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Artsy Engineering
Company blog · artsy.github.io/blogprogrammingcareer
Artsy Engineering is the company blog at artsy.github.io, writing about programming and career. Since 2013, 58 different Hacker News readers have linked it 110 times, most often “Retrospective: Swift at Artsy After a Year of React Native”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (28) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Artsy's engineering blog, linked in HN threads for posts on GraphQL design and schema stitching, React Native adoption, Swift, open-source-by-default practice, and engineering culture.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 28 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Retrospective: Swift at Artsy After a Year of React Native5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-02-06
- DevSwap: An Experiment in Randomizing Teams3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-09-14
- Intro to React Native for an iOS Developer3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-07-06
- Is GraphQL the Future?2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-05-10
- Artsy's Engineering Compensation Framework2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-03
- GraphQL Stitching 1012 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-12-15
- Developing an Open Source iOS App with Swift2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-11-13
- Front-end JavaScript at Artsy in 20172 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-06
- TypeScript Magic2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-02
- Introduction to AWS OpsWorks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-08-29
What Hacker News says?
I've been thinking about this problem from the perspective of running an engineering team blog, Medium is a dependency that doesn't really pull its weight: http://artsy.github.io/blog/2019/01/30/why-we-run-our-blog/
Comment linking /blog/2019/01/30/why-we-run-our-blog/
on “Ending our Medium integration”Submitted Introduction to AWS OpsWorks as a story · 91 points
HN discussionArtsy | https://www.artsy.net | Full-stack developer | New York, NY (onsite) Artsy is redefining the way the world discovers art. Our mission is to make all the world’s art accessible to anyone with an Internet connection. I'm engineering lead for our auction products. I manage three talented full-stack engineers and I'm looking to hire an experienced engineer [1] to augment our team. We're a small team within the b…
Comment linking /blog/2015/04/03/artsy-engineering-compensation-framework/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)”Submitted Retain Scroll Position in Infinite Scroll as a story · 60 points
HN discussionArtsy ( https://www.artsy.net ) is hiring experienced engineers in New York | ONSITE. Bringing the world of Fine Art online. Get inspired: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-video-the-hist... Open-source: https://github.com/artsy Engineering blog: http://artsy.github.io Apply: https://www.artsy.net/jobs#engineering
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)”Submitted On the obsessive statelessness of Peril as a story · 21 points
HN discussionI personally strongly believe so: http://artsy.github.io/blog/2018/05/08/is-graphql-the-future... Don't get me wrong, some aspects of today's GraphQL are still a little rough around the edges, but I think it's a strong pointer towards the future of service integration.
Comment linking /blog/2018/05/08/is-graphql-the-future/
on “John Resig: Introducing the GraphQL Guide”Submitted How Artsy Hires Engineers as a story · 15 points
HN discussionArtsy.net | NYC | Experienced Full Stack & Data/ML | https://www.artsy.net | ONSITE - about: https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/18/15983712/artsy-fine-art-g... - apply: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-jobs-full-stack-software... - open-source by default: http://artsy.github.io , https://twitter.com/artsyopensource (maintainers of CocoaPods, Ruby Grape, Danger, etc.)
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)”Submitted Using Pattern Recognition to Automatically Crop Framed Art as a story · 14 points
HN discussionAt Artsy, my team of long-time native developers, started using React Native on valentine’s day 2016 in our pre-existing iOS app. Overall it has been a net-positive for us. In short, the developer experience and ability to be productive is much better, we now are able to leverage the product engineering skills from devs that would previously only work on web projects, and our initial tests in porting our React Nativ…
Comment linking /series/react-native-at-artsy/
on “Ask HN: Companies who adopted React Native over a year ago, do you regret it?”Submitted Building an English Auction With MongoDB as a story · 11 points
HN discussionArtsy, https://artsy.net and http://artsy.github.io , NYC. Experienced engineers only ATM, full stack or dev-ops focused. Exciting projects ahead. Prefer people with serious art passion or some art background. Email me db[at]artsy[dot]net or find us at Miami Basel this week.
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)”Submitted Artsy.net is now open source as a story · 9 points
HN discussionCongrats! Relay is what really sold our iOS-only native team to move to React Native. Very excited to migrate to modern version at some point in the future. ( http://artsy.github.io/blog/2017/02/05/Retrospective-Swift-a... )
Comment linking /blog/2017/02/05/Retrospective-Swift-at-Artsy/
on “Relay Modern: Simpler, faster, more extensible”Submitted Intro to React Native for an iOS Developer as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI totally agree with your first statement. But I think it is complete BS to say that Scala isn't good for "making software". The two most successful projects of my career were relied heavily on Scala to deliver robust product on aggressive timescales, with teams largely composed of first-time Scala users. You can read one of the stories here: http://artsy.github.io/blog/2016/08/09/the-tech-behind-live-... I'm not go…
Comment linking /blog/2016/08/09/the-tech-behind-live-auction-integration/
on “The myth of using Scala as a better Java”Submitted Migrating to PR Label Based Continuous Deployment as a story · 6 points
HN discussionWe do this at Artsy in production too, here's an overview of how it works for us: http://artsy.github.io/blog/2018/12/11/GraphQL-Stitching/
Comment linking /blog/2018/12/11/GraphQL-Stitching/
on “Principled GraphQL”Submitted React Native, 2 years later as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI've done it pretty successfully ( https://artsy.github.io/blog/2019/04/29/how-did-artsy-become... ) and now regularly look back at prior source code and blogs as I work on something else but with similar patterns I would say that getting to a point where this sort of thing is possible requires a huge amount of out-of-bounds culture and technical work though. Probably outside of the commitment range of folks who jus…
Comment linking /blog/2019/04/29/how-did-artsy-become-oss-by-default/
on “As an Employee, You Are Disposable (2023)”Submitted GraphQL Stitching 101 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI'd suggest looking at AWS OpsWorks, which is probably closest to what you're used to. http://www.stefanwrobel.com/heroku-to-opsworks http://artsy.github.io/blog/2013/08/27/introduction-to-aws-o...
Comment linking /blog/2013/08/27/introduction-to-aws-opsworks/
on “Goodbye Heroku”Submitted Is GraphQL the Future? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionArtsy did a randomized dev team swap, where team leads stayed and everyone under shuffled: https://artsy.github.io/blog/2017/09/11/DevSwap/
Comment linking /blog/2017/09/11/DevSwap/
on “I push, therefore I am: two days at Etsy (2013)”Submitted Retrospective: Swift at Artsy After a Year of React Native as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI've been a Cocoa dev for 10+ years, and I have been doing React Native for a few months while the team I work in has been doing it longer. ( http://artsy.github.io/series/react-native-at-artsy/ ) The general things Cocoa could improve from JS: * State Management * View lifecycle management * JSON -> UI (this became a lot worse with Swift) * Developer Happiness ( e.g. compare https://github.com/orta/vscode-jest to T…
Comment linking /series/react-native-at-artsy/
on “Katana – Modern Swift framework for creating iOS apps, inspired by React/Redux”Submitted Aspect-Oriented Programming and ARAnalytics as a story · 5 points
HN discussionYeah - not really a post mortem, is it? "We had a bug and we fixed the bug." They could probably cut and paste that same page for 90% of future outages. Maybe they need to read this: https://artsy.github.io/blog/2014/11/19/how-to-write-great-o...
Comment linking /blog/2014/11/19/how-to-write-great-outage-post-mortems/
on “Summary of June 8 outage”Submitted Rendering on the Server and Client in Node.js as a story · 5 points
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