sunlight makes me sneeze, founding engineer @knocklabs
brooklyn, ny
Joined March 2011
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Billy Ceskavich retweeted
It’s day one of launch week @knocklabs and we’re starting things off with a bang.
Introducing Knock Agent Toolkit.
Agent Toolkit exposes Knock’s APIs as tools to your AI agents so you can effortlessly build cross-channel agent to user messaging flows.
Billy Ceskavich retweeted
Announcing Knock launch week.
Next week: Apr 28 - May 2.
Sign up for updates at knock.app/launch-week
Billy Ceskavich retweeted
We're looking for exceptional Product Engineers to join us @knocklabs.
We're a team that loves to ship high-quality product in a high-ownership environment.
More details 👉: jobs.ashbyhq.com/knock/1a786…
Billy Ceskavich retweeted
Today we’re excited to announce two major additions to Knock in-app messaging: in-app messaging components and in-app message types (BYO UI to Knock.)
With these releases you can power all of your in-app messaging—transactional, product announcements, lifecycle—through Knock in a performant, native way.
Here’s more on what we’re releasing today 👇
Billy Ceskavich retweeted
I live in a city where installing a subway elevator needs funding from Macy’s and gets its own opening ceremony; where containerized bins from the 70’s are seen as a revolutionary innovation. It’s a real mystery why people are fed up with democratic urban governance.
Sometimes you need to text the group chat like you're updating your Facebook status in 2009.
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Billy Ceskavich retweeted
My favorite Eric Adams story is this one from Curbed where they tried to prove he actually lived in NYC by staking out his house for a week.
He came home twice, parked in front of a garage, and when he left, there was traffic, so he drove on the sidewalk.
curbed.com/2021/11/eric-adam…
As an Underhill Ave resident I’d be devastated if these two programs were cancelled. I love open streets and the Underhill redesign. Plz don’t do this @NYCMayor @NYCMayorsOffice @NYCComptroller
Eric Adams had a closed-door meeting with opponents of @vanderbiltbk open streets and the Underhill bike boulevard. He’s having an RSVP-only meeting about this on Monday. I expect he’s gearing up to kill these two forward-looking and successful street use programs.
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Here's me talking about a fun little performance tuning problem I got to dig into at work a couple months ago 🤓
💾@ceskavich hacked our Postgres driver to get us better visibility into expensive transactions in RDS.
A few months ago, we started to see increased database pressure but found that RDS Performance Insights didn’t give us the granularity we needed to address the issue.
Here's how we solved it.
Billy Ceskavich retweeted
At Knock, we use AWS Kinesis for high throughput queues, like API & workflow logging features.
But we had a “hotspot” problem where too many Kinesis consumers would bind to a single Kubernetes pod during deployments.
Let @brentjanderson explain how he balanced these deploys:
