Great article from Affirm on their approach to metrics, #monitoring, and #alerting. See how they set up their system and team to offer up observability and reliability: tech.affirm.com/metrics-monito… #DevOps #SRE

Thank you 허비 👥 for writing this excellent post on how Affirm engineering profiles Gevent in Python - lnkd.in/gt7Hped lnkd.in/gTRqj7M

As we're reminded every Black Friday, proper infrastructure event readiness is key. Our very own Senior Software Engineer, Elaine Arbaugh, is speaking tonight at AWS Startups in #SanFrancisco about how to gracefully handle seasonal traffic spikes. bit.ly/2tBfGPj

As the holiday shopping frenzy comes off its initial peak, want to tip my hat to its unsung heroes: Infra & ops groups, SREs, etc — you know who you are. Your work, done well, is unseen — it all “just works.” So take a bow, and get some sleep, Infra teams Affirm and everywhere.

An exciting milestone for Affirm! We’re excited to announce our exclusive partnership with Shopify to power Shop Pay Installments, furthering our mission of bringing consumers more honest financial products.

We’re thrilled to announce a $500 million Series G round of funding and a new interest-free biweekly payment solution that allows consumers to split the total cost of purchases $50 or more, with no late or hidden fees. Read more here bit.ly/2ZM8KPT

Exciting announcement from Affirm today! The waitlist for the Affirm Card is live, sign up here: affirm.com/card

An exciting step forward as we expand our network — we’re partnering with @Amazon to deliver Affirm’s flexibility and transparency to select customers at checkout in the U.S. affirm.com/press/releases…

Neither. You promise to extend the platform but you need at least two years. In the meantime, you promise to build a patch to unblock things temporarily. Then, reorgs happen and everyone forgets the patch was a patch. Repeat this 100x times and that's how platforms evolve today.

Project Tiger - a film which showcases how India saved its tigers and all the ups and downs that have happened in the journey. Premier of the film is happening on 4th nov. You can click on the link to register free for the screening along with performance by Indian Ocean (1/2)

Added functions for derivative, distinct and more on our progress on the InfluxDB v0.9.0 release: influxdb.com/blog/2015/05/1…

Elasticsearch 1.6.0 released, with fast node restarts and much much more elastic.co/blog/elasticse…

Congrats to our boto friends on their boto3 release which includes support for Python 3. x.com/garnaat/status…

Exciting Affirm announcements coming Tuesday morning Money20/20!

You’ve heard the #docker hype. Here’s what we saw when we looked at real usage data - dtdg.co/dckr-adopt

Got a guided tour of Affirm's latest anti-fraud tools today. Amazing stuff. In 2 years we built better systems than took me 4+ at PayPal!

Join our Infrastructure team Affirm - We are looking for great SREs - jobs.lever.co/affirm/c29a345…

Good talk on GraphQL/Graphene by Syrus Akbary — eu/acc - speakerdeck.com/syrusakbary/gr… #djangocon

We're honored to be awarded #FinTech Innovator of the Year by LenDit. We can't wait to share where our commitment to #HonestFinance will lead us over the next year and beyond. #LenditFintech

Life at Affirm: Meet the CTO (Libor Michalek) linkedin.com/pulse/life-aff…