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Building Stripe's API 28 Feb 2013 | 01:00 pm
Last week, I gave my first conference talk at the API Strategy and Practice conference in New York. Pretty exciting! I thought it would be interesting to talk about Stripe's API, particularly lessons...
Private methods in Ruby 21 Dec 2012 | 01:00 pm
Consider the following code: (This blew my mind the other day.) You would expect that this would work fine: private_hello is a private method, but it's being called from within the class. Nope. I ...
Discount Code Cards 31 Oct 2012 | 11:00 am
I love career fairs. In college, I loved going to career fairs to get swag—EECS majors are definitely ridiculously spoiled when it comes to getting free things like shirts and food (I even got a poker...
Goodbye, Wordpress! 10 Sep 2012 | 05:46 am
As you may or may not have noticed, this blog has recently undergone a pretty drastic change. Aside from pure design upgrades, I've moved off Wordpress (good riddance!) and joined the geek bandwagon b...
Elasticsearch Space-savers 19 Mar 2012 | 01:13 pm
After setting up ElasticSearch, you’ll be faced with the task of optimizing your index configuration for speed and for size. There are millions of documents in our index, and, for performance, it’s i...
Elasticsearch Space-savers 19 Mar 2012 | 05:13 am
After setting up ElasticSearch, you'll be faced with the task of optimizing your index configuration for speed and for size. There are millions of documents in our index, and, for performance, it’s im...
Real-time Search with MongoDB and Elasticsearch 16 Mar 2012 | 10:15 am
Something I worked on a couple of weeks ago at Stripe was overhauling the entire search infrastructure. If you’ve ever used the search feature in manage, it may have appeared sluggish or may have even...
Real-time Search with MongoDB and Elasticsearch 16 Mar 2012 | 02:15 am
Something I worked on a couple of weeks ago at Stripe was overhauling the entire search infrastructure. If you’ve ever used the search feature in manage, it may have appeared sluggish or may have even...
2012 CS Resolutions 4 Jan 2012 | 06:43 pm
Matt Might’s “What every computer science major should know” article is fantastic. I regret not reading this article in the beginning of the holiday break, but I guess I can use this as sort of a “201...
2012 CS Resolutions 4 Jan 2012 | 09:43 am
Matt Might's "What every computer science major should know" article is fantastic. I regret not reading this article in the beginning of the holiday break, but I guess I can use this as sort of a "201...
