Archive
2019
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Posted by Rachana Kumar on February 1, 2019
Executing a Sunset
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Posted by Mike Fisher on January 7, 2019
Why Diversity Is Important to Etsy
2018
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Posted by Kevin McHale on November 14, 2018
boundary-layer : Declarative Airflow Workflows
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Posted by David Schott on November 7, 2018
Double-bucketing in A/B Testing
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Posted by Daniel Schauenberg on October 23, 2018
Capacity planning for Etsy’s web and API clusters
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Posted by Paul-Jean Letourneau on October 10, 2018
Etsy’s experiment with immutable documentation
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Posted by Callie McRee and Kelly Shen on October 3, 2018
How Etsy Handles Peeking in A/B Testing
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Posted by Danielle Grenier on September 26, 2018
How Etsy Localizes Addresses
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Posted by Nishan Subedi on July 12, 2018
Modeling User Journeys via Semantic Embeddings
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Posted by Toria Gibbs on June 5, 2018
Deploying to Google Kubernetes Engine
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Posted by Brad Greenlee on May 29, 2018
The EventHorizon Saga
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Posted by Patrick Cousins on April 12, 2018
Sealed classes opened my mind
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Posted by Jeffery Campbell on February 15, 2018
Culture of Quality: Measuring Code Coverage at Etsy
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Posted by Mike Fisher on January 4, 2018
Selecting a Cloud Provider
2017
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Posted by Michael MacDougall on December 11, 2017
VIPER on iOS at Etsy
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Posted by Kevin Gessner on November 30, 2017
How Etsy caches: hashing, Ketama, and cache smearing
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Posted by Will Gallego on May 30, 2017
Reducing Image File Size at Etsy
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Posted by Sasha Friedenberg on May 15, 2017
How Etsy Ships Apps
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Posted by Mohit Nayyar on May 1, 2017
Modeling Spelling Correction for Search at Etsy
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Posted by Andy Yaco-Mink and Omar on January 31, 2017
How Etsy Manages HTTPS and SSL Certificates for Custom Domains on Pattern
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Posted by Daniel Marks, Bill Ulammandakh and Sungwan Jo on January 25, 2017
Optimizing Meta Descriptions, H1s and Title Tags: Lessons from Multivariate SEO Testing at Etsy
2016
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Posted by John Allspaw on November 17, 2016
Etsy’s Debriefing Facilitation Guide for Blameless Postmortems
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Posted by Jason Shen on November 16, 2016
How Etsy Uses Code “Slush” to Manage Development During the Holidays
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Posted by Stefanie Schirmer on November 8, 2016
API First Transformation at Etsy – Human aspects & developer adoption
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Posted by Russ Taylor on November 4, 2016
Building a Better Mobile Crash Analytics Platform
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Posted by Bill Ulammandakh on October 25, 2016
SEO Title Tag Optimization at Etsy: Experimental Design and Causal Inference
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Posted by Toria Gibbs and Ian Malpass on October 19, 2016
Being an Effective Ally to Women and Non-Binary People
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Posted by Stefanie Schirmer on September 26, 2016
API First Transformation at Etsy – Operations
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Posted by Ken Lee and Kai Zhong on September 15, 2016
Introducing 411: A new open source framework for handling alerting
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Posted by Stefanie Schirmer on September 6, 2016
API First Transformation at Etsy – Concurrency
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Posted by Toria Gibbs and Ian Malpass on August 10, 2016
Recommended Reading for Allies
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Posted by Natalya Hoota, Allison McKnight and Kristyn Reith on April 28, 2016
Q1 2016 Site Performance Report
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Posted by Aditya Bhargava on April 19, 2016
How Etsy Formats Currency
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Posted by Duncan Gillespie and Ben Russell on March 22, 2016
Building a Translation Memory to Improve Machine Translation Coverage and Quality
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Posted by Ryn Daniels on February 22, 2016
Putting the Dev in Devops: Bringing Software Engineering to Operations Infrastructure Tooling
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Posted by Kristyn Reith on February 12, 2016
Q4 2015 Site Performance Report
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Posted by Arylee McSweaney on February 8, 2016
Quality Matters: The Benefits of QA-Focused Retros
2015
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Posted by John Goulah on December 21, 2015
Leveling Up Your Organization With System Reviews
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Posted by Andrew Johnson on December 16, 2015
Introducing Arbiter: A Utility for Generating Oozie Workflows
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Posted by Adam Saponara on November 20, 2015
Crunching Apple Pay tokens in PHP
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Posted by Mike Adler on November 10, 2015
Q3 2015 Site Performance Report
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Posted by Andrew Johnson on September 24, 2015
Managing Hadoop Job Submission to Multiple Clusters
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Posted by John Goulah on September 15, 2015
Assisted Serendipity – Fostering Peer to Peer Connections in Your Organization
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Posted by Fiona Condon on August 31, 2015
How Etsy Uses Thermodynamics to Help You Search for “Geeky”
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Posted by Giovanni Fernandez-Kincade on July 29, 2015
Targeting Broad Queries in Search
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Posted by Kristyn Reith on July 13, 2015
Q2 2015 Site Performance Report
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Posted by Daniel Schauenberg on July 9, 2015
Open Source Spring Cleaning
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Posted by Andrew Johnson on May 12, 2015
Four Months of statsd-jvm-profiler: A Retrospective
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Posted by Dan Miller on April 6, 2015
Experimenting with HHVM at Etsy
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Posted by Kristyn Reith on March 30, 2015
Q1 2015 Site Performance Report
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Posted by Jayson Paul on February 20, 2015
Re-Introducing Deployinator, now as a gem!
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Posted by Bucky Schwarz on February 17, 2015
The Art of the Dojo
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Posted by Eli Reisman on February 11, 2015
Sahale: Visualizing Cascading Workflows at Etsy
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Posted by Allison McKnight and Natalya Hoota on February 9, 2015
Q4 2014 Site performance report
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Posted by Russ Posluszny, Jason Huff, Jessica Harllee, Justin Donato and Diana Mounter on February 5, 2015
Rebuilding the Foundation of Etsy’s Seller Tools
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Posted by Dan Na on February 2, 2015
Transitioning to SCSS at Scale
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Posted by Kelly Norton and Lara Hogan on January 27, 2015
Announcing Hound: A Lightning Fast Code Search Tool
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Posted by Andrew Johnson on January 14, 2015
Introducing statsd-jvm-profiler: A JVM Profiler for Hadoop
2014
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Posted by Allison McKnight, Natalya Hoota and Lara Hogan on December 22, 2014
Q3 2014 Site Performance Report
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Posted by Dan Miller on December 22, 2014
We Invite Everyone at Etsy to Do an Engineering Rotation: Here’s why
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Posted by Lara Hogan on December 11, 2014
Make Performance Part of Your Workflow
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Posted by Shikhar Bhushan on December 4, 2014
Juggling Multiple Elasticsearch Instances on a Single Host
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Posted by Robert Hall on November 17, 2014
Personalized Recommendations at Etsy
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Posted by Andrew Johnson on September 30, 2014
Building A Better Build: Our Transition From Ant To SBT
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Posted by Mike Brittain on September 25, 2014
Expanding Diversity Efforts with Hacker School
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Posted by Kellan Elliott-McCrea on September 10, 2014
Come find Etsy at Velocity NY 2014
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Posted by Yash Parghi on August 20, 2014
Teaching Testing: Our Testing 101 Materials
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Posted by Lara Hogan on August 1, 2014
Q2 2014 Site Performance Report
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Posted by Ian Malpass on July 18, 2014
Just Culture resources
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Posted by Lara Hogan on July 15, 2014
Calendar Hacks
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Posted by Gabrielle Gianelli on July 7, 2014
Threat Modeling for Marketing Campaigns
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Posted by Corey Benninger on June 24, 2014
Device Lab Checkout – RFID Style
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Posted by Laurie Denness on June 19, 2014
Opsweekly: Measuring on-call experience with alert classification
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Posted by jattenberg on June 18, 2014
Conjecture: Scalable Machine Learning in Hadoop with Scalding
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Posted by Ryan Frantz on June 6, 2014
Introducing nagios-herald
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Posted by Lara Hogan on May 15, 2014
Q1 2014 Site Performance Report
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Posted by Diego Alonso on April 3, 2014
Web Experimentation with New Visitors
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Posted by Kevin Gessner on March 13, 2014
Responsive emails that really work
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Posted by Nassim Kammah on February 28, 2014
Etsy’s Journey to Continuous Integration for Mobile Apps
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Posted by Lara Hogan on February 19, 2014
Reducing Domain Sharding
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Posted by Lara Hogan on January 23, 2014
December 2013 Site Performance Report
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Posted by Akiva Leffert on January 15, 2014
Static Analysis with OCLint
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Posted by Deniz Veli on January 13, 2014
Android Staggered Grid
2013
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Posted by Ryan Frantz on October 16, 2013
Migrating to Chef 11
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Posted by Lara Hogan on October 14, 2013
September 2013 Site Performance Report
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Posted by Ryan Frantz on September 28, 2013
Nagios, Sleep Data, and You
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Posted by Jayson Paul on September 23, 2013
LXC – Automating Containers aka Virtual Madness (Part 2)
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Posted by Jayson Paul on September 23, 2013
LXC – Running 14,000 tests per day and beyond! (Part 1)
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Posted by Amy Dyer on September 11, 2013
Improving Etsy for iOS with server-based logging
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Posted by Lara Hogan on August 9, 2013
Etsy’s Device Lab
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Posted by Daniel Schauenberg on August 2, 2013
Infrastructure upgrades with Chef
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Posted by Zane Lackey on July 16, 2013
Reducing The Roots of Some Evil
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Posted by Lara Hogan on July 11, 2013
June 2013 Site Performance Report
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Posted by Rasmus Lerdorf on July 1, 2013
Atomic deploys at Etsy
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Posted by Abe Stanway on June 11, 2013
Introducing Kale
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Posted by Mike Arpaia on June 4, 2013
Leveraging Big Data To Create More Secure Web Applications
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Posted by Ian Malpass on May 31, 2013
Culture Hacking With A Staff Database
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Posted by John Goulah on April 23, 2013
At Percona MySQL Conference This Week
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Posted by Lara Hogan on April 9, 2013
March 2013 Site Performance Report
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Posted by John Allspaw on April 1, 2013
Re-Exploring New Technologies: The Turbo Encabulator
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Posted by John Marc Imbrescia on March 26, 2013
There and Back Again: Migrating Geolocation Data to GeoNames
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Posted by Keyur Govande on March 19, 2013
Data Corruption To Go: The Perils Of sql_mode = NULL
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Posted by Avleen Vig on March 18, 2013
Java: Not Even Once
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Posted by Jeff Kolber on January 11, 2013
Schemanator: Love Child of Deployinator and Schema Changes
2012
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Posted by Marcus Barczak on December 13, 2012
mctop – a tool for analyzing memcache get traffic
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Posted by Lara Hogan on November 29, 2012
Measuring Front-end Performance With Real Users
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Posted by Lara Hogan on November 9, 2012
October 2012 Site Performance Report
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Posted by Zane Lackey on October 9, 2012
Scaling User Security
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Posted by Zane Lackey on September 11, 2012
Announcing the Etsy Security Bug Bounty Program
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Posted by Marc Hedlund on September 10, 2012
The Engineer Exchange Program
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Posted by Laurie Denness on August 31, 2012
What Hardware Powers Etsy.com?
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Posted by John Allspaw on August 23, 2012
Posting PostMortems for a (generally) Non-Technical Audience
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Posted by Avleen Vig on August 13, 2012
Performance tuning syslog-ng
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Posted by Nick Galbreath on August 10, 2012
Static Analysis for PHP
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Posted by Arie Kachler on August 7, 2012
No more locks with Xtrabackup
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Posted by Nick Galbreath on July 19, 2012
Better Random Numbers in PHP using /dev/urandom
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Posted by Seth Walker on July 12, 2012
June 2012 Site Performance Report
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Posted by John Goulah on June 28, 2012
Is It A Bird? Is It A Plane? No, It’s Supergrep!
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Posted by Peter Seibel on June 21, 2012
Building websites with science
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Posted by Jason Davis on June 15, 2012
Intrinsically Motivated Full Stack Product Hacker
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Posted by jcarrafa on June 1, 2012
Navigating Etsy Support
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Posted by Nick Galbreath on May 24, 2012
Robots, Graphs, and Binary Search
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Posted by John Allspaw on May 22, 2012
Blameless PostMortems and a Just Culture
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Posted by Arie Kachler on April 20, 2012
Two Sides For Salvation
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Posted by Kellan Elliott-McCrea on April 5, 2012
Etsy Hacker Grants: Supporting Women in Technology
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Posted by Avleen Vig on March 30, 2012
Kernel Debugging 101
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Posted by John Goulah on March 16, 2012
Come have drinks with Etsy and Basho
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Posted by John Goulah on March 13, 2012
Making it Virtually Easy to Deploy on Day One
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Posted by Laura Beth Denker on March 12, 2012
Scaling CI at Etsy: Divide and Concur, Revisited
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Posted by Kellan Elliott-McCrea on March 7, 2012
Going to SxSW? Checkout All Girl* Dev Brunch 2012
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Posted by Nick Galbreath on March 4, 2012
Google Safe Browsing without The Browser
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Posted by Chad Dickerson on February 13, 2012
The Etsy Way
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Posted by Kellan Elliott-McCrea on February 1, 2012
Upcoming, Etsy Engineering Near You
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Posted by Kellan Elliott-McCrea on February 1, 2012
Code as Craft Speaker Series: Rasmus Lerdorf, this Thursday
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Posted by David Giffin on January 23, 2012
Turbocharging Solr Index Replication with BitTorrent
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Posted by Andrew Morrisson on January 4, 2012
The Product Hacking Ecosystem
2011
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Posted by Diego Alonso on December 5, 2011
Translation Memory
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Posted by David Bernal and Lacy Rhoades on December 2, 2011
Multilingual User Generated Content and SEO
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Posted by John Goulah on December 2, 2011
Moving from SVN to Git in 1,000 easy steps!
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Posted by John Goulah on November 30, 2011
Etsy at LISA Conference
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Posted by Jason Davis on November 9, 2011
Engineering Social Commerce
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Posted by Aaron Beppu on November 7, 2011
Etsy at Hadoop World
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Posted by Laura Beth Denker on November 4, 2011
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2011
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Posted by Eric Bogs on October 21, 2011
Localizing Logically for a Global Marketplace
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Posted by Corey Losenegger on October 19, 2011
Teaching Etsy to Speak a Second Language
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Posted by John Goulah on October 13, 2011
Removing Barriers to Going Fast
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Posted by Laura Beth Denker on October 11, 2011
Did you ‘try’ it before you committed?
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Posted by Eric Bogs on October 8, 2011
Internationalizing Etsy: Fostering a Global Marketplace
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Posted by Kellan Elliott-McCrea on September 28, 2011
Scaling Etsy: What Went Wrong, What Went Right
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Posted by stunji on August 15, 2011
Etsy at Photo Hack Day!
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Posted by Chad Dickerson on July 31, 2011
Passing the engineering torch
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Posted by stunji on July 26, 2011
Hacking Hardware with Etsy
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Posted by Kellan Elliott-McCrea on July 25, 2011
We are at OSCON!
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Posted by Steve Mardenfeld on July 8, 2011
Shop Centricity – A Case Study
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Posted by Marcus Barczak on June 21, 2011
Object Oriented CSS with Nicole Sullivan: Thursday June 23
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Posted by Chad Dickerson on June 6, 2011
Optimizing for developer happiness
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Posted by Kellan Elliott-McCrea on June 1, 2011
Pushing: Facebook, Flickr, Etsy
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Posted by Noah Sussman on April 20, 2011
Divide and Concur
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Posted by Kellan Elliott-McCrea on April 1, 2011
Upcoming Etsy Engineering Talks
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Posted by Chad Dickerson on March 31, 2011
Live stream of “Moving Fast at Scale”
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Posted by Chad Dickerson on March 23, 2011
Douglas Crockford at Etsy Speaker Series, April 27
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Posted by Chad Dickerson on March 19, 2011
Moving Fast at Scale: the slides, and a reprise in NYC
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Posted by Chad Dickerson on March 1, 2011
Moving Fast at Scale: a microconference at SXSW
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Posted by Ian Malpass on February 15, 2011
Measure Anything, Measure Everything
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Posted by Chad Dickerson on February 4, 2011
How does Etsy manage development and operations?
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Posted by Jason Davis on January 25, 2011
Mining Facebook for Gifts on Etsy
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Posted by John Goulah on January 10, 2011
Introducing Getsy, A Secure Command Line Interface to the Etsy API
2010
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Posted by Mike Brittain on December 8, 2010
Tracking Every Release
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Posted by stunji on November 16, 2010
Etsy Handmade Code Contest Winners
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Posted by Liz Wald on October 29, 2010
Handmade Code Contest Update–Finalists have been selected!
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Posted by Randy Hunt on October 21, 2010
You Can’t Fake Real
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Posted by Noah Sussman on October 5, 2010
Sebastian Bergmann (author of PHPUnit) at Etsy on October 7
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Posted by Liz Wald on September 21, 2010
Etsy API Handmade Code Contest: Update #2 – Judging is happening!
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Posted by John Allspaw on September 17, 2010
Frank Talk About Site Outages
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Posted by Chad Dickerson on July 16, 2010
Kellan Elliott-McCrea joins the Etsy team
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Posted by Mike Brittain on July 9, 2010
Batch Processing Millions and Millions of Images
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Posted by Dan McKinley on July 9, 2010
Etsy is Hiring
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Posted by John Allspaw on July 3, 2010
MongoDB at Etsy, Part 2
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Posted by Chad Dickerson on June 8, 2010
Fred Brooks (author of Mythical Man-Month) at Etsy on June 14
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Posted by Chad Dickerson on June 1, 2010
Join us for Etsy SF cocktails and crafting (June 10)
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Posted by Erik Kastner on May 20, 2010
Quantum of Deployment
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Posted by Dan McKinley on May 19, 2010
MongoDB at Etsy
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Posted by stunji on April 22, 2010
Announcing Etsy’s New API
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Posted by Jason Davis on February 24, 2010
Analyzing Etsy’s data with Hadoop and Cascading
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Posted by Chad Dickerson on February 17, 2010
Dev / ops cooperation
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Posted by Chad Dickerson on February 10, 2010
Code as craft