Code as Craft

Sebastian Bergmann, author of PHPUnit, will be visiting Etsy this Thursday, October 7th. He’ll be giving a talk on the State of PHP Quality Assurance, including an overview of PHP code quality and static analysis tools. PHPUnit is the test harness of choice for PHP developers all over the world. It has great support for […]

(Note: this post is a largely non-technical discussion about technical issues. It’s mainly written for the shoppers and sellers on Etsy, but I’m posting it on our engineering blog because I think engineers might be interested.) The other night we had an outage. Put frankly: outages suck. They suck for shoppers, and sellers, and they […]

Kellan Elliott-McCrea (blog, Twitter) will be joining us at Etsy on Monday as VP of Engineering, here at Etsy HQ in beautiful Brooklyn (where Kellan currently lives). Kellan is awesome, and I couldn’t be happier to have him on the team at Etsy! Kellan comes to us from Flickr, where he was architect and the […]