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    Kickstarter Engineering

    kickstarter.engineering · Company blog · on HN since 2016

    The engineering blog of Kickstarter, covering code review practices, event sourcing, a Rails 5 migration, and open sourced mobile apps.

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    What HN says

    Commenters find its code review guide more useful than a follow-up article on the topic, and one ported its event sourcing framework to Go.

    Stats for nerds
    15HN people shared it
    13linked in comments
    807story points
    Jan 2020last shared
    2019people per year2020

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      Open sourcing our Android and iOS apps
      1 person · 571 points · first shared 2016 · 73 comments on HN
    2. 2
      Event Sourcing made Simple
      2 people · 205 points · first shared 2018 · 40 comments on HN
    3. 3
      How we built automated support at Kickstarter
      1 person · 16 points · first shared 2017 · 3 comments on HN
    4. 4
      Namespacing Actions for Redux – Kickstarter Engineering
      2 people · 5 points · first shared 2017 · Discussion on HN
    5. 5
      How Kickstarter migrated a 9 year old app to Rails 5
      2 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · Discussion on HN
    6. 6
      A Guide to Mindful Communication in Code Reviews
      2 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · Discussion on HN
    7. 7
      A Guide to Mindful Communication in Code Reviews
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2022 · Discussion on HN
    8. 8
      Leveraging Functional Programming and AWS Lambda to Drive ChatOps
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2016 · Discussion on HN
    9. 9
      Open sourcing our Android and iOS apps
      1 person · 1 points · first shared 2016 · Discussion on HN
    10. 10
      Return to the Temple of ELK-Emental Evil, Part 1
      1 person · 1 points · first shared 2018 · Discussion on HN

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • yepthatsrealityJan 2020

      Agreed it was a pretty poor read, no matter how many emojis the author uses. The linked material is a bit better. [0]

      [0] https://kickstarter.engineering/a-guide-to-mindful-communication-in-code-reviews-48aab5282e5e

    • z0mbie42Jan 2019

      Hi,

      I've ported the kickstarter's event sourcing framework (https://kickstarter.engineering/event-sourcing-made-simple-4...) to Go. It's similar to the flux architecture in the backend.

      Any feedback is welcome.

    • finaliterationJan 2020

      Agreed. I found the referenced article[0] far more useful as a guide for how rather than why.

      [0](https://kickstarter.engineering/a-guide-to-mindful-communication-in-code-reviews-48aab5282e5e?gi=62d1198915c3)

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