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Yonas Beshawred

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Recent Tech Decisions

1227 points

Following

899

Free private repos

492

452

Free for side projects

345

40

Easy to add collaborators

189

Simple installation

86

Easy to scale and maintain 3rd party services

164

Know who your users are

694

Easy deployment

260

Smooth setup & ui

193

851

218

Consolidates similar errors and makes resolution easy

240

Really powerful

250

Free, widespread

141

1472

1241

18

One stop solution

109

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

467

Great community

99

56

295

33

A/B Testing Subject Lines

440

Great way to share

187

74

63

Full integration with webhooks

290

Developer friendly

7

Great customer support

33

249

151

Robust e-mail creation

585

493

39

15

14

607

360

444

188

Great documentation

341

704

Great for collaboration

563

124

Generous free allowance to get you started

225

Simple and reliable

40

Wordpress integration

514

471

Remote team collaboration

339

Really powerful

393

Easy management

246

Well-designed api

87

30

Broad feature set

1752

Open source friendly

171

3

3

Fully automated

267

328

215

Simple deployments

88

Customer support

66

114

1455

Easy source control

109

Custom templates

404

Comprehensive feature set

930

885

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

227

152

Beginner friendly

1112

Great for team collaboration

118

Integrates with a lot of external services

78

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

369

Huge time-saver

38

Great customer support

413

66

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

144

Desktop and mobile apps

455

278

166

615

159

Github integration

96

33

29

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

433

Pull request and features planning

57

Very powerful API

62

166

Github integration

1197

Easy to integrate with

870

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

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

285

216

Right out of github

58

Easy to find projects

97

812

Rapid integration and build up

133

17

701

644

38

Least cost (free) for the basic needs case

685

502

Testability and reproducibility

24

Limit resource usage

31

Great Customer Support

16

14

510

18

16

Hipchat integration

65

Email, text & twitter alerts

21

118

Built with node.js

439

113

340

106

518

247

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

241

291

Simple bootstraping

808

610

15

Heroku Integration

47

Postgres hosting

23

Awesome documentation

677

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

184

597

Programme friendly

107

Free Public Repos

100

456

615

29

Faster development

8

469

Convention over configuration

413

11

4

Easy implementation

60

122

99

Efficient background processing

198

71

11

Makes you a better coder

44

13

473

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

426

Enterprise class database

376

28

494

High availability

169

Great community

129

143

125

Secure by default

21

305

84

Great community

69

Mobile friendly

227

79

1262

350

82

596

Great community

337

829

Rapid development

638

267

Great libraries

255

102

341

82

Easy Database Migrations

25

61

14

Great community

16

41

Great Data Modeling

70

107

16

80

281

Great for startups

63

42

6

Simple installation

25

136

Cheap and simple

86

8

Easy to work with

6

Shared file hosting

659

397

942

156

283

964

Dom manipulation

629

582

136

Powerful one-liners

156

231

Meta-programming

106

Easy email integration!

11

364

1175

669

1546

766

370

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

866

1103

Lots of great frameworks

720

1568

Can be used on frontend/backend

47

64

270

55

201

527

Quick to develop

487

Great community

532

689

422

114

Isn't an mvc framework

103

Explicit app state

455

126

Syntactic sugar

749

Relational database

841

1435

Distributed version control system

302

965

24

43

82

322

Great integrations

245

12

5

8

42

9

32

Git Powered Wikis

31

Developer Profiles

10

Subscriber Analytics

159

144

165

36

9

142

132

352

Development environments

9

3

3

Internet calling

6

High-availability

2

3

6

78

Backed by amazon

78

20

23

Binary streaming

426

464

39

Maintainability

295

109

Selector inheritance

463

597

95

414

11

Dropbox Integration

18

Developer Friendly

24

Built by developers for developers

35

MVC - Easy to start on

15

Natural companion for rails development

27

Very powerful foundational front-end framework

1057

Efficient branching and merging

75

53

Has everything you need to get the job done

239

47

Great community

405

371

167

19

459

90

459

HTML, CSS, and JS framework

70

72

692

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

1437

It's everywhere

345

Easy formatting

125

High-performance

32

Distributed caching system

10

Works great with Flux Architecture

40

364

Great command-line application

19

Simple rollback

224

145

Backed by github

316

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

194

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

105

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

100

78

Slack integration

56

1

Offered by Redis Labs

181

398

274

Non-blocking i/o

34

273

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

69

23

Mac OS X support

2

Very chimp-like

23

Buffer from my browser; integrates with my work flow

13

No spam, phishing protection

84

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

357

465

264

Makes developing rest api's easy peasy

139

The best api workflow out there

144

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

30

7

20

25

285

18

Feature based workflow

53

Great grid system

14

Per-room notification

19

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

16

Everything you need without the bloat

14

42

Package control, modules

21

8

4

Industry Standard

7

Great tutorials

11

Uni-directional data flow

140

5

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

18

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

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

18

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

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

21

9

7

Search commit messages

6

Professional Features and Options

11

4

Remarkable uptime

29

2

Make sample API calls inside the docs

12

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

19

Great branch visualization

3

Powerful Search

7

Simpler than Pingdom

13

Easy to understand

10

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

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

1

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

5

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

4

Instant Purging

6

11

React integration

11

Automagic updates

13

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

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

7

Grid system break points aren't ideal

13

Slow with large files

11

Every site uses the defaults

32

Expensive for lone developers that want private repos

8

Really slow if you're not really careful

6

18

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

2

A little too flexible

3

No concept of velocity or points

4

Very light native integrations

20

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

8

Built on Electron

40

Great for note taking

6

Easy setup,great ui

6

High learning curve when compared to PaaS

3

Not a whole lot of flexibility

1

Great for caching HTML

1

No coding necessary

2

Feedback form on error pages

5

Efficient analysis

73

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

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

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

10

Can be distracting depending on how you use it

4

Requires some management for large teams

4

4

Hard to understand why things in your app are breaking

5

Visualizations aren't very helpful

7

16

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

3

Extremely reliable

4

1

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

11

Relatively slow product/feature release cadence

9

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

3

Fetching is slow sometimes

15

2

Changes pricing model all the time

6

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

5

2

Live events is overly complex feature

4

Sometimes inconsistent API

5

5

Encourages DOM as primary data source

17

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