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How Pinterest delivers software at scale

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

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Unpopular Opinion - Working With Non-Type Languages

Working with non-type languages can be a nightmare, especially as your code base grows. You really need solid unit tests for everything down to input parameter validation. I think it becomes really easy to accidentally introduce some bugs. One of my friends in the past who worked at Pinterest introduced one bug where they accidentally reused a variable that was defined elsewhere.

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