Lily Chen

I’m a senior software engineer at Datadog. I write about tech and life.

[Lily Chen @lilychencodes]

I’m happy to share some of the projects my team at @datadoghq (the profiling team) has been working on over the past year. One of our main initiatives is to surface complex performance issues through effective visualization of profiling data.
https://t.co/HzSyhx0Qeb

[Lily Chen @lilychencodes]

My advice for career-driven women who may want kids someday. A mom in tech's perspectives on the biological clock, pregnancy, mom shaming, and career sacrifices.
https://t.co/42KMWXWFsC

[Lily Chen @lilychencodes]

The Chargers just became my favorite #NFL team.

[lindsey ok @lindseyyok]

They put Harrison butker in the kitchen 😩😩😩😩😩

[Lily Chen @lilychencodes]

A little late to the party, but I'm also gonna quote Taylor Swift and say "the smallest man who ever lived" is one who cannot stand a woman who outshines him.
#harrisonbutker

[Lily Chen @lilychencodes]

Came back on Twitter temporarily after a long break to look at all the #harrisonbutker memes 😆

[Lily Chen @lilychencodes]

I can’t stand all the Taylor Swift hate and conservative bull💩 on Twitter. I’m moving to Threads. Bye.

[Lily Chen @lilychencodes]

@mipsytipsy Hi Charity, can you elaborate on this? Do you mean “if a company does not force their EMs to stop touching technology, it’s not in an IC’s career interest to stay?” So it’s usually in the best interest career wise to work for a company with clear eng/people management separation?

[Lily Chen @lilychencodes]

One of my favorite psychological principles is the "Sunk Cost Effect." It likely explains why I just CANNOT quit Duolingo even though learning German is now becoming more of a pain than joy 🤣
I CANNOT GIVE UP MY 160+ days streak!

[Lily Chen @lilychencodes]

This site is such a GEM! Not only does it bring awareness to common psychological principles and human fallacies, it also teaches you how these principles are applied in UX design!
https://t.co/lmEsrt4OxA

[Lily Chen @lilychencodes]

@mipsytipsy Yes! Thank you so much for saying this! In my 10 years in tech, I’ve not had a single great manager who was also an engineer at the same time. It’s very validating because I was starting to wonder “am I the problem?”

[Lily Chen @lilychencodes]

@mipsytipsy And similarly, feeling supported by manager/peers can and has acted as remedy to/prevention from burnout from the reasons you’ve mentioned.

[Lily Chen @lilychencodes]

@mipsytipsy Hi Charity, great list and I agree. I just want to add that as an IC for almost 10 years, nothing has made me lose motivation to work faster than:
1. Lack of empathy from manager.
2. Feeling like I’m being treated unfairly.

[Lily Chen @lilychencodes]

Resolution for 2024: prioritize the right things in life.
What are the right things?
Things that make for a happy life.
Like what?
Basically just good health/mental health and quality relationships with partner, family and friends.

[Lily Chen @lilychencodes]

But also, wow wish I had thought of this earlier before venturing into the wild west of online dating apps trying to find pen pals. Would have saved so much rage from conversations with guys with no EQ.

[Lily Chen @lilychencodes]

Hey @duolingo I can't be the only one with this feature request. Can you build a way to actually have a conversation into the platform? It would significantly enhance the learning environment. FYI ChatGPT works fine for v1.
#Duolingo

[Lily Chen @lilychencodes]

I did a thing! Here's the YouTube link to the talk I did at Open Source Summit last week.
It was both my first time in Japan and first time giving a talk at a conference!
https://t.co/g4ubUu1957

[Lily Chen @lilychencodes]

@Hebro_Steele To quote from John Wick 4: “A man’s ambition should never exceed his worth.” (Applicable not to just those who identify as men). Seems she crossed the line.

[Lily Chen @lilychencodes]

I'm giving a talk on profiling tomorrow at the Open Source Summit in Tokyo! There's a link to the live stream in the event page.
https://t.co/RjMDI6s3rd

[Lily Chen @lilychencodes]

Here's an article on how the Chrome Profiler helps you understand the Javascript event loop.
https://t.co/ddNNlyoeCe

[Lily Chen @lilychencodes]

Profiling is commonly associated with performance optimization, but its applications extend far beyond that. Increasingly, one of the things I’m starting to appreciate more about profiling is that it can help you understand how a language works.

https://t.co/ddNNlyoeCe

[Lily Chen @lilychencodes]

"Intro to Memory Profiling & Chrome DevTools Memory Tab explained"

I finally took some time to write down what I've learned about memory profiling and how the Chrome DevTools' Memory tab works!

https://t.co/QrwK1HS7nj