Over 14 years experience shipping software at scale to millions of people. Formerly worked and managed engineering teams at Coinbase, Apple, Meta.
Deploying on a Friday afternoon is always a gamble. Last Friday, we pushed what seemed like a routine front-end update, until users started reporting errors. A null object slipped through, breaking part of the UI. Normally, this would trigger a bunch of Sentry alerts. But Sentry alerts are noisy, and
Do you have a Rails app built on PostgreSQL and need to scale it to millions of users? In this interview, I speak with Andrew Atkinson, one of StepChange's expert consultants, who brings deep expertise in optimizing Rails applications for performance and scalability. Andrew’s expertise is backed
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Are you thinking about migrating a Native mobile app to React Native or building one from scratch? Are you interested in hearing lessons learned from migrating Coinbase's 56 million users from Native to React Native? Nick Cherry, an Expert React Native developer and former Software Engineer at Coinbase,
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In this interview, I talk with Justin Watt, the founder of Switchboard, a consultancy focused on automation solutions, about how his company helps businesses automate their processes and workflows. Before founding Switchboard, Justin worked at IBM on large-scale government projects and at MetaLab with clients like Amazon and Uber. His
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Are you thinking about building a polished AI powered app to explore a large data set? Worried about how to handle data accuracy issues? Do you want to know the pro's and con's of using pgvector with Postgres over a dedicated vector store? Are you interested
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Do you have a Django app built on Postgres that needs to use geospatial data? Want to know how to scale it to millions of users using Postgres? In this article, I interview Ananth Chandrasekharan about the challenges Nextdoor faced while scaling its Django application, which made heavy use of
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Do you have a Django app built on Postgres? Want to know how to scale it to 10 million users using AWS Aurora? Luke Demi, is an expert software engineer who helped scale Clubhouse’s backend infrastructure from 10 thousand users to 10 million users in 6 months. In this
TL;DR: Amazon Aurora extends PostgreSQL with better scalability and performance, enabling efficient autoscaling and Serverless options. However, it faces challenges with complex pricing and vendor lock-in. This article helps navigate those issues. Introduction As your PostgreSQL application grows in scale, whether you choose to self-host or opt for a
Current AI evaluation metrics fail to represent many aspects of real-world software engineering tasks. Introduction AI software engineers like Devin and SWE-agent are frequently compared to human software engineers. However SWE-bench, the benchmark upon which this comparison is made, only applies to Python tasks, most of which involve making single-file
StepChange is a consultancy that works with you to modernize your data infrastructure. Often this involves optimizing cloud spend. Recently there has been a lot of conversation about dbt. This article hopes to clarify what it is and how people are dealing with their price increases. What is DBT? Data
The following blog post was inspired by Astronomer's webinar on how to migrate from Oozie to Airflow by Ben Spivey and Dylan Storey. Many enterprises are looking to migrate from Apache Oozie to Airflow. For those who may not know, Apache Oozie is an established open-source workflow scheduler