I 100% agree. I have been able to get started super quickly with small projects using Rails. Such a blessing!

Man I really want better analytics and UI for my IoT apps at home. Right now the apps we use are in their infancy compared to what they could be. I feel like we are in web 1.0 of the IoT apps. And the issue is I end up relying on such apps quite a bit. For eg I used the awair app to change the ducting for my home because of its air quality sensor. Hoping companies like Kraftful can disrupt this space.

Renat from Kraftful here. Great to hear! Awair is actually one of the companies that just started using Kraftful Analytics in beta.

https://www.getawair.com/ - works pretty well. but its not cheap. Also its for indoor air quality monitoring.

Do the sensors need Internet access or can they send to something on the local network?

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Square also its online schema migration tool that is open source here: https://github.com/square/shift

Its pretty cool. Check it out as well.

That's not a schema migration tool per-se. It's a web interface for managing running a schema migration tool (in their case the venerable pt-osc, but there is an open issue for supporting gh-ost too).

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I wish we take from this not that uber has a toxic culture (it may well have that) - but rather see if there are lessons here to help improve their own company cultures. The cost of a good culture is constant vigilance and such blogposts raise important questions. We should introspect and ask - does this happen at my company? What can I do to change this?

Apart from the obvious concurrency based or non-easily reproducible issues, some of my personal nightmare scenarios:

1. Uncommented code, but especially uncommented regular expressions 2. Unnecessary abstraction that runs too deep & so is hard to comprehend 3. Also, take any tractable problem and add timezones to it. Now you have an intractable problem!