principal eng @airbnb infra. previously @expo_io, @ChalkChisel
Baltimore, MD
Joined June 2008
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Adam Miskiewicz retweeted
new post: the senior engineer death spiral
sunilpai.dev/posts/the-senio…
a friend just started a big job and asked for some advice. so I braindumped a monologue about a super common failure mode I see with engineers and posted it here, hope it helps whoever it can.
We open-sourced an early preview of Viaduct last September at GraphQL Conf. We're excited to announce that 1.0 is here! The team has been working diligently on this release, and through that hard work, Viaduct continues to mature. We're excited to share it with the world!
Viaduct 1.0 is here 🎉 Our GraphQL data mesh has gone from internal tool to community-driven, production-ready open source. Stable API, Maven Central releases, open RFCs. Read more 👇 medium.com/airbnb-engineerin… #GraphQL #OpenSource
Adam Miskiewicz retweeted
🙌 Expo is the best it's ever been, and it's about to get a lot better.
We raised a Series B so we can go faster on the things that matter to you: faster builds, smoother native integrations, and the services to make end-to-end app development a delightful experience.
There is a lot of work to do. This round led by @Georgian_io puts us in position to go do it!
Respect.
A statement from Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, on our discussions with the Department of War.
anthropic.com/news/statement…
Adam Miskiewicz retweeted
Adam Miskiewicz is a Principal Software Engineer at @Airbnb where he works on Viaduct. He joins @GregorVand to discuss Viaduct’s origins, scaling GraphQL, open-sourcing the platform, and the future of backend systems in an AI world.
@skevy
softwareengineeringdaily.com…
This has been pretty much the only thing I’ve thought about at work for the past 6 years. Excited to see it break out of the walls of Airbnb!
We’re excited to open source our data-oriented service mesh, Viaduct, which already hosts over 1.5M lines of Airbnb code. Learn more about how it can help teams scale massive graphs and join the community. bit.ly/3K8A0lN
Adam Miskiewicz retweeted
🎉 Happy 10th Birthday, @GraphQL! 🎂
What a ride. And what a story!
A story so cool we made a documentary about its creation a while ago. If you feel like walking down memory lane, here it is :)
Featuring: @schrockn @leeb @dlschafer @skevy @sachee @bswinnerton @kylemathews & Garrett Heinlen.
youtu.be/783ccP__No8
Anyone in the GraphQL world looking for a job? @Airbnb is hiring for our Client Data & Networking team, which works on our core GraphQL client libraries across Web/iOS/Android (among other things). Awesome opportunity! DM if interested. careers.airbnb.com/positions…
Adam Miskiewicz retweeted
At @Airbnb, while we appreciated the flexibility of Ruby on Rails earlier on, it absolutely became unsuitable at scale (both traffic and organizationally) and we had to work miracles while replacing much of it with java microservices.
Gotta love the pivot from "it doesn't scale" to "you can't write real systems without types" as the new ding-dong argument against dynamically-typed languages like Ruby (and vanilla JavaScript and Smalltalk and...). rubyonrails.org
Adam Miskiewicz retweeted
You told us what you don’t like about Airbnb. Here are the 50 things we’re doing about it...
Adam Miskiewicz retweeted
Orange is the New Black
For years, liberals complained that African-Americans were unfairly targeted by law enforcement, but now a former president of a decidedly different hue is crying foul.
by Maureen Dowd
Adam Miskiewicz retweeted
Weekend Project Just Dropped:
⭐Structural Alignment of LLMs⭐
The genius of ChatGPT is that it puts an incredibly forgiving and flexible entity (a human) between a model and the rest of the world to course correct it when it goes haywire.
But... 1/6
Adam Miskiewicz retweeted
truth developers don't want to accept:
- staging and production will never be identical
- production is unpredictable and all states cannot be captured by your testing suite
- problems that you really care about only happen in production
- testing in production works
Adam Miskiewicz retweeted
10/10 would recommend booking an @Airbnb Experience if you’re wanting to do local activities without any planning while traveling. I went on a delicious street food tour in Bangkok that had 2 Michelin star stops, eating things I never would’ve tried or found on my own. – at Bangkok, Thailand
