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Lewis Ellis

Lewis Ellis

@lewisjellis

Engineer interested in social platforms. Interned at App dot net back in the day. Currently @ Pave, previously in edtech and devtools. Into JS, TS, Node, Lua, Redis, SQL, numbers, security, perf, and penguins.

San Francisco

Joined February 2023

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Lewis Ellis

@lewisjellis·
always love discord's eng blog: discord.com/blog/how-discord-stores-trillions-of-messages...

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michaelgreer

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ex-Discord eng leader here! We had a formula we always used: - state a hard problem, and be sure to _tell a story_ - talk about the different solutions, stay technical - go through what didn't work: thats the best part - use "we" throughout: no ones solves these alone

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Lewis Ellis

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this is Libby. she has no idea how the duck got like that #dogsofT2

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Lewis Ellis

@lewisjellis·
Replying to@janani
even if you create a vision/strategy that people agree on paper to follow how do you keep folks committed to that when it gets hard? how do you back it up? are people empowered to stand up for the strategic choices?

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Lewis Ellis

@lewisjellis·
is it just me or did user IDs just jump from 170 to 186? where did 171-185 go?

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Gabor Cselle

@gabor·
Great question, will investigate!

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Lewis Ellis

@lewisjellis·
Replying to@gabor
you'd think it should be rare, right, but i have somehow seen it 3 times in my career! seemingly a far more common mixup than i would have ever expected

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Lewis Ellis

@lewisjellis·
never ever ever let your app servers and your DB be in different regions it's so, so much worse than you think "but i wanted app servers more central to users, and my DB was hard to move" does not hold up. 1 app <> DB roundtrip, you're back to breakeven; 2 and you're behind.

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Lewis Ellis

@lewisjellis·
Replying to@joegaudet
haven't finished it yet, but really enjoyed everything in "Engineering Management for the Rest of Us" so far: engmanagement.dev/...

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Joe Gaudet

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Awesome, I've been following Sarah for years.

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Lewis Ellis

@lewisjellis·
just thought of a great meme riff, so now i’m waiting patiently for t2 to add image support 🙃

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Gabor Cselle

@gabor·
Working on it!

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Lewis Ellis

@lewisjellis·
Replying to@gabor
but imagine the met gala afterparty you could throw

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Gabor Cselle

@gabor·
seriously!

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Lewis Ellis

@lewisjellis·
Replying to@gabor
seeing the same - i think we can only repost a post if it has not been reposted by anyone else yet. any post that has already been reposted (by anyone, not just me) shows a green repost button (as if i've reposted it) and the "un-repost" dialogue option

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Gabor Cselle

@gabor·
Thank you Lewis! Aiming to fix this in tomorrow's build.

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