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This might not help you, but it might help someone earlier in their career. I was born, raised and studied in South Africa. Living costs and salaries are cheaper. I worked in Calif…

You want to replicate as much as possible, but if we ran canary on the same machines we could have testing code bring down production. That's bad.

We actually have a traffic replica (dark client) setup for the new webserver architecture we are gradually migrating to. It likely would have caught this before deploying to users.…

We have very comprehensive dashboards. Getting the perfect ones that help in all cases, while not being information overload (the problem here) and being discoverable is a hard, it…

We have talked about it. It is unlikely to helped with an event like this, and I don't recall an event where it would have. It also has the downside of extending our deployment cyc…

When you do daily deployments, you can't QA every one much. You rely on automated tests and Internal users using the new code for a couple hours before the deployment. We were unlu…

We will never out individuals. The person who committed the code was innocent. We got him a fun gift as a sort of joke.

Every response from our users so far has been thanking is for the transparency. It also represents our internal transparency, and that has a real impact on recruiting.

We do, but it didn't help given the cause of the high cpu was our logging infrastructure (Amazon Kinesis) being overloaded by the webservers.

Correct. We don't roll out during peak load either.

This was the first time we had this class of outage. Many things were in a very bad state, and many of these symptoms were more familiar to us. So we spent time ruling them out bef…

I work at Asana. There's no way we'll drop our free plan. It's too fundamental to our sales model. We are, however, thinking a lot more actively about what features to make premium…

Perf is our #1 priority right now. We've had a big team tackle the fundamentals for the last two years, and we're rolling things out in the coming months. I'm personally leading th…

I think it requires a company email? I can't recall. They also have a verification window, reviews don't post for a couple days.

That happened when someone noticed we were ranked #1 in the Bay Area and announced it to the company. Employees followed with more reviews.

Sam is investing personally, not YC.

At Asana, we've been beta testing Kinesis Firehose. It's been quite convenient not having to manage much, and having the data end up in S3. We're also using Kinesis streams, and ha…

They likely get a good deal, but either way their content licensing costs are huge in comparison and make their Amazon bill a drop in the ocean.

We did long ago, but ditched that idea because we get to use the tools of JS and we realised that effectively using a DSL embedded in another language allows the developer to break…