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Yonas

yonasb

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Recent Tech Decisions

1153 points

Following

893

Free private repos

489

447

Free for side projects

344

39

Easy to add collaborators

189

Simple installation

84

Easy to scale and maintain 3rd party services

161

Know who your users are

690

Easy deployment

260

Smooth setup & ui

189

849

216

Consolidates similar errors and makes resolution easy

241

Really powerful

250

Free, widespread

141

1478

1232

18

One stop solution

108

It's available for many countries

191

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

647

Quick and reliable cloud servers

458

Great community

98

56

293

33

A/B Testing Subject Lines

440

Great way to share

187

74

63

Full integration with webhooks

288

Developer friendly

7

Great customer support

33

249

151

Robust e-mail creation

591

500

39

15

14

610

362

446

188

Great documentation

341

699

Great for collaboration

562

124

Generous free allowance to get you started

225

Simple and reliable

40

Wordpress integration

517

467

Remote team collaboration

336

Really powerful

392

Easy management

244

Well-designed api

86

30

Broad feature set

1745

Open source friendly

170

3

3

Fully automated

267

331

215

Simple deployments

86

Customer support

66

112

1452

Easy source control

109

Custom templates

407

Comprehensive feature set

933

891

Data visualization

396

245

125

159

Compatible with other aws services

107

22

Community SDK involvement

171

Shared file hosting

255

Low devops skills required

225

148

Beginner friendly

1114

Great for team collaboration

118

Integrates with a lot of external services

76

Integration with external services

121

Integrated in many tools

128

Low learning curve

333

Plugins & themes

83

Snappy and blazing fast

363

77

Easy to find repos

55

366

Huge time-saver

38

Great customer support

410

64

Github integration

169

Add-ons for almost everything

4

Collaborative editing

146

Better for startups

66

Heroku Integration

105

In-app messaging as well as email

144

Desktop and mobile apps

463

279

166

616

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

431

Pull request and features planning

58

Very powerful API

62

163

Github integration

1202

Easy to integrate with

872

Excellent interface on multiple platforms

312

Flexible notification preferences

182

Strong search and data archiving

92

Super easy to implement

70

Modern search engine

39

Search analytics

119

44

29

Multiple datacenters

30

Designed to search records, not pages

69

Excellent support

69

Easy setup, fast and relevant

45

251

74

2

Huge updates at least once a month

41

116

18

26

843

2

Remote pair programming that's as easy as Google Docs

4

283

216

Right out of github

58

Easy to find projects

96

815

Rapid integration and build up

131

17

683

636

37

Least cost (free) for the basic needs case

687

503

Testability and reproducibility

22

Limit resource usage

30

Great Customer Support

16

14

507

17

16

Hipchat integration

65

Email, text & twitter alerts

21

118

Built with node.js

438

113

342

103

511

239

Unlimited trial

9

Remote pair programming for web development

107

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

214

Github integration

239

292

Simple bootstraping

805

608

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

586

Programme friendly

105

Free Public Repos

99

448

595

28

Faster development

8

460

Convention over configuration

405

11

4

Easy implementation

59

120

98

Efficient background processing

198

71

11

Makes you a better coder

43

12

467

5

2

2

Cohort Segmentation

6

Great 3rd integration

2

Customizable Reports

10

Great Tutorials

61

66

147

Continuous deployment

10

Real-time analytics

6

Customer Profiles

304

Most widely-used web server

137

217

Virtual hosting

147

420

Enterprise class database

369

27

492

High availability

165

Great community

125

137

122

Secure by default

20

298

83

Great community

69

Mobile friendly

224

77

1260

348

76

587

Great community

327

816

Rapid development

628

265

Great libraries

246

99

330

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

24

136

Cheap and simple

87

8

Easy to work with

6

Shared file hosting

662

395

940

157

283

961

Dom manipulation

613

583

131

Powerful one-liners

152

224

Meta-programming

106

Easy email integration!

11

362

1169

665

1543

754

355

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

856

1092

Lots of great frameworks

708

1539

Can be used on frontend/backend

45

62

262

51

196

522

Quick to develop

479

Great community

515

656

416

109

Isn't an mvc framework

95

Explicit app state

454

126

Syntactic sugar

741

Relational database

846

1442

Distributed version control system

299

971

23

43

82

322

Great integrations

246

12

5

8

42

9

32

Git Powered Wikis

31

Developer Profiles

10

Subscriber Analytics

149

138

165

36

9

142

132

353

Development environments

9

3

3

Internet calling

6

High-availability

2

3

6

78

Backed by amazon

78

20

21

Binary streaming

416

455

39

Maintainability

297

108

Selector inheritance

465

599

94

413

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

1060

Efficient branching and merging

73

52

Has everything you need to get the job done

234

43

Great community

399

365

167

19

456

90

453

HTML, CSS, and JS framework

63

64

695

Real-time stats

178

18

47

9

9

37

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

22

Javascript plugins

1

Stripe Integration

2

6

Easy to setup and use

1422

It's everywhere

346

Easy formatting

124

High-performance

32

Distributed caching system

9

Works great with Flux Architecture

40

362

Great command-line application

19

Simple rollback

215

144

Backed by github

313

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

39

Easier to write than ERB

35

Forces clean and readable code

1

27

3

6

6

4

Ability to create templates

95

79

Slack integration

53

1

Offered by Redis Labs

174

381

265

Non-blocking i/o

34

262

22

29

Distributed Search Network

227

40

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

63

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

348

453

255

Makes developing rest api's easy peasy

133

The best api workflow out there

133

Easy setup, looks good

43

History feature

7

Fully featured without looking cluttered

30

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

26

7

19

24

279

18

Feature based workflow

49

Great grid system

14

Per-room notification

19

16

9

6

Super fast, easy to set up

12

Most wide-spread VSC

24

Multiple integrations

4

Google Analytics Integration

4

25

Incredibly easy point 'n' click backend logic

16

Everything you need without the bloat

14

34

Package control, modules

21

8

4

Industry Standard

5

Great tutorials

10

Uni-directional data flow

137

4

Accessible from all of my devices

30

7

This tool understands developers

10

10

306

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

29

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

31

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

40

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

2

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

9

Great mobile app

1

7

Easy to gain traction

13

2

2

Inline Comments & Discussions

4

Highly customizable

3

Chrome Inspector works IN EDITOR

7

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

4

2

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

3

Instant Purging

6

10

React integration

10

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

3

Grid system break points aren't ideal

7

Slow with large files

7

Every site uses the defaults

5

Lack of updates

24

Expensive for lone developers that want private repos

6

Really slow if you're not really careful

6

12

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

4

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

64

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

9

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

8

Uses a lot of memory

3

Meta-programming complexity

9

10

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

2

Visualizations aren't very helpful

5

13

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

6

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

8

2

Changes pricing model all the time

3

Plugins are of mixed quality

4

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

7

Poor raw performance

2

PostgreSQL forking and following

6

New versions == broken features

3

2

Live events is overly complex feature

3

Sometimes inconsistent API

2

3

Encourages DOM as primary data source

11

Too much "magic" (hidden behavior)

6

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