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Disclaimer: I worked with Johanna on this I had a lot of fun “long tail whackamoling” our way through edge queries that our model of “this is eligible for a read replica” wasn’t ac…

Building higher-touch AI products that are applicable across the entire customer base of an existing enterprise SaaS provider on release does feel impossible. It's very obvious whe…

(Full disclosure, I work at incident.io!) We recently released our On-call product, and as part of that, had to think a lot about redundancy and 'failing safety'. Here's how we ach…

Yes - it is!

(Full disclosure, I work at incident.io!) We recently released our On-call product, and as part of that, had to build a mobile app. We'd noticed there's been some debate recently r…

Found this comment (from Fivetran's CEO, so, with that in mind) regarding this article enlightening regarding the costs they were facing here https://twitter.com/frasergeorgew/stat…

Were Prequel using RaabitMQ to stay cloud platform agnostic when spinning up new environments? Always wondered how companies that offer managed services on the customers cloud like…

Having the type system this complicated is mostly for library builders, makes the developer experience of tools like tRPC, Zod and Prisma possible. An engineer writing business log…

I think it makes sense in the context of the poential of plain old SQL (and additions such as dbt) winning out vs Python or other general purpose programming solutions as the analy…

Totally agree - in fact from the issues pages it seemed like there had been a conscious decision from Airbyte not to support a Terraform provider and instead build out Octavia, whi…

Switched to Fivetran after experiences with Airbyte, operating Airbyte was extremely tedious, even primetime connectors had bugs that I personally had to fix, we keep Airbyte aroun…

Which Lambda competitors (which aren't v8 isolate based) don't have cold starts?

They acknowledge it is based off Noria[1] in the longer blogpost [1] https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/noria:osdi18.pdf

It is popular in newgen tooling but I feel its more a function of the slowness of `tsc` than anything else. I get why `tsc` is slow, and have a lot of respect for the team and the …

https://technical.ly/startups/dbt-labs-series-c/ They changed their name semi-recently to dbt Labs

I feel the biggest PaaS offerrings in Europe are internal deployments within the enterprise!

Those algorithms and improvements in large data processing got bundled away into a platform/infra layer a developer or user interfaces with unaware of what's going on in the backgr…

Hosting any significantly scaled CI/CD system is very difficult work and since every team in your organisation usually touches it you often have a large blast radius. I've seen dow…

You can trivially resolve this with Organisations now, multi-account is incredibly common even within environments, it's a smart isolation boundary.

If you drop a 'title' column from a users table, for example, you can revert and have the title column reappear with the dropped data, new users added during this time (while the c…

They aren't shutting down? Bandcamp's model is so directly connected to DRM free lossless downloads it'd be an incredibly bold decision to remove it.