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Yonas Beshawred

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Recent Tech Decisions

1208 points

Following

897

Free private repos

493

451

Free for side projects

346

39

Easy to add collaborators

189

Simple installation

86

Easy to scale and maintain 3rd party services

161

Know who your users are

695

Easy deployment

260

Smooth setup & ui

192

850

216

Consolidates similar errors and makes resolution easy

240

Really powerful

249

Free, widespread

141

1476

1237

18

One stop solution

108

It's available for many countries

191

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

645

Quick and reliable cloud servers

466

Great community

99

56

295

33

A/B Testing Subject Lines

443

Great way to share

186

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

361

446

189

Great documentation

342

702

Great for collaboration

564

124

Generous free allowance to get you started

225

Simple and reliable

40

Wordpress integration

517

471

Remote team collaboration

337

Really powerful

393

Easy management

246

Well-designed api

87

30

Broad feature set

1746

Open source friendly

171

3

3

Fully automated

267

331

215

Simple deployments

87

Customer support

66

113

1456

Easy source control

109

Custom templates

404

Comprehensive feature set

930

891

Data visualization

397

246

125

158

Compatible with other aws services

108

22

Community SDK involvement

172

Shared file hosting

258

Low devops skills required

226

151

Beginner friendly

1112

Great for team collaboration

118

Integrates with a lot of external services

77

Integration with external services

121

Integrated in many tools

131

Low learning curve

336

Plugins & themes

83

Snappy and blazing fast

364

78

Easy to find repos

55

370

Huge time-saver

38

Great customer support

412

66

Github integration

171

Add-ons for almost everything

4

Collaborative editing

149

Better for startups

66

Heroku Integration

105

In-app messaging as well as email

143

Desktop and mobile apps

455

278

166

617

159

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

179

10

56

36

49

27

435

Pull request and features planning

58

Very powerful API

62

166

Github integration

1197

Easy to integrate with

871

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

122

46

30

Multiple datacenters

31

Designed to search records, not pages

70

Excellent support

71

Easy setup, fast and relevant

46

252

74

2

Huge updates at least once a month

41

116

18

26

840

2

Remote pair programming that's as easy as Google Docs

4

284

216

Right out of github

58

Easy to find projects

97

816

Rapid integration and build up

132

17

699

642

38

Least cost (free) for the basic needs case

686

503

Testability and reproducibility

24

Limit resource usage

30

Great Customer Support

16

14

510

18

16

Hipchat integration

65

Email, text & twitter alerts

21

118

Built with node.js

437

115

340

106

515

242

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

219

Github integration

240

292

Simple bootstraping

808

609

15

Heroku Integration

46

Postgres hosting

23

Awesome documentation

677

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

184

594

Programme friendly

105

Free Public Repos

99

451

606

28

Faster development

8

467

Convention over configuration

413

11

4

Easy implementation

60

121

99

Efficient background processing

198

71

11

Makes you a better coder

44

13

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

306

Most widely-used web server

137

218

Virtual hosting

146

422

Enterprise class database

373

28

493

High availability

168

Great community

129

141

125

Secure by default

21

303

84

Great community

69

Mobile friendly

227

79

1264

350

79

592

Great community

333

824

Rapid development

632

265

Great libraries

251

100

337

80

Easy Database Migrations

25

61

14

Great community

16

41

Great Data Modeling

69

107

16

80

281

Great for startups

63

42

6

Simple installation

25

135

Cheap and simple

86

8

Easy to work with

6

Shared file hosting

662

397

942

157

283

964

Dom manipulation

625

584

134

Powerful one-liners

155

229

Meta-programming

105

Easy email integration!

11

363

1173

667

1544

760

367

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

861

1102

Lots of great frameworks

714

1557

Can be used on frontend/backend

46

63

266

53

199

524

Quick to develop

485

Great community

523

674

418

111

Isn't an mvc framework

99

Explicit app state

457

126

Syntactic sugar

743

Relational database

845

1438

Distributed version control system

302

968

23

43

82

322

Great integrations

247

12

5

8

42

9

32

Git Powered Wikis

31

Developer Profiles

10

Subscriber Analytics

157

141

165

36

9

142

132

355

Development environments

9

3

3

Internet calling

6

High-availability

2

3

6

78

Backed by amazon

78

20

23

Binary streaming

423

461

39

Maintainability

296

109

Selector inheritance

465

599

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

1060

Efficient branching and merging

73

53

Has everything you need to get the job done

238

44

Great community

402

369

167

19

459

90

457

HTML, CSS, and JS framework

67

68

693

Real-time stats

179

19

48

9

10

38

89

62

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

1431

It's everywhere

346

Easy formatting

124

High-performance

32

Distributed caching system

9

Works great with Flux Architecture

40

365

Great command-line application

19

Simple rollback

221

145

Backed by github

317

258

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

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 :(

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

98

80

Slack integration

56

1

Offered by Redis Labs

181

395

274

Non-blocking i/o

34

270

22

30

Distributed Search Network

230

43

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

19

24

Ultra rapid development time

42

17

Clean Interface

18

Focus on product, not deployment

66

22

Mac OS X support

2

Very chimp-like

23

Buffer from my browser; integrates with my work flow

13

No spam, phishing protection

83

Gitflow support

71

Interactive stage or discard by hunks or lines

133

Easy repository browsing

200

Visual history and branch view

3

Can even be used by your grandma

9

356

464

264

Makes developing rest api's easy peasy

137

The best api workflow out there

141

Easy setup, looks good

48

History feature

8

Fully featured without looking cluttered

33

The best in class app

9

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

30

7

19

24

285

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

40

Package control, modules

21

8

4

Industry Standard

7

Great tutorials

10

Uni-directional data flow

139

4

Accessible from all of my devices

30

7

This tool understands developers

10

10

309

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

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

36

User-friendly interface

2

Clean Integration with Application

2

Person-based Analytics

2

Just the View of MVC

3

Easy branching and merging

12

17

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

84

7

2

Extended version history

3

Synchronizing laptop and desktop - work anywhere

43

14

24

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

16

Ui/ux and user-friendliness

8

9

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

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

21

9

7

Search commit messages

6

Professional Features and Options

11

4

Remarkable uptime

29

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

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

17

Great branch visualization

3

Powerful Search

7

Simpler than Pingdom

11

Easy to understand

8

Instant notifications

2

More reliable than the other Redis add-ons

8

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

6

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

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

5

4

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

11

React integration

11

Automagic updates

11

9

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

6

5

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

7

Super expensive

4

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

6

Grid system break points aren't ideal

11

Slow with large files

9

Every site uses the defaults

28

Expensive for lone developers that want private repos

8

Really slow if you're not really careful

6

17

A constant moving target, too much churn

3

Ui could use some polishing

7

Confusing UX/UI

17

Slow ui performance

2

Very hard to build out funnels

1

A little too flexible

2

No concept of velocity or points

3

Very light native integrations

15

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

216

8

Built on Electron

40

Great for note taking

6

Easy setup,great ui

6

High learning curve when compared to PaaS

4

Not a whole lot of flexibility

1

Great for caching HTML

1

No coding necessary

2

Feedback form on error pages

5

Efficient analysis

72

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

10

Mirror designs on mobile devices

22

Lightweight alternative to Photoshop

6

Great for product managers

3

1

Github integration

7

8

Reusable elements/components

2

Can't seem to change the number of total points

4

Meta-programming complexity

6

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

9

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

4

Visualizations aren't very helpful

6

15

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

10

Relatively slow product/feature release cadence

8

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

15

2

Changes pricing model all the time

5

Plugins are of mixed quality

6

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

11

Poor raw performance

2

PostgreSQL forking and following

7

New versions == broken features

4

2

Live events is overly complex feature

4

Sometimes inconsistent API

5

5

Encourages DOM as primary data source

16

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

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

8