Anatoliy Zaslavskiy

As we're getting ever-closer to closing the doors at InVision, I've been feeling an increasing amount of stress and anxiety. I'm not one for meditation, but I do like the idea of a breathing exercise to calm the nerves. As such, I thought it would be fun to use #JavaScript and #AlpineJS to build a small guided "box breathing" exercise that leverages the SpeechSynthesis API for vocalization. Read more: https://bennadel.com/4743

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At InVision, we worked with some amazing software vendors. I know I've talked about most of these in the past; but, I just want to give a final shout-out to some of my favorites: * LaunchDarkly - feature flags completely changed the way we approached product development. And, allowed us to all but eliminate our incidents and outages (shameless plug for my own book: https://lnkd.in/ehxiy6bY). * Postmark - delivered all of our outbound emails and powered our inbound reply-by-email workflows with flawless uptime and befuddling performance. * Pusher - powered our real-time collaboration via WebSockets, bringing our UIs to life and keeping browsers synchronized. * Intergral | FusionReactor APM - gave us deep insights into our JVM performance, allowing us to track down SQL, API, and processing bottlenecks. * Datadog - truly world-class metrics, alerting, and monitoring. * Adobe ColdFusion / Lucee CFML - the programming language and application server that allowed us to move fast, keep things simple, respond to users, and build wonderful things. * Cloudflare - your CDN, WAF, and web workers took a beating so that our origin servers could stay online. * Amplitude - connected me to the users by giving us insight into what our users were actually doing (or not doing). At one point, I think we had over 300 different SaaS subscriptions; so this list is faaaaar from exhaustive. And, I'm sure I'm forgetting other beloved services. And, many of our teams worked with entirely different technologies. This is just my little corner of the organization. And, I couldn't have done it without them. Thank you so much! ❤️

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How do you keep engineering teams aligned with business goals while embracing innovation? Ada, the world’s leading customer service automation company, found the answer with Jellyfish. When pivoting to a generative-first strategy, Ada faced a key challenge: balancing innovation with supporting existing customers. They needed clarity on how their teams worked and invested their time. With Jellyfish, they achieved: 🚀 A 14% improvement in cycle times 🎯 Ranked in the top 97th percentile for “days with commits” 📈 Over 10% growth in technical investments “Jellyfish has become our go-to dashboard to understand how we’re operating as a team at a glance,” says William Mora, Head of Engineering at Ada. Now, Ada’s team is striking the perfect balance—focusing on reliability, experimentation, and investments that drive their business forward. Read the full story. Link in comments👇

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Excited to be part of NY Tech Week! 🎉 Come see me and let's talk tech. Whether you have questions, want to start or scale your business, or are interested in a quick intro to AI as a productivity tool, drop by and say hello! Let's innovate together. 🚀 #NYTechWeek #Innovation #AI #BusinessGrowth

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Polls can be a cheat code for earned media, and a great way to build authority. But there are levels to this. Here's how one of the best I've seen - Capital One - does it. (And what I'd do differently to increase earned coverage). Led by Shena Ashley, PhD, Capital One's Insights Center is a masterclass in leveraging polls to create unique insights that would do incredibly well via earned syndication. Here’s what they do great: ✅ Content that sticks: Crucial issues > fleeting trends. Focusing on topics like financial stability, mobility, and entrepreneurship, it's easier to rationalize investment on topics with a longer shelf life. Their insights + stories can drive coverage for months to come. ✅ Visual storytelling: Data doesn’t have to be dry, and Capital One presents original insights through clear and eye-pleasing visuals that are easy to understand. Publishers like charts, they love colorful charts, and they LOVE colorful charts that are easy to understand. Check, check, check. ✅ Strong methodologies and extensive polling numbers: Capital One frequently involves 7k+ participants in their studies - they are not half a**ing it. Well explained methodologies are table stakes to get your polls covered, and Capital One does a great job outlining their data collection process, sample size, and research methodologies.   ✅ Easy to steal: Each report has multiple easy to take stories/soundbites, and are also written as full pieces of content, which can be taken as whole. Finally --- if I could change one thing... Add a byline. Brand publishing NEEDS a byline - no news outlet wants to cover a story that can't be credited back to a human. All in all, polls can be incredibly valuable for driving earned syndication - check out Capital One's Insights Center in comments for killer examples.

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Product is fun, complex, messy, and there are no shortcuts. Once you accept that—and embrace it—amazing things happen to your career. Cat Hicks, PhD puts this better than anyone: "Doing research with developer teams, something that really strikes me is how much people look for ways to make complex problems easy rather than make it easy to work on complex problems What I mean is, sometimes it's really useful to admit we just are trying to accomplish tough things. Asking how we can support our teams who NEED the time and space to work through that, it's often a much more tractable lever than trying to change the inherent nature of the work I think it behooves me to say as a psychologist here that I think people are actually really excellent at working on complex problems! It's one of the reasons research with developers is so great. Overall devs love to learn, love to be curious, love to innovate. It is core stuff. What would it look like if we could ask, "how do I make this the absolute best environment for complex problem-solving" instead of "how do I take away all these annoying hard problems." The stuff we want to accomplish in the world is hard. But can be joyful to accomplish."

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This is not just any "hey, we are looking for a dev" post. This might be one of the most exciting engineering roles we have ever hired for. Let me explain why: I have the great privilege of being the product lead for the exceptionally brilliant Rendering Engine Team at Miro. Several months ago, we took a bold step to revamp our foundational rendering technology from the ground up, setting an ambitious vision far beyond what Miro is capable of today. Building a highly performant rendering engine for a product like Miro is not trivial though. You are dealing with an infinite 2D canvas with potentially thousands of multimedia objects, all while multiple people collaborate in real-time. We want professionals & creatives to spend the majority of their working days in Miro. Unfortunately, every lag when panning a large planning board, every jiggle effect due to low FPS when zooming out from a large planning session, and every slight delay when selecting hundreds of multimedia objects not only results in lost time but also slight frustration. It's that small, annoying feeling that something felt slightly slow, slightly not instant, slightly irritating. A products performance is not just about the time you lose; it is about the feeling this product gives you. On the other hand, we all know the feeling of delight when you do something complex in a product, and it happens instantaneously. That feeling that no matter what you do, no matter what workload you throw at an application, it will be responsive, fast, and instantaneous. This is what we envision: A rendering engine that continuously surprises you with its snappiness, making work feel light and delightful. We are looking for someone who is as equally annoyed by these issues as we are and wants to take the lead in solving them. We aim to build a rendering engine that raises the bar for what people consider possible on a web-based canvas. A computer graphics professional who wants to take on the challenge of working on a renderer that powers the day-to-day work of millions of users and some of the most creative and innovative companies in the world. If you work in the field of computer graphics and want to contribute to the heart of a product that aims to amplify collaboration and creative work, give it shot. Feel free to DM me for more information or directly apply below:

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Interesting article by Cindy Songné of Joveo regarding the recent announcement by Indeed that it was going to start charging $3 per API call to some of its customers and the reaction by some pundits that have attempted to brand this as a "tax". When is a "tax" not a tax? When it a fee charged to advertisers and intermediaries whose systems are so inefficient that they drive up Indeed's cost without affording Indeed the opportunity to recoup those costs. In other words, instead of these customers properly investing in their own systems, they've been subsidized by Indeed. We should not criticize one for-profit organization like Indeed for deciding that it no longer was willing to subsidize the business models of other for-profit organizations like some programmatic job ad distributors, applicant tracking systems, and others. https://lnkd.in/gzCNb7nQ

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Had a chat with Eric Meyer and Brian Kardell about CSS masonry, does it belong in the grid spec or not? With a bit of a discussion about how and why we ask for developer feedback on CSS. https://lnkd.in/d3C-_dwq #css

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Question for OfferZen users: Would you be interested in seeing our feature releases and product changelogs? Why/why not? Here's a recent one: https://lnkd.in/eUNcJC4j I'm playing around with Featurebase and wondering if it'd be useful to our customers. Thanks for the help!

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At Geisel Software, we’ve tackled some of the world’s toughest challenges - and the reason for our success comes down to one thing: **our people.** Great software engineers don’t just have a bag of skills. If you focus on finding someone who’s great at Typescript or React, you’re likely to find someone who’s…average. Why? Because most skills fall on a bell curve. The majority are in the middle. What sets great engineers apart isn’t their skillset, it’s their mindset. Great engineers: ✅ Think differently. ✅ Push themselves further and harder. ✅ See challenges as opportunities to innovate. At Geisel, we’ve shifted our focus to finding greatness in people. During our HR screens, we dig deep to uncover their potential, creativity, values, and drive. Once we find that greatness, we don’t micromanage. We give our team the freedom to grow, learn, and take risks. The results? Engineers who don’t just solve problems, but redefine what’s possible. When you bet on people, they’ll amaze you every time. What’s your approach to building a team?

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It turns out, the Long Island Sound IS water. For these and other insights, check out this post about our seed funding round. 😬 #startups #fundraising #newyork

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UPDATE: It's here! For anyone who missed my talk at this year's Product Collective (Acquired by Pendo) INDUSTRY, you can watch it right now (link in comments below). I'm already working on iterating with some great feedback from the conference, but you tell me - what else would you like to see? What's missing? What could be better? Hit me with that feedback 😎 #product #productmanagement #productstrategy #productleadership

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Launching "follow-ups" today, giving your coding test the ability to evaluate far more about your candidates. It's another step in creating a tech assessment that's (1) reliable for evaluators, and (2) more fair for candidates. Lots more coming!

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👩‍🚀 Fellow Tech People, we're exploring moving away from our custom API/websocket LLM interfacing at LEAGUES in favor of ELL. 🤔 The potential for streamlined API interactions, simplified prompt management, and reusable functions is really appealing. That said, I’m reaching out to the community: has anyone implemented ELL in production yet? I'm curious if ELL is the way to go for long-term scalability and maintenance reduction when interacting with LLMs. And what about Langchain—why choose one over the other? I'd love to hear your experiences and thoughts! #LEAGUES #ELL #Langchain #AI #TechInnovation

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🎉 Pendo Listen is now available on the Pendo One platform 🎉 Listen helps you turn customer feedback into actionable insights and build products your customers love. Listen enables you to capture feedback, validate ideas using Analytics and Guides, and make strategic roadmaps - so you can confidently prioritize your work and build products. Pendo is uniquely positioned to combine quantitative data (Analytics), qualitative data (Listen), and visual data (Session Replay) in a single platform. Best of all, Pendo Listen utilizes AI at every step to save you time and allow you to focus on what your customers need most. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eTPR4HiQ

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Question for engineering leaders (managers, directors, VP's, etc): I'm curious about the current landscape of developer productivity analysis + management tools - things like LinearB and Jellyfish. Which tool, if any, are you using? Any opinions/pros/cons on the tool you're using (or the entire domain overall)?

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I would highly recommend against writing your own authentication and identity management layer if you haven't done it before. Just don't. The folks at FusionAuth put out a both a cloud and on-prem version of their software and I highly recommend their platform over their competitors. I have used it on my own projects, they take security seriously. I've used some competing products from some big name players but they fell short in several aspects. Wanted to raise awareness about this company that truly listens to the developer community and is making great software.

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