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I led the engineering team at Fauna and this is false - we had a performance culture and performance managed/exited people when they did not meet expectations. I've managed some ou…

James Governor interviews Tyson Trautmann and Matt Freels from Fauna about the document-relational paradigm and the future of databases.

League sharded players to geographic regions and didn't allow matches between players in different regions. Geographic location wasn't a consideration in matchmaking otherwise AFAI…

Nice catch! I investigated this today with the team and we realized that metrics from a dev environment (which isn't representative of our production topology) were being included …

To add a bit of color from the author, the content in the article was informed by my experience building distributed systems at Microsoft, Amazon, and Riot Games. At Riot we sharde…

That's fair. I actually think that learning to gamify things is a valuable skill of it's own (and a very effective one if you're a gamer like you or I!). Example: I bike to work do…