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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 2 Aug 2017
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      Thing I learned at Stripe: make an extra special effort to make sure your internal tooling is compulsively composable, like unix commands.

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    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 2 Aug 2017
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      This lets users of the system invent new use cases for it much, much faster than you can just write new features into the system.

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    3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 2 Aug 2017
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      Let's see, how would I analogize this to something almost every software company has on hand... OK, consider your admin dashboard.

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    4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 2 Aug 2017
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      You might do the first N features for your admin dashboard by just implementing them in Ruby or whatever in that codebase.

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    5. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 2 Aug 2017
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      Now consider any other tool you have like, I don't know, some sort of pub/sub system like NSQ or Kafka whatever you like.

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    6. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 2 Aug 2017
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      Your admin gets a *lot* more useful the nanosecond it can interact with the pub/sub system, in ways you won't appreciate for a while.

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    7. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 2 Aug 2017
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      And you probably have some way to make a message go to an arbitrary email address. Make sure that also interacts with the pub/sub system.

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    8. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 2 Aug 2017
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      And now suddenly, without explicit coordination at either end, your admin speaks email. (Which is a somewhat contrived, toy example.)

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    9. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 2 Aug 2017
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      I am occasionally awed by what non-engineer colleagues manage to coax out of a set of web interfaces that don't "know about" each other.

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 2 Aug 2017
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      In my previous life, I relied on "I'll just build a page in admin for that", and got huge mileage out of it, but O(N^2) a beautiful thing.

      2:15 AM - 2 Aug 2017
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