January 2012
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December 2011
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Interns point of view at Gilt. →
gilt-tech:
I arrived at 2 Park Ave on the first day of my internship not quite sure what I was getting myself into. I had just finished my sophomore year at Dartmouth and was looking forward to my first time living in New York City. My sophomore year was packed with computer science. I had taken the…
October 2011
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Gilt's Tech Event!
gilt-tech:
Thanks to everyone that braved the rain and showed up for Gilt’s Exotic Programming Languages and the Web Tech Talk this Wednesday. We had a great turnout and some awesome speakers.
The talks
Scala: Nathan Hamblen, organizer of ny-scala meetups
Clojure: David Nolen, lead Developer for Shiftspace
Jean Barmash: organizer of the Groovy / Grails Meetups
Andrew Pliszka:...
July 2011
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Gilt Technologie: Welcome to the Mothership →
gilt-tech:
In the summer of 2010, our Ops team was tasked with migrating our production systems from one hosting platform to another and immediately began to take stock of the challenges presented by our tools and processes. At Gilt, we make extensive use of both Cobbler and Puppet for our provisioning…
June 2011
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Gilt Technologie: Gilt Technologie goes Global →
gilt-tech:
Gilt Technologie is all about leveraging leading-edge technology to build and operate the most reliable and scalable e-commerce platform in the marketplace.
However, recently, the organization took on a whole new challenge - maximize our ability to attract the very best in talent world-wide by…
May 2011
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April 2011
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Gilt Technologie: Presentation: Building a... →
gilt-tech:
Slides and video from Eric Shepherd’s presentation given at Gilt HQ and at the Brooklyn JavaScript Meetup:
Summary
For modules to function within a large-scale system and on third-party sites, they need to be self-contained units with minimal dependencies. They also need to keep their hands off…
March 2011
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February 2011
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this has to be one of the funniest things i’ve seen.. but at the same time, i really wouldn’t be THAT surprised if it took off.
http://tcrn.ch/hkLh9j
January 2011
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stack vs quora? →
not really sure how I feel about this. anyone have any thoughts on stack vs quora?
how much is too much
So I wonder. I feel bad for not updating all these things enough but then again… quite happy that everything gets integrated from tumblr -> linkedin -> facebook -> twitter.
So, consider this a post and i’ll have something more insightful to say the next time :)
Planning an IPO? 404 says otherwise
Linkedin announces IPO! but then the sites down. Always amusing :)
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7050DC20110106
December 2010
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go benny gooooo
niceee
http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/27/flicksquare/
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interested in seeing what kind of snowstorm this turns out to be..
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““The best way to avoid failure is to fail constantly.”
Not only...”
– http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/5-lessons-weve-learned-using-aws.html
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Need a car?
A brand new Jetta for 6k.. sounds too good to be true? Guess not.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/13/gilt-gives-the-ultimate-auto-deal-for-christmas-10000-off-a-jetta/
Watchflorentblings:
Kevin Ryan on Groupon
Definitely makes me wonder what else you can do out east that’s been done here and make a ton of money off of…. http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/08/ipo-youku-3-3-billion-more-than-aol/
November 2010
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Awesome article!! http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/26/gilt-groupe/
so.... vacation is right around the corner
I’ll be going to South Korea for a couple of days and then I find this out..
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-11-23/n-korea-attack-on-south-kills-two-sets-homes-ablaze.html
Going to be an interesting one.
Only a matter of time before its officially called... →
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