Owning Your CODEOWNERS File

For when your CODEOWNERS file isn't working quite right Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash GitHub® CODEOWNERS files are a way to require pull request approvals from specific people before enabling merge. On the surface this is all very simple, but there are a number of gotchas that keep catching folks out. Pull Requests MUST contain the correct CODEOWNERS file A CODEOWNERS file is a lot like a .gitignore file and shares some…

How we designed our Continuous Integration System to be more than 50% Faster

Earlier this year, the Engineering Productivity team at Pinterest published a blog called How a one line change decreased our clone times by 99%. In that post, we described how a simple Git configuration sped up clone times in one of our…

Automated cluster management and recovery for Rocksplicator

Rocksplicator at Pinterest Rocksplicator (github) was open sourced by Pinterest one and half years ago. It was designed to solve common problems of building large-scale online stateful data systems on commodity hardware, such as RocksDB replication and request routing. Technical details about how Rocksplicator solves…