database
Let me tell you a story about why one should be cautious with databases that track the real world. I play trombone in a local community orchestra . For the past…
Etsy has maintained a sharded MySQL architecture since around 2010. This database cluster contains most of Etsy’s online data and is made up of ~1,000 tables di…
In this episode we discuss Cinchapi and Concourse Database with Jeff Nelson, Cinchapi Founder and CEO. We discuss what Concourse Database is and how Cinchapi ca…
A website deployment should not feel like a risky final step. It should be a repeatable process that lets you test, review, approve, and release changes with fe…
In the previous post, we talked about how we enabled our teams to build microservices in Scala, Clojure, and JRuby without coupling them…
In a previous series of blog posts, we covered our decision to move away from a monolithic architecture, replacing it with microservices, interacting synchronou…
Running software at scale comes with its own challenges. Deepthi Sigireddi, Software Engineer at PlanetScale explained what database scaling consists of. We tal…
Many applications we use are distributed systems. Some examples are ATM systems, social media and currency trading. Depending on the type of application, we mig…
Every year, the US throws out roughly 125 million tennis balls. That's enough to fill 21 Boeing 737s to the brim. And until recently, tennis balls were impossib…
