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Tools We Use To Release Pinterest

Tools We Use To Release Pinterest

We have a fairly flexible Continuous Delivery system at Pinterest. The tools we use are fairly accessible, so you can build your own Continuous Delivery system too. * Github Enterprise [http://enterprise.github.com/] is our version-control overlay. It manages code-reviews, facilitates code-merging, and most importantly has a great API. The

DRY with Jinja Templates

DRY with Jinja Templates

Jinja [http://jinja.pocoo.org/] is a great templating language that's used with Python. One of the easiest ways to not repeat yourself in Jinja is to use macros. Let's say you want to build a blog. You may want a blog that makes HTML like this:

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Using git to borrow from the future

Using git to borrow from the future

One of the great features of git is the ability to re-order commits, break commits into parts, and merge commits together. Assuming that my master branch is a pristine copy of the site and an ancestor of mybranch we can re-order commits by running: git rebase -i master This will

Database versus files for Images

Database versus files for Images

Update 2 January 2021: This was written in 2009 when virtual private servers were the rage, so I've updated it slightly to deal with our new cloud overlords. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Where should uploaded assets go? A habit I once had was to store the uploaded content (including images) in a database.