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Yonas Beshawred

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Recent Tech Decisions

1373 points

Following

905

Free private repos

493

457

Free for side projects

345

40

Easy to add collaborators

188

Simple installation

86

Easy to scale and maintain 3rd party services

165

Know who your users are

699

Easy deployment

260

Smooth setup & ui

193

850

221

Consolidates similar errors and makes resolution easy

241

Really powerful

253

Free, widespread

141

1472

1242

18

One stop solution

111

It's available for many countries

192

Most known service

134

Consumers know it

429

Easy to work with

214

49

Simple grade system that motivates to keep code clean

69

Auto sync with Github

20

Hotspots for quick refactoring candidates

644

Quick and reliable cloud servers

469

Great community

100

56

295

33

A/B Testing Subject Lines

442

Great way to share

187

74

63

Full integration with webhooks

289

Developer friendly

7

Great customer support

33

249

151

Robust e-mail creation

586

492

39

15

14

608

362

444

189

Great documentation

342

707

Great for collaboration

563

123

Generous free allowance to get you started

225

Simple and reliable

40

Wordpress integration

515

471

Remote team collaboration

341

Really powerful

393

Easy management

246

Well-designed api

87

30

Broad feature set

1757

Open source friendly

171

3

3

Fully automated

266

328

215

Simple deployments

89

Customer support

67

115

1457

Easy source control

109

Custom templates

402

Comprehensive feature set

926

885

Data visualization

399

246

125

157

Compatible with other aws services

108

22

Community SDK involvement

172

Shared file hosting

259

Low devops skills required

228

152

Beginner friendly

1114

Great for team collaboration

118

Integrates with a lot of external services

79

Integration with external services

121

Integrated in many tools

131

Low learning curve

341

Plugins & themes

83

Snappy and blazing fast

364

79

Easy to find repos

55

370

Huge time-saver

38

Great customer support

413

65

Github integration

171

Add-ons for almost everything

4

Collaborative editing

149

Better for startups

66

Heroku Integration

107

In-app messaging as well as email

145

Desktop and mobile apps

454

275

166

618

159

Github integration

96

34

30

10

23

78

45

Works with lots of devices

95

127

33

47

Great for mailchimp users

15

Continued encouragement to a have better / cleaner code

179

10

56

36

49

27

434

Pull request and features planning

57

Very powerful API

62

168

Github integration

1199

Easy to integrate with

870

Excellent interface on multiple platforms

312

Flexible notification preferences

183

Strong search and data archiving

94

Super easy to implement

71

Modern search engine

40

Search analytics

123

46

30

Multiple datacenters

31

Designed to search records, not pages

70

Excellent support

69

Easy setup, fast and relevant

46

253

75

2

Huge updates at least once a month

41

116

18

26

838

2

Remote pair programming that's as easy as Google Docs

4

287

216

Right out of github

58

Easy to find projects

101

812

Rapid integration and build up

135

18

711

651

38

Least cost (free) for the basic needs case

685

502

Testability and reproducibility

24

Limit resource usage

31

Great Customer Support

16

14

511

18

16

Hipchat integration

65

Email, text & twitter alerts

22

119

Built with node.js

440

113

342

107

521

253

Unlimited trial

9

Remote pair programming for web development

111

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

222

Github integration

238

291

Simple bootstraping

806

610

15

Heroku Integration

47

Postgres hosting

23

Awesome documentation

678

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

31

No code for the backend

185

597

Programme friendly

108

Free Public Repos

102

467

627

29

Faster development

8

474

Convention over configuration

416

11

4

Easy implementation

60

123

99

Efficient background processing

198

71

11

Makes you a better coder

44

13

476

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

307

Most widely-used web server

138

218

Virtual hosting

146

433

Enterprise class database

378

29

500

High availability

170

Great community

129

144

127

Secure by default

22

310

84

Great community

69

Mobile friendly

227

79

1260

350

86

601

Great community

342

839

Rapid development

643

270

Great libraries

260

105

348

85

Easy Database Migrations

26

62

14

Great community

17

41

Great Data Modeling

72

107

16

80

282

Great for startups

60

42

6

Simple installation

25

136

Cheap and simple

86

8

Easy to work with

6

Shared file hosting

659

397

943

156

283

958

Dom manipulation

637

584

136

Powerful one-liners

156

233

Meta-programming

107

Easy email integration!

11

364

1183

670

1560

772

373

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

871

1109

Lots of great frameworks

722

1581

Can be used on frontend/backend

47

64

271

55

201

527

Quick to develop

487

Great community

542

709

429

118

Isn't an mvc framework

106

Explicit app state

454

126

Syntactic sugar

754

Relational database

841

1435

Distributed version control system

301

961

24

43

82

323

Great integrations

245

12

5

8

42

9

31

Git Powered Wikis

31

Developer Profiles

10

Subscriber Analytics

168

153

165

36

9

139

132

352

Development environments

9

3

3

Internet calling

6

High-availability

2

3

6

79

Backed by amazon

78

21

24

Binary streaming

428

464

39

Maintainability

296

110

Selector inheritance

463

599

95

409

11

Dropbox Integration

18

Developer Friendly

24

Built by developers for developers

38

MVC - Easy to start on

15

Natural companion for rails development

27

Very powerful foundational front-end framework

1057

Efficient branching and merging

76

53

Has everything you need to get the job done

239

47

Great community

407

371

167

19

459

90

461

HTML, CSS, and JS framework

72

73

691

Real-time stats

179

19

48

9

10

38

89

63

134

Fast object cache

74

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

1444

It's everywhere

345

Easy formatting

126

High-performance

32

Distributed caching system

13

Works great with Flux Architecture

40

364

Great command-line application

19

Simple rollback

224

147

Backed by github

317

260

Scary smart community

9

10

2

Version history

2

12

Embedding videos, tweets, vines

33

Simpler markup language

24

67

Clean and simple

3

Embedded signup forms

194

208

20

26

The most important tool we use in production

13

1

Great replacement for Rapportive

1

Hover over email addresses anywhere

7

16

108

Because i have to :(

49

No html open/close tags

38

Easier to write than ERB

35

Forces clean and readable code

1

27

3

6

6

4

Ability to create templates

101

78

Slack integration

58

1

Offered by Redis Labs

181

400

275

Non-blocking i/o

35

276

22

30

Distributed Search Network

229

44

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

42

18

Clean Interface

18

Focus on product, not deployment

71

24

Mac OS X support

2

Very chimp-like

23

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

202

Visual history and branch view

3

Can even be used by your grandma

9

359

466

265

Makes developing rest api's easy peasy

140

The best api workflow out there

146

Easy setup, looks good

49

History feature

9

Fully featured without looking cluttered

33

The best in class app

10

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

31

7

21

25

285

18

Feature based workflow

53

Great grid system

14

Per-room notification

20

16

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

18

Everything you need without the bloat

15

44

Package control, modules

22

8

4

Industry Standard

7

Great tutorials

14

Uni-directional data flow

142

5

Accessible from all of my devices

31

7

This tool understands developers

10

10

312

5

Built by Facebook

9

Large community

12

Wide acceptance

3

No configuration required

1

1

Search and filtering

1

Export data to CSV

98

104

5

Idealized media consumption

32

22

Ease of back-end development

3

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

37

User-friendly interface

2

Clean Integration with Application

2

Person-based Analytics

2

Just the View of MVC

3

Easy branching and merging

12

19

5

4

Provides context, and great stack trace

4

17

It revolutionized the way I share work with clients

8

Dropbox Integration

6

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

17

8

Looks great and is fun to use

18

Ui/ux and user-friendliness

8

10

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

5

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

6

Your own scalable Heroku in 5 minutes

4

Convox deploy - deploys your app in one command

6

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

22

10

7

Search commit messages

7

Professional Features and Options

12

4

Remarkable uptime

29

3

Make sample API calls inside the docs

12

Good documentation

9

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

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

13

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

19

Great branch visualization

3

Powerful Search

7

Simpler than Pingdom

15

Easy to understand

11

Instant notifications

3

More reliable than the other Redis add-ons

8

2

Both people can control. Mic Drop.

12

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

7

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

2

1

Uses standard docs

2

Custom branding

2

3

3

2

6

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

5

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

5

Instant Purging

7

12

React integration

12

Automagic updates

14

10

GitHub integration

3

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

4

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

10

Super expensive

5

Organization via web ui sucks

2

Personal vs company account is confusing

3

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

9

Grid system break points aren't ideal

17

Slow with large files

12

Every site uses the defaults

35

Expensive for lone developers that want private repos

7

Really slow if you're not really careful

6

20

A constant moving target, too much churn

3

Ui could use some polishing

7

Confusing UX/UI

20

Slow ui performance

2

Very hard to build out funnels

2

A little too flexible

3

No concept of velocity or points

4

Very light native integrations

26

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

217

11

Built on Electron

40

Great for note taking

7

Easy setup,great ui

6

High learning curve when compared to PaaS

3

Not a whole lot of flexibility

2

Great for caching HTML

1

No coding necessary

2

Feedback form on error pages

6

Efficient analysis

81

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

9

11

3

11

Mirror designs on mobile devices

23

Lightweight alternative to Photoshop

8

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

1

Not clear which events/options are integration-specific

2

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

2

Great for coordinating across timezones

2

2

Steep learning curve

2

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

12

Can be distracting depending on how you use it

6

Requires some management for large teams

4

5

Hard to understand why things in your app are breaking

6

Visualizations aren't very helpful

8

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

2

2

Super expensive

3

Extremely reliable

4

1

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

13

Relatively slow product/feature release cadence

9

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

4

Fetching is slow sometimes

16

3

Changes pricing model all the time

9

Plugins are of mixed quality

9

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

12

Poor raw performance

2

PostgreSQL forking and following

7

New versions == broken features

5

2

Live events is overly complex feature

4

Sometimes inconsistent API

5

5

Encourages DOM as primary data source

18

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

21

Web conferencing made easy

1

Hard to use custom code

2

Horrible for slide presentations

1

Google Calendar integration

1

Ability to block off times

2

Different meeting URLs

1

Behavioral cohorts

1

2

Chart edits get their own URLs

1

Engagement Matrix is super helpful

1

Event streams for individual users

1

3

Super expensive once you're past the free plan

2

Free for up to 10M user actions per month

13

Remote control option

10

8

Pair programming sessions with shared controls

8

29

8

Limited Storage

14

Limited time if you are a basic member

3

Virtual backgrounds

14

Integrated with G Suite

2

Doesn't handle switching audio sources well

6

Cloud recordings for meetings

1

Auto-added to G Cal invites

7

2

Chrome extension is great to easily create meetings

4

Great mobile app

2

The native calendar is buggy

8

In-meeting chat is pretty good

8

Hate how sharing your screen defaults to Full Screen

7

Easy to share meeting links/invites

1

9

Quality isn't great