@EngAtBirdie

The Ups, downs and general musings of the engineering team at Birdie. Birdie is a software platform that allows the elderly to age independently at home.

Joined October 2022
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Another article from our engineering department, this time about how we've audited our design system for accessibility: medium.com/engineering-at-bi… #accessibility #design

Want to know how we audited our Design System for Accessibility?

At Birdie, one of our values is “We care”. We care about our society, the people we work with and for, the planet and the ways in which we…

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Another article from our Engineering department. This time @Marin_Gdt shares the tremendous improvements he was able to make to our developer experience when working with our React Native mobile app! medium.com/engineering-at-bi… #reactnative

From Hours to Minutes: Making older React Native Apps easy to set up

How we went from hours, sometimes days, to less than 5 minutes to setup an engineer’s React Native development environment by using EAS

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A good workshop for identifying testing strategies! philippe.bourgau.net/a-compl…

A complete workshop for your team to see what’s a good test strategy

Software teams often disagree about what is a good test strategy! So here is a whole-team workshop to agree on names for the different kinds of software tests and capture current practices. After...

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Another week, another nugget of literary knowledge from our engineering department! This time our superb DevOps engineer Harry Morgan is holding our hand through the chaotic world of disaster recovery. medium.com/engineering-at-bi… #devops #SoftwareEngineering

Disasters & Platform teams — How to deliver applications you can be confident in.

No one likes to think about the worst case scenario.

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Great read dissecting the core principles behind microservices and they're use-case blogs.newardassociates.com/b…
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Birdie's engineering department is bringing in the new year with some good old-fashioned sleuthing! Debugging Postgres isn't for the faint of heart! Luckily, our senior staff engineer @WilliamDCLT is happy to share his tips and tricks!!! medium.com/engineering-at-bi… #databases

Puzzling Postgres: a story of solving an unreproducible performance issue

Going down the rabbit hole of query plans and prepared statements

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In this new article from our engineering department, @thecrimpmaster outlines the structures we've put in place to ensure our developers are always developing themselves! medium.com/engineering-at-bi… @BirdieCare #learninganddevelopment #softwaredevelopment

Introducing structure and support for career development at Birdie

If, like me, you’re a fan of 80s synth pop bangers and professional growth, then I think you’ll agree with me and The Korgis when we say…

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This looks cool! sst.dev/
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More jewels of wisdom from our engineering department. This time we're letting people in on how we manage to query monstrous amounts of data! medium.com/engineering-at-bi… #data #scaling

Want to know how we query an incredible amount of data?

Building scalable systems for an ever-growing dataset

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We love this new course by @dan_abramov!!! justjavascript.com/ #javascript
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Here is an article from Hyosun Lee, a new intern at Birdie. We want to do whatever we can at Birdie to support those entering this industry and that starts with listening to the experiences of those doing so! medium.com/engineering-at-bi… @BirdieCare #womenintech #WomenInSTEM

What I learnt as an Intern at Birdie

I joined Birdie as an intern software engineer last July and it has been amazing so far, so I wanted to share my experience.

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Real-time analytics and data transformation at an enterprise scale. Seems pretty cool! kinetica.com/

Kinetica — Query anything. Answer in milliseconds.

Kinetica is the real-time, GPU-accelerated database for AI and analytics — vector search, time-series, geospatial, and graph in one engine that answers in milliseconds.

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It's got more twists than a soap opera 🤣 xitter.cf/tomgara/status/1587640…
Tom Gara
@tomgara2 Nov 2022
It’s pretty simple: Google Meet (original) was previously Meet, which was the rebranded Hangouts Meet. Meet has been merged with Google Duo, which replaced Google Hangouts. Google Duo has been renamed Meet, and Meet has been temporarily named Google Meet (original), for clarity
A common critique of distributed systems is the toil behind monitoring them. There are lots of great insights in this article about doing so! copyconstruct.medium.com/dis… #microservices #SoftwareArchitecture

Distributed Tracing — we’ve been doing it wrong

Distributed Tracing is often considered hard to deploy and it’s value proposition considered to be questionable at best. A variety of…

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Another insightful read from the Birdie engineering department. This time from our senior engineer @emmamitchinson on how RFCs (Requests for Comment) allow you to explore, justify and document your technical decisions in a collaborative fashion! medium.com/engineering-at-bi…

Stop writing bad documentation… Write RFCs instead.

They’re not just a request for comment, but a request for collaboration and communication.

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Streaming FTW infoq.com/presentations/ml-c…

Streaming-First Infrastructure for Real-Time ML

Chip Huyen discusses the state of continual learning for ML, its motivations, challenges, and possible solutions.

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"This is the first class-action case in the US chal­leng­ing the train­ing and out­put of AI sys­tems. It will not be the last." theverge.com/2022/11/8/23446…
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😂 xitter.cf/jdegoes/status/1588182…
John A De Goes
@jdegoes3 Nov 2022
Functional programming has a new champion. 😆
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It's so cool when products have "pro" user features, they're the easter eggs that keep on giving! xitter.cf/KittyGira…
Kitty Giraudel@KittyGiraudel3 Nov 2022
I just remembered Slack supports sed-like syntax to edit a message. 🤯 For instance: /s/great/amazing/ would replace the word “great” by “amazing” in the last message. 🔥
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