Drawing the Line(s) Of course my post on postmortems drew forth a stretch of incidents, the worst of which stemmed from sudden influxes of …

29 Sep 2020

Post mortems We had a post mortem triple-header yesterday. It took all of forty minutes. We don’t strive to have incidents, nor do we strive …

25 Sep 2020

Side hustle update It’s only natural, once you start simplifying, to ask “what if we go all the way?” Right now we’re focused on reducing …

24 Sep 2020

What fix-it-up projects look like at the beginning In the last week and a half, we’ve set out to simplify Repl.it and make it more stable. …

23 Sep 2020

Append and check At Repl.it we put as many tools as we can into slash commands on Slack. It makes it really easy for everyone to see what …

02 Sep 2020

Drive It’s always tempting to have grand thoughts on a long drive. The world seems so vast! You have nothing else to do! Same thing on a …