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nerds.airbnb.com is the company blog at nerds.airbnb.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2010, 110 different Hacker News readers have linked it 152 times, most often “Isomorphic JavaScript: The Future of Web Apps”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 5 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Airbnb's engineering blog for posts on isomorphic JavaScript, Rendr, SmartStack, testing, Docker deployment and data tools. Commenters cite it as a source, and a few point to its talks as worth watching.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Isomorphic JavaScript: The Future of Web Apps12 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2013-11-11
- Airbnb - Switching to a HTML5 Photo Manager9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2011-08-29
- Introducing SmartStack: Service Discovery in the Cloud9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2013-10-23
- Our First Node.js App: Backbone on the Client and Server7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2013-01-30
- Engineering Culture at Airbnb4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-06-05
- Testing at Airbnb4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-02-27
- Airflow: a workflow management platform – Airbnb Engineering4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-06-04
- Hacking Word-of-Mouth: Making Referrals Work for Airbnb3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-03-27
- Introducing Chronos: A Replacement for Cron3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-07-09
- Scaling Data Science at Airbnb2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-07-07
What Hacker News says?
Airbnb blog post from 2013 how they share code between client and server: http://nerds.airbnb.com/isomorphic-javascript-future-web-app...
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on “Next.js – A small framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript apps”Submitted We've Open-sourced Rendr as a story · 230 points
HN discussion"The time for Dockers and containers isn't quite today, but it's very close." Hmmm ... tell that to AirBnb ( http://nerds.airbnb.com/future-app-deployment/ ), New Relic ( https://blog.newrelic.com/2014/08/12/docker-centurion/ ) and Spotify ( https://blog.docker.com/2014/06/dockercon-video-docket-at-sp... ) It is a young technology, but moving quickly. Just 10 years ago, YouTube wasn't owned by Google yet and we didn…
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on “Why Docker Is Not Yet Succeeding Widely in Production”Submitted Our First Node.js App: Backbone on the Client and Server as a story · 224 points
HN discussion"One problem is not many tests. Tests aren’t needed because there’s a great community... If users find any problems with it they report the bugs that they’ve found." I'm often surprised at the paucity of test-coverage in relatively large companies. http://nerds.airbnb.com/testing-at-airbnb/
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on “StackOverflow Update: 560M Pageviews a Month, 25 Servers”Submitted Testing at Airbnb as a story · 197 points
HN discussionAirbnb - San Francisco We love you. https://www.airbnb.com/careers/departments/engineering http://nerds.airbnb.com/
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)”Submitted Isomorphic JavaScript: The Future of Web Apps as a story · 177 points
HN discussionI had asked a similar question on Quora [1] few years back. Here is the summary: - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Engineering?sk=notes - Google: http://google-engtools.blogspot.com/ - Twitter: http://engineering.twitter.com/ - Linkedin: http://engineering.linkedin.com/blog - Dropbox: https://tech.dropbox.com/ - Instagram: http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/ - Netflix: http://techblog.netflix.com/ - Flickr:…
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on “Ask HN: Which companies have the best blogs written by their engineering team?”Submitted Architecting a Machine Learning System for Risk as a story · 173 points
HN discussionGreat design + engineering teams = Awesome products Instagram ( https://engineering.instagram.com/ ) Stripe ( https://stripe.com/blog/engineering ) Airbnb ( http://nerds.airbnb.com/ )
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on “Ask HN: Which companies have the best blogs written by their engineering team?”Submitted Experiments at Airbnb as a story · 164 points
HN discussionhttp://nerds.airbnb.com/isomorphic-javascript-future-web-app...
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on “Yahoo stopping all new development of YUI”Submitted Introducing Chronos: A Replacement for Cron as a story · 149 points
HN discussionThe two are not necessarily mutually exclusive, especially with JavaScript frameworks you can run on the server to render the initial page, which then gets wired up to the client-side application. i.e. "Isomorphic JavaScript" [1][2] [1] http://nerds.airbnb.com/isomorphic-javascript-future-web-app... [2] http://isomorphic.net/
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on “Curl, 17 years old today”Submitted Redshift Performance and Cost as a story · 145 points
HN discussionKubernetes is complex — no matter where you run it. Docker itself is also complex; any orchestration/scheduling system layered on top of it will by definition add a dynamism that involves complicated things happening whenever something needs to be shuffled around. Kubernetes makes some good design decisions. For example, you can kill the master and the cluster will continue to work just fine, except no scheduling wi…
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on “Learn Docker by building a Microservice”Submitted How to Make Easy & Flexible Star Ratings as a story · 129 points
HN discussionAurbnb wrote a set of apps they dub "smart stack" which do the haproxy config for you. http://nerds.airbnb.com/smartstack-service-discovery-cloud/
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on “Getting Started with Docker”Submitted How We Partitioned Airbnb’s Main Database in Two Weeks as a story · 97 points
HN discussion348 according to http://www.quora.com/Airbnb-in-2015/How-many-front-end-engin... , assuming all 'nerds' are engineers, which usually isn't true of course, but http://nerds.airbnb.com makes me think maybe they are.
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on “How to Onboard Software Engineers”Submitted Introducing SmartStack: Service Discovery in the Cloud as a story · 94 points
HN discussionI agree with your point that it might be worth paring back features to improve code quality. But there is no one true code to test ratio. If you're trying to become a better programmer be wary of dogma. As posted here the other day, airbnb didn't have much testing until a year ago: http://nerds.airbnb.com/testing-at-airbnb/ I'm not saying either way is right or wrong, which is kind of my point.
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on “Confessions of an Intermediate Programmer”Submitted MySQL in the cloud at Airbnb as a story · 90 points
HN discussionAirBnB went to a lot of trouble to make their Backbone app render on both the client and server-side, without need for building different views for each: http://nerds.airbnb.com/weve-open-sourced-rendr-run-your-bac... . This is a pretty awesome solution for those using Node.
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on “Understanding web pages better”Submitted Upgrading Airbnb from Rails 2.3 to Rails 3.0 as a story · 84 points
HN discussionAfaik Ruby 1.9.3 -> 2.0 was less painful than getting from 1.8.7 to 1.9.3. See http://nerds.airbnb.com/upgrading-from-ree-187-to-ruby-193/
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on “PEP 492 – Coroutines with async and await syntax”Submitted Mapping the World as a story · 78 points
HN discussionIt means that it can be used on client and server. Its a term coined by (I believe) the nodejitsu people in this article [0]. Airbnb also used the term to describe their rendr library [1] which aims to allow exactly that: rendering on both client and server [0] http://blog.nodejitsu.com/scaling-isomorphic-javascript-code... [1] http://nerds.airbnb.com/isomorphic-javascript-future-web-app...
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on “React: Finally, a great server/client web stack”Submitted HTTP+JSON Services in Modern Java as a story · 76 points
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