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Yonas Beshawred

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Recent Tech Decisions

1532 points

Following

905

Free private repos

501

460

Free for side projects

348

41

Easy to add collaborators

188

Simple installation

86

Easy to scale and maintain 3rd party services

167

Know who your users are

704

Easy deployment

259

Smooth setup & ui

194

861

234

Consolidates similar errors and makes resolution easy

246

Really powerful

258

Free, widespread

141

1480

1248

19

One stop solution

111

It's available for many countries

194

Most known service

134

Consumers know it

432

Easy to work with

215

49

Simple grade system that motivates to keep code clean

70

Auto sync with Github

21

Hotspots for quick refactoring candidates

644

Quick and reliable cloud servers

484

Great community

100

56

301

33

A/B Testing Subject Lines

448

Great way to share

189

74

63

Full integration with webhooks

292

Developer friendly

8

Great customer support

34

248

149

Robust e-mail creation

591

492

40

15

14

608

364

445

191

Great documentation

347

716

Great for collaboration

572

123

Generous free allowance to get you started

225

Simple and reliable

40

Wordpress integration

515

480

Remote team collaboration

344

Really powerful

391

Easy management

248

Well-designed api

88

30

Broad feature set

1769

Open source friendly

169

3

3

Fully automated

269

328

215

Simple deployments

88

Customer support

67

114

1460

Easy source control

109

Custom templates

403

Comprehensive feature set

925

888

Data visualization

410

245

125

157

Compatible with other aws services

108

22

Community SDK involvement

175

Shared file hosting

261

Low devops skills required

237

154

Beginner friendly

1130

Great for team collaboration

120

Integrates with a lot of external services

79

Integration with external services

130

Integrated in many tools

133

Low learning curve

350

Plugins & themes

84

Snappy and blazing fast

375

81

Easy to find repos

55

374

Huge time-saver

38

Great customer support

414

70

Github integration

174

Add-ons for almost everything

4

Collaborative editing

150

Better for startups

66

Heroku Integration

107

In-app messaging as well as email

147

Desktop and mobile apps

456

276

169

626

159

Github integration

97

36

31

10

23

79

45

Works with lots of devices

95

128

33

47

Great for mailchimp users

15

Continued encouragement to a have better / cleaner code

179

10

58

37

51

27

441

Pull request and features planning

57

Very powerful API

62

170

Github integration

1211

Easy to integrate with

877

Excellent interface on multiple platforms

315

Flexible notification preferences

184

Strong search and data archiving

95

Super easy to implement

73

Modern search engine

40

Search analytics

124

46

30

Multiple datacenters

31

Designed to search records, not pages

71

Excellent support

70

Easy setup, fast and relevant

47

256

75

2

Huge updates at least once a month

41

116

18

26

847

2

Remote pair programming that's as easy as Google Docs

4

289

217

Right out of github

58

Easy to find projects

108

821

Rapid integration and build up

144

20

722

654

38

Least cost (free) for the basic needs case

688

505

Testability and reproducibility

25

Limit resource usage

31

Great Customer Support

17

14

517

18

18

Hipchat integration

65

Email, text & twitter alerts

25

119

Built with node.js

446

113

342

107

527

259

Unlimited trial

9

Remote pair programming for web development

120

Email Notifications

5

Guest and Restricted user control

22

Unread/read control

155

Multi domain switching support

12

Star for each message / attached files

17

Text snippet with highlighting

694

Mobile friendly

15

Quote message easily

61

Great customer support

224

Github integration

238

291

Simple bootstraping

805

610

17

Heroku Integration

48

Postgres hosting

24

Awesome documentation

690

People really enjoy using it

84

Slack integration

19

34

27

8

Very easy setup and highly customizable for your search

45

32

Out-of-the-box features

29

Easy and fast setup

32

No code for the backend

190

600

Programme friendly

116

Free Public Repos

110

486

652

30

Faster development

8

481

Convention over configuration

417

11

4

Easy implementation

60

123

99

Efficient background processing

198

73

11

Makes you a better coder

44

13

477

5

2

3

Cohort Segmentation

6

Great 3rd integration

2

Customizable Reports

10

Great Tutorials

61

66

147

Continuous deployment

11

Real-time analytics

7

Customer Profiles

305

Most widely-used web server

138

218

Virtual hosting

148

436

Enterprise class database

380

30

508

High availability

171

Great community

129

145

128

Secure by default

22

311

84

Great community

69

Mobile friendly

227

79

1262

350

89

605

Great community

344

850

Rapid development

649

270

Great libraries

260

106

349

86

Easy Database Migrations

26

62

14

Great community

17

41

Great Data Modeling

74

107

16

80

283

Great for startups

60

42

6

Simple installation

25

137

Cheap and simple

86

8

Easy to work with

6

Shared file hosting

660

395

943

158

281

957

Dom manipulation

641

593

138

Powerful one-liners

157

234

Meta-programming

107

Easy email integration!

12

368

1192

677

1576

778

383

You can't get a device today that doesn't run js

887

1136

Lots of great frameworks

736

1624

Can be used on frontend/backend

48

66

272

56

202

533

Quick to develop

488

Great community

563

760

436

124

Isn't an mvc framework

111

Explicit app state

459

126

Syntactic sugar

755

Relational database

846

1434

Distributed version control system

306

964

24

43

83

330

Great integrations

245

12

5

8

42

9

32

Git Powered Wikis

33

Developer Profiles

11

Subscriber Analytics

175

159

166

36

9

139

132

352

Development environments

10

3

3

Internet calling

6

High-availability

2

3

6

80

Backed by amazon

78

21

26

Binary streaming

430

467

40

Maintainability

299

112

Selector inheritance

467

608

96

411

11

Dropbox Integration

18

Developer Friendly

24

Built by developers for developers

38

MVC - Easy to start on

15

Natural companion for rails development

28

Very powerful foundational front-end framework

1058

Efficient branching and merging

81

53

Has everything you need to get the job done

241

50

Great community

411

375

168

19

457

91

466

HTML, CSS, and JS framework

76

75

696

Real-time stats

180

19

49

9

10

39

90

65

137

Fast object cache

76

4

Gmail integration

6

1

Full MVC profile

11

6

3

Great for production use

4

Shows you repeat db queries

8

Made by ember.js and rails core team members

15

Drag and drop attachments

7

Recognizes GitHub commit links

3

Widget stays out of your way

50

Super simple to schedule tweets

3

Re-buffer posts

4

Weekly analytics report email

6

23

Javascript plugins

1

Stripe Integration

2

6

Easy to setup and use

1474

It's everywhere

345

Easy formatting

128

High-performance

33

Distributed caching system

14

Works great with Flux Architecture

41

368

Great command-line application

19

Simple rollback

233

147

Backed by github

318

260

Scary smart community

9

10

2

Version history

2

12

Embedding videos, tweets, vines

34

Simpler markup language

24

68

Clean and simple

3

Embedded signup forms

194

206

25

28

The most important tool we use in production

13

1

Great replacement for Rapportive

1

Hover over email addresses anywhere

10

16

110

Because i have to :(

49

No html open/close tags

39

Easier to write than ERB

36

Forces clean and readable code

1

27

3

6

8

4

Ability to create templates

108

83

Slack integration

60

1

Offered by Redis Labs

188

416

284

Non-blocking i/o

40

280

22

30

Distributed Search Network

232

48

4

Segment Integration

4

Github-awesome-autocomple

5

Database search

8

Multi-attributes

9

Search as you type

10

Smart Highlighting

42

Swiss Army knife for webdev

18

25

Ultra rapid development time

43

19

Clean Interface

19

Focus on product, not deployment

76

26

Mac OS X support

2

Very chimp-like

24

Buffer from my browser; integrates with my work flow

13

No spam, phishing protection

85

Gitflow support

73

Interactive stage or discard by hunks or lines

134

Easy repository browsing

203

Visual history and branch view

3

Can even be used by your grandma

10

369

486

275

Makes developing rest api's easy peasy

143

The best api workflow out there

156

Easy setup, looks good

53

History feature

9

Fully featured without looking cluttered

34

The best in class app

11

Can save and share script

11

3

Ability to link documents

2

Wiki-style documents

2

Table of contents

3

Embed media in-line

2

2

Sync to Dropbox

8

Mandrill integration

19

Diverse web frameworks

33

7

22

27

291

18

Feature based workflow

56

Great grid system

14

Per-room notification

21

18

9

6

Super fast, easy to set up

13

Most wide-spread VSC

25

Multiple integrations

4

Google Analytics Integration

6

25

Incredibly easy point 'n' click backend logic

21

Everything you need without the bloat

18

47

Package control, modules

26

8

4

Industry Standard

7

Great tutorials

19

Uni-directional data flow

142

6

Accessible from all of my devices

34

7

This tool understands developers

10

10

316

8

Built by Facebook

10

Large community

13

Wide acceptance

3

No configuration required

1

1

Search and filtering

1

Export data to CSV

98

105

5

Idealized media consumption

33

22

Ease of back-end development

4

No merchant account/gateway required

11

Organized engagement, great ui & service

9

6

7

Stupidly simple to integrate and run on Rails/Heroku

8

Integrates with redis automatically, with zero config

6

Easy to discover new code libraries

69

5

29

Cool for remote team prototyping

9

Standard in Open Source collab

43

User-friendly interface

2

Clean Integration with Application

2

Person-based Analytics

2

Just the View of MVC

3

Easy branching and merging

13

20

5

6

Provides context, and great stack trace

5

17

It revolutionized the way I share work with clients

8

Dropbox Integration

7

Beautiful user experience

85

7

2

Extended version history

3

Synchronizing laptop and desktop - work anywhere

44

15

25

Image processing on demand

5

4

4

Lets my teammates track my progress throughout the day

18

8

Looks great and is fun to use

18

Ui/ux and user-friendliness

9

14

136

Github integration

2

Data Collection from any source

5

It's friggin awesome

11

Improved response time and throughput

4

8

Replacement tokens/templated emails

6

Credit cards never hit your server - no pci worries

9

Direct chat with customers on your site

25

Great customer support

18

Low learning curve

13

12

Breathtaking ux

7

Your own scalable Heroku in 5 minutes

5

Convox deploy - deploys your app in one command

6

Free, you only pay for AWS resources

6

Made by same folks from stackoverflow

7

Html template editor

3

Easy A/B testing

7

Works with sendgrid/mandrill/mailgun

7

Great analytics

6

2

Well documented

7

Actionable analytics with concrete numbers

8

Sort by 'agony' - lists low hanging fruit fixes

3

22

10

7

Search commit messages

7

Professional Features and Options

13

4

Remarkable uptime

29

3

Make sample API calls inside the docs

15

Good documentation

9

Filters, resizing, blur and more as url parameters

5

Awesome support

4

Hands down best online Git service available

6

Painless & well documented

3

Recurring billing

2

2

2

2

Filter and segment users

2

Excellent api documentation

4

Very responsive and friendly support team

6

5

Built on Docker

4

3

8

Instantsearch.js

2

Excellent customer support

2

Simple customer validation

4

Lets me keep track of tasks throughout the week

3

Integrates with Slack

7

Makes working remotely easy

3

Github integration

15

2

Recommendations

11

Great mobile app

1

7

Easy to gain traction

15

2

2

Inline Comments & Discussions

4

Highly customizable

3

Chrome Inspector works IN EDITOR

10

Simple, yet elegant and appealing UX

9

7

Completely free

2

20

Great branch visualization

3

Powerful Search

7

Simpler than Pingdom

17

Easy to understand

13

Instant notifications

3

More reliable than the other Redis add-ons

9

2

Both people can control. Mic Drop.

13

7

5

2

Slick transitions between questions

1

Allows presenter to share mouse control

2

Quick setup for presenter

2

No installation for viewers

1

Easy integration with CloudFront

2

Web UI for uploading files

8

GitHub integration

3

1

Dashboard w/live polling

2

1

Web editor for templates

1

1

Conversion tracking

1

Weekly email w/performance trends

2

Search/query with regex

1

2

Tolerable UI (default Bootstrap)

1

1

Great UI/dashboard

2

1

Easy integration

1

Free company logo API

1

Prospector API is amazing

1

Beautiful documentation

1

Great changelogs and onsite notifications

1

Detailed logs for every API request made

1

1

3

5

4

Great documentation

2

Annual pricing option

1

Schedule tweets via API

2

Super simple to get started

2

2

1

Uses standard docs

2

Custom branding

2

3

3

2

7

8

Best Git Client UI/Features

1

GitHub integration, status inline in PRs

1

Crystal clear audio quality

2

1

1

Controlling presenter's screen is the default behavior

6

8

2

1

1

1

3

3

Supports multi-state benefits

2

Great customer support

3

Syncing with other payroll services

1

8

Beautiful responsive themes

6

Easy ongoing maintenance

3

Live chat & 24/7 support team

6

Instant Purging

7

13

React integration

13

Automagic updates

15

12

GitHub integration

4

Easily see per-commit coverage in GitHub

3

4

4

Easy to learn, use, improvise and update

5

Simple image upload with widget

4

Easy to integrate into any website

6

6

Shareable Collections

7

2

1

Ability to customize color theme

2

Super simple to install

2

Ability to set threshold for # of responses

1

Views and conversion analytics

1

Export results to CSV

1

1

Set rules for when survey should appear on page

1

Specify which users to show surveys to

1

SendGrid integration for opens/clicks

1

See user events in one stream

1

Clearbit integration

1

8

See full user sessions

5

Playback console errors as they happen

5

"Skip inactivity" during playback

5

Speed up playback

3

User event stream

3

Segment users based on actions

3

Easy integration through Segment

1

Payroll reminder emails

1

Google Calendar integration

1

Really hard to pull analytics out via api

2

Google analytics integration is not campaign-specific

23

Super expensive

6

Organization via web ui sucks

3

Personal vs company account is confusing

3

Onboarding new users

3

2

Setup in a minute

2

Stripe integration

6

Conversational template questions

3

Free basic product

2

Fax multiple recipients at once

2

Edit & sign faxes electronically

15

Grid system break points aren't ideal

19

Slow with large files

16

Every site uses the defaults

36

Expensive for lone developers that want private repos

7

Really slow if you're not really careful

7

21

A constant moving target, too much churn

3

Ui could use some polishing

9

Confusing UX/UI

27

Slow ui performance

5

Very hard to build out funnels

2

A little too flexible

5

No concept of velocity or points

4

Very light native integrations

35

Requires discipline to keep architecture organized

1

Expensive once you hit healthy traffic

1

Complains about small stylistic decisions

1

3

Lots of configuration options

225

14

Built on Electron

40

Great for note taking

8

Easy setup,great ui

6

High learning curve when compared to PaaS

6

Not a whole lot of flexibility

3

Great for caching HTML

1

No coding necessary

4

Feedback form on error pages

6

Efficient analysis

96

It's a powerful framework

2

Integrates with just about everything

2

Awesome aanltiycs and typos hnadling

14

7

You can use it for anything related to graphics

11

13

4

11

Mirror designs on mobile devices

23

Lightweight alternative to Photoshop

9

Great for product managers

3

1

Github integration

7

9

Reusable elements/components

2

Can't seem to change the number of total points

1

Limitations with integration-specific configurations

1

Client-side events are separated from server-side

2

Not clear which events/options are integration-specific

3

UI could use some work

1

Invalidations take so long

1

Only really good for .io domains

2

Super expensive

1

Charged based on subscribers as opposed to emails sent

3

UI is incredibly complicated

2

Hard to set up alerts properly

1

Conversions don't quite seem to work

1

Comparing different timeframes is difficult

3

Good luck changing domains

5

Starting to get pricey

2

Great for coordinating across timezones

4

2

Steep learning curve

3

1

GitHub org / team integration is a little too tight

2

1

If you're using it via Segment, it's all or nothing

1

We'll never get through all the sessions recorded

1

Doesn't integrate with our exception monitoring

12

Can be distracting depending on how you use it

6

Requires some management for large teams

3

5

Hard to understand why things in your app are breaking

7

Visualizations aren't very helpful

10

19

Not much community activity

3

Not always reliable

3

Birthday notifications are annoying

2

Finding/adding people isn't easy

5

Really high CPU utilization during video/screenshare

4

2

Super expensive

3

Extremely reliable

6

2

Time spent on page isn't accurate out of the box

15

Relatively slow product/feature release cadence

10

API scoping could be better

6

Takes time/work to organize buckets & folders properly

7

Permissions take some time to get right

1

Re-buffering a lot of tweets is pretty painful

1

Mobile app could use some work

1

More expensive than the other options

1

Not easy to customize

6

Fetching is slow sometimes

16

6

Changes pricing model all the time

10

Plugins are of mixed quality

11

Hard to keep up-to-date if you customize things

13

Poor raw performance

2

PostgreSQL forking and following

7

New versions == broken features

10

2

Live events is overly complex feature

4

Sometimes inconsistent API

5

5

Encourages DOM as primary data source

22

Too much "magic" (hidden behavior)

11

Asset system is too primitive and outdated

1

Wish users could auth with our app instead of UserVoice

2

25

Web conferencing made easy

1

Hard to use custom code

3

Horrible for slide presentations

2

Google Calendar integration

2

Ability to block off times

4

Different meeting URLs

1

Behavioral cohorts

1

2

Chart edits get their own URLs

1

Engagement Matrix is super helpful

2

Event streams for individual users

1

4

Super expensive once you're past the free plan

2

Free for up to 10M user actions per month

16

Remote control option

13

9

Pair programming sessions with shared controls

13

34

14

Limited Storage

20

Limited time if you are a basic member

4

Virtual backgrounds

15

Integrated with G Suite

4

Doesn't handle switching audio sources well

6

Cloud recordings for meetings

1

Auto-added to G Cal invites

12

2

Chrome extension is great to easily create meetings

5

Great mobile app

4

The native calendar is buggy

11

In-meeting chat is pretty good

11

Hate how sharing your screen defaults to Full Screen

8

Easy to share meeting links/invites

1

9

Quality isn't great