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Yonas Beshawred

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Recent Tech Decisions

1176 points

Following

894

Free private repos

492

447

Free for side projects

344

39

Easy to add collaborators

189

Simple installation

86

Easy to scale and maintain 3rd party services

161

Know who your users are

693

Easy deployment

260

Smooth setup & ui

191

850

216

Consolidates similar errors and makes resolution easy

241

Really powerful

249

Free, widespread

141

1480

1240

18

One stop solution

108

It's available for many countries

190

Most known service

134

Consumers know it

430

Easy to work with

213

48

Simple grade system that motivates to keep code clean

68

Auto sync with Github

20

Hotspots for quick refactoring candidates

648

Quick and reliable cloud servers

463

Great community

98

56

294

33

A/B Testing Subject Lines

444

Great way to share

188

74

63

Full integration with webhooks

290

Developer friendly

7

Great customer support

33

249

151

Robust e-mail creation

590

500

39

15

14

611

362

446

189

Great documentation

342

701

Great for collaboration

565

124

Generous free allowance to get you started

225

Simple and reliable

40

Wordpress integration

517

468

Remote team collaboration

337

Really powerful

393

Easy management

246

Well-designed api

87

30

Broad feature set

1752

Open source friendly

171

3

3

Fully automated

267

331

215

Simple deployments

86

Customer support

66

112

1456

Easy source control

109

Custom templates

407

Comprehensive feature set

933

891

Data visualization

397

246

125

159

Compatible with other aws services

108

22

Community SDK involvement

171

Shared file hosting

256

Low devops skills required

226

149

Beginner friendly

1117

Great for team collaboration

118

Integrates with a lot of external services

76

Integration with external services

121

Integrated in many tools

129

Low learning curve

333

Plugins & themes

83

Snappy and blazing fast

364

77

Easy to find repos

55

368

Huge time-saver

38

Great customer support

411

65

Github integration

170

Add-ons for almost everything

4

Collaborative editing

147

Better for startups

65

Heroku Integration

105

In-app messaging as well as email

143

Desktop and mobile apps

458

278

166

617

158

Github integration

95

33

29

10

23

79

45

Works with lots of devices

95

127

33

47

Great for mailchimp users

15

Continued encouragement to a have better / cleaner code

178

10

56

36

49

27

433

Pull request and features planning

58

Very powerful API

62

165

Github integration

1199

Easy to integrate with

872

Excellent interface on multiple platforms

312

Flexible notification preferences

182

Strong search and data archiving

94

Super easy to implement

71

Modern search engine

40

Search analytics

121

46

30

Multiple datacenters

31

Designed to search records, not pages

70

Excellent support

71

Easy setup, fast and relevant

45

251

74

2

Huge updates at least once a month

41

116

18

26

842

2

Remote pair programming that's as easy as Google Docs

4

283

216

Right out of github

58

Easy to find projects

96

817

Rapid integration and build up

131

17

692

638

37

Least cost (free) for the basic needs case

688

503

Testability and reproducibility

22

Limit resource usage

30

Great Customer Support

16

14

510

17

16

Hipchat integration

65

Email, text & twitter alerts

21

118

Built with node.js

439

115

342

105

514

242

Unlimited trial

9

Remote pair programming for web development

109

Email Notifications

5

Guest and Restricted user control

21

Unread/read control

153

Multi domain switching support

12

Star for each message / attached files

17

Text snippet with highlighting

674

Mobile friendly

15

Quote message easily

61

Great customer support

218

Github integration

239

292

Simple bootstraping

807

610

15

Heroku Integration

46

Postgres hosting

23

Awesome documentation

676

People really enjoy using it

84

Slack integration

18

32

27

8

Very easy setup and highly customizable for your search

45

32

Out-of-the-box features

29

Easy and fast setup

31

No code for the backend

182

588

Programme friendly

105

Free Public Repos

99

449

599

28

Faster development

8

462

Convention over configuration

406

11

4

Easy implementation

59

120

98

Efficient background processing

198

71

11

Makes you a better coder

43

12

469

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

304

Most widely-used web server

137

217

Virtual hosting

146

421

Enterprise class database

369

27

493

High availability

166

Great community

125

137

123

Secure by default

20

299

84

Great community

69

Mobile friendly

225

78

1264

349

76

587

Great community

327

813

Rapid development

627

264

Great libraries

248

99

331

81

Easy Database Migrations

25

60

14

Great community

15

41

Great Data Modeling

67

107

16

78

281

Great for startups

63

42

6

Simple installation

25

137

Cheap and simple

88

8

Easy to work with

6

Shared file hosting

662

396

942

157

282

961

Dom manipulation

618

584

132

Powerful one-liners

154

225

Meta-programming

107

Easy email integration!

11

363

1172

667

1547

757

359

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

858

1096

Lots of great frameworks

710

1548

Can be used on frontend/backend

45

62

264

51

196

522

Quick to develop

482

Great community

517

664

416

110

Isn't an mvc framework

97

Explicit app state

456

126

Syntactic sugar

743

Relational database

847

1442

Distributed version control system

301

971

23

43

82

322

Great integrations

247

12

5

8

42

9

32

Git Powered Wikis

31

Developer Profiles

10

Subscriber Analytics

154

139

165

36

9

142

132

354

Development environments

9

3

3

Internet calling

6

High-availability

2

3

6

78

Backed by amazon

78

20

22

Binary streaming

419

458

39

Maintainability

296

109

Selector inheritance

466

600

95

414

11

Dropbox Integration

18

Developer Friendly

24

Built by developers for developers

35

MVC - Easy to start on

14

Natural companion for rails development

27

Very powerful foundational front-end framework

1061

Efficient branching and merging

73

53

Has everything you need to get the job done

234

44

Great community

401

368

167

19

456

90

455

HTML, CSS, and JS framework

65

67

695

Real-time stats

178

19

48

9

10

38

89

62

134

Fast object cache

73

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

49

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

1424

It's everywhere

346

Easy formatting

124

High-performance

32

Distributed caching system

9

Works great with Flux Architecture

40

364

Great command-line application

19

Simple rollback

216

145

Backed by github

317

256

Scary smart community

9

10

2

Version history

2

12

Embedding videos, tweets, vines

33

Simpler markup language

23

67

Clean and simple

3

Embedded signup forms

195

208

19

26

The most important tool we use in production

12

1

Great replacement for Rapportive

1

Hover over email addresses anywhere

7

16

104

Because i have to :(

48

No html open/close tags

38

Easier to write than ERB

34

Forces clean and readable code

1

27

3

6

6

4

Ability to create templates

97

80

Slack integration

56

1

Offered by Redis Labs

177

388

269

Non-blocking i/o

34

267

22

30

Distributed Search Network

229

42

4

Segment Integration

4

Github-awesome-autocomple

5

Database search

8

Multi-attributes

9

Search as you type

10

Smart Highlighting

41

Swiss Army knife for webdev

19

24

Ultra rapid development time

41

17

Clean Interface

17

Focus on product, not deployment

65

21

Mac OS X support

2

Very chimp-like

23

Buffer from my browser; integrates with my work flow

12

No spam, phishing protection

83

Gitflow support

70

Interactive stage or discard by hunks or lines

131

Easy repository browsing

198

Visual history and branch view

3

Can even be used by your grandma

9

352

461

262

Makes developing rest api's easy peasy

137

The best api workflow out there

138

Easy setup, looks good

47

History feature

8

Fully featured without looking cluttered

32

The best in class app

8

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

18

Diverse web frameworks

27

7

19

24

283

18

Feature based workflow

50

Great grid system

14

Per-room notification

19

16

9

6

Super fast, easy to set up

12

Most wide-spread VSC

25

Multiple integrations

4

Google Analytics Integration

6

25

Incredibly easy point 'n' click backend logic

16

Everything you need without the bloat

14

35

Package control, modules

21

8

4

Industry Standard

7

Great tutorials

10

Uni-directional data flow

137

4

Accessible from all of my devices

30

7

This tool understands developers

10

10

308

5

Built by Facebook

9

Large community

11

Wide acceptance

3

No configuration required

1

1

Search and filtering

1

Export data to CSV

98

104

5

Idealized media consumption

31

22

Ease of back-end development

3

No merchant account/gateway required

11

Organized engagement, great ui & service

9

6

6

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

33

User-friendly interface

2

Clean Integration with Application

2

Person-based Analytics

2

Just the View of MVC

3

Easy branching and merging

12

16

5

4

Provides context, and great stack trace

3

17

It revolutionized the way I share work with clients

8

Dropbox Integration

6

Beautiful user experience

84

7

2

Extended version history

3

Synchronizing laptop and desktop - work anywhere

41

14

23

Image processing on demand

5

4

4

Lets my teammates track my progress throughout the day

16

8

Looks great and is fun to use

15

Ui/ux and user-friendliness

8

8

136

Github integration

2

Data Collection from any source

5

It's friggin awesome

9

Improved response time and throughput

4

8

Replacement tokens/templated emails

3

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

5

Your own scalable Heroku in 5 minutes

3

Convox deploy - deploys your app in one command

5

Free, you only pay for AWS resources

5

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

20

9

6

Search commit messages

6

Professional Features and Options

9

4

Remarkable uptime

27

2

Make sample API calls inside the docs

9

Good documentation

8

Filters, resizing, blur and more as url parameters

5

Awesome support

4

Hands down best online Git service available

5

Painless & well documented

2

Recurring billing

2

2

2

2

Filter and segment users

2

Excellent api documentation

4

Very responsive and friendly support team

6

4

Built on Docker

3

3

7

Instantsearch.js

2

Excellent customer support

2

Simple customer validation

3

Lets me keep track of tasks throughout the week

3

Integrates with Slack

6

Makes working remotely easy

3

Github integration

15

2

Recommendations

11

Great mobile app

1

7

Easy to gain traction

13

2

2

Inline Comments & Discussions

4

Highly customizable

3

Chrome Inspector works IN EDITOR

10

Simple, yet elegant and appealing UX

8

6

Completely free

1

16

Great branch visualization

3

Powerful Search

6

Simpler than Pingdom

10

Easy to understand

7

Instant notifications

2

More reliable than the other Redis add-ons

7

2

Both people can control. Mic Drop.

11

7

4

2

Slick transitions between questions

1

Allows presenter to share mouse control

1

Quick setup for presenter

1

No installation for viewers

1

Easy integration with CloudFront

1

Web UI for uploading files

5

GitHub integration

2

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

1

1

Uses standard docs

2

Custom branding

2

3

2

2

5

7

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

5

2

2

1

1

2

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

4

Instant Purging

6

10

React integration

11

Automagic updates

11

8

GitHub integration

2

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

5

4

Shareable Collections

3

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

6

See full user sessions

4

Playback console errors as they happen

4

"Skip inactivity" during playback

4

Speed up playback

2

User event stream

2

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

6

Super expensive

3

Organization via web ui sucks

2

Personal vs company account is confusing

2

Onboarding new users

2

2

Setup in a minute

2

Stripe integration

4

Conversational template questions

3

Free basic product

2

Fax multiple recipients at once

2

Edit & sign faxes electronically

4

Grid system break points aren't ideal

10

Slow with large files

8

Every site uses the defaults

9

Lack of updates

27

Expensive for lone developers that want private repos

6

Really slow if you're not really careful

6

16

A constant moving target, too much churn

3

Ui could use some polishing

3

7

Confusing UX/UI

15

Slow ui performance

2

Very hard to build out funnels

1

A little too flexible

1

No concept of velocity or points

2

Very light native integrations

9

Requires discipline to keep architecture organized

1

Expensive once you hit healthy traffic

1

Complains about small stylistic decisions

1

134

Friendly for Linux beginners

3

Great Plugin Community

3

Lots of configuration options

214

7

Built on Electron

39

Great for note taking

6

Easy setup,great ui

5

High learning curve when compared to PaaS

4

Not a whole lot of flexibility

1

Great for caching HTML

1

No coding necessary

1

Feedback form on error pages

5

Efficient analysis

67

It's a powerful framework

2

Integrates with just about everything

2

Awesome aanltiycs and typos hnadling

12

6

You can use it for anything related to graphics

8

10

3

10

Mirror designs on mobile devices

22

Lightweight alternative to Photoshop

6

Great for product managers

3

1

Github integration

6

8

Reusable elements/components

2

Can't seem to change the number of total points

10

Uses a lot of memory

4

Meta-programming complexity

15

12

Uses a lot of memory

5

1

Limitations with integration-specific configurations

1

Client-side events are separated from server-side

1

Not clear which events/options are integration-specific

1

UI could use some work

1

Invalidations take so long

1

Only really good for .io domains

1

Super expensive

1

Charged based on subscribers as opposed to emails sent

2

UI is incredibly complicated

1

Hard to set up alerts properly

1

Conversions don't quite seem to work

1

Comparing different timeframes is difficult

2

Good luck changing domains

4

Starting to get pricey

1

Great for coordinating across timezones

1

1

Steep learning curve

1

1

GitHub org / team integration is a little too tight

1

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

8

Can be distracting depending on how you use it

4

Requires some management for large teams

4

3

Hard to understand why things in your app are breaking

3

Visualizations aren't very helpful

5

14

Not much community activity

1

Not always reliable

1

Birthday notifications are annoying

1

Finding/adding people isn't easy

2

Really high CPU utilization during video/screenshare

2

2

Super expensive

2

Extremely reliable

4

1

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

9

Relatively slow product/feature release cadence

7

API scoping could be better

2

Takes time/work to organize buckets & folders properly

3

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

2

Fetching is slow sometimes

14

2

Changes pricing model all the time

3

Plugins are of mixed quality

4

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

9

Poor raw performance

2

PostgreSQL forking and following

7

New versions == broken features

4

2

Live events is overly complex feature

3

Sometimes inconsistent API

3

3

Encourages DOM as primary data source

14

Too much "magic" (hidden behavior)

8

Asset system is too primitive and outdated

1

Wish users could auth with our app instead of UserVoice

2

1

Hard to use custom code

1

Horrible for slide presentations

1

Google Calendar integration

1

Ability to block off times

1

Different meeting URLs

1

Behavioral cohorts

1

1

Chart edits get their own URLs

1

Engagement Matrix is super helpful

1

Event streams for individual users

1

1

Super expensive once you're past the free plan

1

Free for up to 10M user actions per month

4