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Pair Programming & "top notch programmers"

Pair Programming & "top notch programmers"

Gnip [http://www.gnip.com/] is hiring again [http://www.gnip.com/company/jobs] so the flood of recommendations/resumes/suggestions has begun. Gnip's a pair programming shop which means there are two developers for every CPU in the office, and two developers sit side by side, day

Testing 1, 2, 3

Gnip received a request to go over how we "test." I hope the following is useful. While we don't practice TDD (Test Driven Development) outright, I'd consider us in that vein. We are test heavy, and many of our tests are written before the

Gnip: What's worked well, and what hasn't.

Gnip's almost a year old. That combined with a great week which included a stellar board meeting, technical clarity around specific areas, business/requirements clarity around specific areas, and an impending big release motivated this blog post. We have built an amazing back plane that's driving

Anatomy of a shared memory node failure.

After my previous post about teams [/teams-rookies-vets], I quickly received several requests to provide more details. Voici! Gnip's redundant; you can walk up to any of our cloud instances, vaporize it, and Gnip chugs along its merry way. We use shared memory (via TerraCotta) to replicate memory across

Teams, Rookies & Vets

Teams, Rookies & Vets

A week ago, almost to the minute, the following message was generated by an internal Gnip monitoring server, and sent to the person on-call. ** PROBLEM alert - production-head2/production-head2-gnip is CRITICAL ** It was the start to a very long, non-stop, few days at Gnip. Much of the rapport on your

Job Applicant Rejection

Gnip [http://gnipcentral.com/] has a lot of candidates applying for various roles we're hiring for [http://gnipcentral.com/jobs.html], and that means lots of applicants won't make the cut; simple law of averages (not to mention a high bar). That means I have the

Gnip 2.0, and feeling good.

Posts like this are not my style, but I can't contain this one. Last night around 10pm MDT we released Gnip 2.0. In the past 15 hours, we've gotten the following public feedback from our users (engineers), speculators, technologists, and various media. This feels.... good.

What matters in a career, a company, and a Product.

What matters in a career, a company, and a Product.

This post started as an internal email, but I realized I should post it here for would-be Gnip [http://gnipcentral.com/] applicants, and for anyone who may want some insight into how my brain works. I consider myself one of Earth's luckier human residents. My post-University career started

Gnip is hiring.

Gnip [http://gnipcentral.com] is looking for a few new engineers to join our team; checkout our job posting here [http://gnipcentral.com/jobs.html]. We've got a great product going already, with phenomenally positive, and voluminous, public response, but we need to get more functionality into the

Gnip's Head is in the Clouds

Our transition to AWS / Ec 2 is complete. It's been a fascinating three weeks of porting. Last night, we internally deployed Gnip to several Ec 2 instances. Our current partners are still on the "old Gnip " which is hosted at a traditional managed hosting environment, but

Gnip Gnop & Abuse

Gnip Gnop & Abuse

Brad [http://www.feld.com/] swung this by my desk the other day; thanks man! It's an original Gnip Gnop game by Parker Brothers. Notice any resemblance to Gnip's logo [http://www.gnipcentral.com/]? I'm particularly enjoying the condition the game is in; it&

GNIP's official!

TechCrunch published our funding [http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/14/mybloglog-founder-to-launch-new-startup-gnip-with-1-million-in-funding/] scenario earlier today. Eric Marcoullier [http://www.marcoullier.com/blog/] has done a super-human job of pulling this thing together and getting it off the ground, and I'm stoked to be working with him! Things have