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Damn. I hope they keep it on life support rather than shut it down. It's a really delightful piece of software that I use every day

Yes. Probably depends on the exact noise. I've used them to good effect on planes and when sleeping beside a snoring person.

That is a very concise summary! I still think the examples and detail are useful to explain how we do that at Intercom, rather than simply issuing a statement :)

I’m humbled that you read our post! We love your work, and heavily use Redis at Intercom. Thank you :) The DynamoDB move is certainly a tradeoff, but for us it really makes sense. …

Operating such services in a fairly static production environment is indeed simple, though in many cases I suspect it’s wasted effort that could be better spent elsewhere. In our (…

It’s certainly nowhere near as full featured. But in our case it is entirely appropriate. Over time we simplified our use of MongoDB to the stage where it’s effectively a k/v store…

We (Intercom) are hiring ops engineers in San Francisco and Dublin: https://www.intercom.io/jobs/ops We've lots of interesting things to work on, including: * Spliting our monolith…