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    1. Zac Sweers‏ @ZacSweers 10 Dec 2020

      The LinearAlloc issue dovetailed with a larger effort around performance analysis after, leading to Nanoscope getting open sourced

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    2. Zac Sweers‏ @ZacSweers 10 Dec 2020

      A lot of this OSS work I think really helped uber's engineering reputation within the mobile community. While the rest of uber's reputation was largely in the gutter for justified reasons, mobile carried a degree of respect that I think wasn't fully appreciated until too late

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    3. Zac Sweers‏ @ZacSweers 10 Dec 2020

      (too late meaning: almost none of the people that open sourced the projects you've heard of are still at uber today)

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    4. Zac Sweers‏ @ZacSweers 10 Dec 2020

      There's a lot of other fun or nutty stories. Mobile platform had a visionary EM in the form of @lukestclair, and someone I owe a lot of my own career growth to.

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    5. Zac Sweers‏ @ZacSweers 10 Dec 2020

      CI infra is probably another thread's worth that @loyaltyarm should write. Turns out when you blow up your build system, you also blow up your CI.

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    6. Zac Sweers‏ @ZacSweers 10 Dec 2020

      There were a few emails throughout of "are we redlining?" or "are we missing a bigger picture?". Directors were... imo, not as receptive to these as they should have been.

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    7. Zac Sweers‏ @ZacSweers 10 Dec 2020

      I was a "no time for fools" type of asshole for much of this time. Working on a platform team in such a big project can get to your head, and I owe a lot to my teammates for mentoring me out of that at the time.

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    8. Zac Sweers‏ @ZacSweers 10 Dec 2020

      Turns out a really great way to get server-side validation of API responses is have the director's internal beta app break when he's trying to get a ride home one night. That resulted in an angry 7pm meeting with 3 teams

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    9. Zac Sweers‏ @ZacSweers 10 Dec 2020

      Feature teams were incredibly crunched. Some worse than others. One had a huge charter but also had their EM fired, were remote from HQ, & in general struggled through much of it.

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    10. Zac Sweers‏ @ZacSweers 10 Dec 2020

      Took a lot of flights between offices and pulling engineers onto it to finish, but those are also some of the most valuable relationships I gained from this time because they were great colleagues.

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      Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 10 Dec 2020
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