Post-Mortems at HubSpot: What I Learned From 250 Whys
At HubSpot, for the past two years, we've modeled our post-mortems on Eric Ries's 5 Whys. When we started, I served as the facilitator for basically ...
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Dan Milstein
The Self-Referential, Executable svn Commit Message
A month or so back, the HubSpot svn repo began to approach commit number 50,000. And, amid the idle banter about how best to celebrate the event, my ...
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Aug 9, 2010
Who Loves the Magic Undocumented Hive Mapjoin? This Guy.
So, I've got this nice Hive join statement, joining a tiny little partition from one table against a sizable set of partitions from another. And I'm ...
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Nov 6, 2009
Hadoop World, NYC 2009
On the train back from New York, where I just caught the very first Hadoop World, NYC conference, along with a few HubSpot friends (Steve Laniel, ...
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Oct 3, 2009
My Best Moment at Work, Lately
Working on our spiffy new Analytics app (soon to be released to customers), ran into a severe bottleneck getting our summarized data out of Hadoop ...
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Sep 28, 2009
Bruce Schneier and xkcd walk into a bar...
A somewhat astonishingly good explanation of AES via stick figures (yep, stick figures):
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Sep 24, 2009
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