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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
By examining real-world scenarios encountered at Coinbase and Nextdoor, this post presents a technical exploration of these challenges, offering guidance to teams seeking to enhance their database operations.
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