The iOS Developer Who Picked Nomad Over Kubernetes for Yext's 2,000 Services
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Tom Elliott joined Yext in 2015 as an iOS developer. Within a year, both his mobile projects were canceled.
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When IBM Killed Our Database
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Just 2 years into his first “real” engineering job, Andy was running the engineering team. And a RethinkDB was a ticking time bomb.
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When the Wrong Tool is the Right Choice: PagerDuty's Cassandra Queue
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In 2011, PagerDuty was using MySQL as a queue. If you just winced, you understand the problem.
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Rebuilding a YC Real Estate Tech Stack from the Ground Up
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"This is the most atypical job I’ve ever had—and I worked at WeWork."
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'“We Should Be Able to Drain an AZ': Slack's Cellular Architecture
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Slack didn’t go down—but it came close, twice in a single day. Every service needed to be out of that AWS AZ.
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Slack's 6am Database Club
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Slack didn’t plan this migration in advance. It started because IBM was breaking the system.
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Why Every Migration Feels Different (and what to do about it)
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You’d think migrations would be repeatable. But even the same teams, doing the same upgrade, don't always do the same work.
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Making the Donuts: Stabilizing memcached at Slack's Scale
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Slack’s memcached mostly worked — until it didn’t. Glen Sanford turned it from brittle and unowned to one of Slack’s most stable systems.
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Ratcheting Progress: How Lyft Migration 150+ Services from Python 2 to 3
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What does it take to migrate 150 services to Python 3? At Lyft, the answer wasn’t just automation.
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What Litigation Teaches Us About Security Operations
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Mike, a cybersecurity lawyer, works with companies after the worst has happened—ransomware, exfiltration, and worse.
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Outscaling ElasticSearch at Datadog: Upgrading the Core Datastore
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Datadog’s observability platform was expanding rapidly, and they needed a new foundation. Enter Husky, their new columnar store, and a 3-year migration.
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5 Versions Behind, 4 Databases to Merge: Upgrading Postgres with Ninad Pundalik
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When Postgres 11 approached end-of-life, Ninad stepped in to upgrade a site with multiple Rails apps, multiple DB instances, and no in-house infra team.
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Quitting CoffeeScript? First, Teach Everybody Typescript
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If you were writing frontend code in 2013, you probably used CoffeeScript too. Hal Anil describe's Braze's journey to React and Typescript.
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Migrate or die: overhauling the service catalog
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A deep dive on Matt Ouille's service catalog migration at scale
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Why your CTO hates migrations
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Ryan and I met at Slack. All we did was migrations.
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