philipkimmey (u/philipkimmey)

philipkimmey commented on Ask HN: Did you find AirPods pro 2 a worthy upgrade to AirPods pro · Posted by u/dominotw

It feels like a very minor upgrade.

The only thing that seems improved is that transparency mode seems closer to true “transparency” but it’s a relatively subtle improvement.

philipkimmey commented on Probiotic that produces lactase enzymes directly in gut bactose.com/... · Posted by u/mataug

Bactories · 4 years ago

We will be releasing our GMO version in 2022. I anticipate its efficacy to be incredible. We will be performing quite a few safety studies ahead of this release.

The site is brand new, please give it time, my cofounder has remade the site 3 times in the past 7 months, he promises this is the last time though (for now haha).

philipkimmey · 4 years ago

I would suggest a deeper scan of the site for copy editing - there’s at least one mention of “diary” when “dairy” is clearly intended.

(I’d probably wait for more usage and supporting evidence before trying something like this, but the prospect of no-regrets dairy consumption is very appealing.)

philipkimmey commented on DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering iximiuz.com/en/posts/devo... · Posted by u/limonod

philipkimmey · 4 years ago

Well, thought I’d share my personal experience and the focus areas of our platform engineering team, since the DevOps/SRE definitions are more-or-less correct.

I’ve seen Platform Engineering take various different forms, but it’s current incarnation is split into 2 teams:

1. Developer Productivity. Ownership of quality, efficiency, and developer tools. A recent example project was improving the quality of our test data capabilities to make manual testing easier/more consistent.

2. Unified Client Platform. This team owns our design system and is the primary owner of our effort to unify on React.js/React Native, though a lot of the heavy lifting is distributed around the team.

(I mostly wanted to weigh in since at a mid-sized company at least, we’re not interested in building our own PaaS… k8s or Lambda is fine for that. Instead, we want to ensure developer onboarding is painless and anything specific to us is easily understood - the bulk of the surface area should be best-in-class 3rd party tools or ideally popular OSS frameworks.)

philipkimmey commented on Handling 100 Requests per Second with Python and Django ethicalads.io/blog/2021/0... · Posted by u/davidfischer

davidfischer · 4 years ago

Postgres is mostly bored (CPU sub 20% utilized) with 60 write requests per second which is normal peak traffic. Even traffic spikes to 100-120 don't usually change that much.

As our ad network grows though, everything has to grow pretty linearly (writes, reads, requests, etc.) and I hope our approach will continue to work well even with double or triple these numbers.

philipkimmey · 4 years ago

Fairly common practice for Postgres setups is to sit pgbouncer (https://www.pgbouncer.org/) between your app process and your Postgres instance.

Connection setup/tear-down is cheap in MySQL but expensive in Postgres.

philipkimmey commented on Ask HN: What does your Python in Production stack look like? · Posted by u/rory_isAdonk

rory_isAdonk · 5 years ago

logging and metrics?

philipkimmey · 5 years ago

Splunk and datadog

philipkimmey commented on Ask HN: What does your Python in Production stack look like? · Posted by u/rory_isAdonk

philipkimmey · 5 years ago

Not sure exactly what you’re looking for, but here are the key bits and pieces:

- uwsgi - Python - Django - Docker - k8s

Then the bits and pieces outside of the Python stack itself -

- MySQL and Postgres - memcached - redis - RabbitMQ

philipkimmey commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017) · Posted by u/whoishiring

philipkimmey · 8 years ago

Rover.com | Sr. Software Engineer | Seattle | Full-time, Onsite

We believe that everyone should be able to experience the unconditional love of a dog. That’s why Rover’s innovative platform makes it easy for pet owners to connect with 5-star pet sitters and dog walkers across the U.S.

We've raised $150mm+ ($200mm+ if you include DogVacay, which we merged with this year) and the business is growing quickly. We want to grow our engineering team by 30 or 40 engineers over the next year or two to support our ambitions of becoming the one-stop-shop for everything dog related.

Our backend is predominantly Django and we're looking for engineers across the board, but our primary focus is people with significant Python experience in a web context. (Flask/Pyramid/whatever experience is great!)

You can check out our specific postings at https://www.rover.com/careers/ or shoot me an email at (my-first-name)@rover.com if you have questions or want to learn more.

philipkimmey commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017) · Posted by u/whoishiring

philipkimmey · 8 years ago

Rover.com | Sr. Software Engineer | Seattle | Full-time, Onsite

We believe that everyone should be able to experience the unconditional love of a dog. That’s why Rover’s innovative platform makes it easy for pet owners to connect with 5-star pet sitters and dog walkers across the U.S.

We've raised $150mm+ ($200mm+ if you include DogVacay, which we merged with this year) and the business is growing quickly. We want to grow our engineering team by 30 or 40 engineers over the next year or two to support our ambitions of becoming the one-stop-shop for everything dog related.

Our backend is predominantly Django and we're looking for engineers across the board, but our primary focus is people with significant Python experience in a web context. (Flask/Pyramid/whatever experience is great!)

You can check out our specific postings at https://www.rover.com/jobs/ or shoot me an email at (my-first-name)@rover.com if you have questions or want to learn more.