The Ups, downs and general musings of the engineering team at Birdie. Birdie is a software platform that allows the elderly to age independently at home.

Joined October 2022
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Another article from our Engineering department. This time @Marin_Gdt shares the tremendous improvements he was able to make to our developer experience when working with our React Native mobile app! medium.com/engineering-at-bi… #reactnative
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Another week, another nugget of literary knowledge from our engineering department! This time our superb DevOps engineer Harry Morgan is holding our hand through the chaotic world of disaster recovery. medium.com/engineering-at-bi… #devops #SoftwareEngineering
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Great read dissecting the core principles behind microservices and they're use-case blogs.newardassociates.com/b…

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Birdie's engineering department is bringing in the new year with some good old-fashioned sleuthing! Debugging Postgres isn't for the faint of heart! Luckily, our senior staff engineer @WilliamDCLT is happy to share his tips and tricks!!! medium.com/engineering-at-bi… #databases
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This looks cool! sst.dev/

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More jewels of wisdom from our engineering department. This time we're letting people in on how we manage to query monstrous amounts of data! medium.com/engineering-at-bi… #data #scaling
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We love this new course by @dan_abramov!!! justjavascript.com/ #javascript

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Here is an article from Hyosun Lee, a new intern at Birdie. We want to do whatever we can at Birdie to support those entering this industry and that starts with listening to the experiences of those doing so! medium.com/engineering-at-bi… @BirdieCare #womenintech #WomenInSTEM
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It's got more twists than a soap opera 🤣 x.com/tomgara/status/1587640…

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It’s pretty simple: Google Meet (original) was previously Meet, which was the rebranded Hangouts Meet. Meet has been merged with Google Duo, which replaced Google Hangouts. Google Duo has been renamed Meet, and Meet has been temporarily named Google Meet (original), for clarity
Another insightful read from the Birdie engineering department. This time from our senior engineer @emmamitchinson on how RFCs (Requests for Comment) allow you to explore, justify and document your technical decisions in a collaborative fashion! medium.com/engineering-at-bi…
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"This is the first class-action case in the US chal­leng­ing the train­ing and out­put of AI sys­tems. It will not be the last." theverge.com/2022/11/8/23446…

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Functional programming has a new champion. 😆
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It's so cool when products have "pro" user features, they're the easter eggs that keep on giving! mobile.twitter.com/KittyGira…

I just remembered Slack supports sed-like syntax to edit a message. 🤯 For instance: /s/great/amazing/ would replace the word “great” by “amazing” in the last message. 🔥
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