Stories by samlambert

Postgres Traffic Control

Migrating Supernova to PlanetScale: Faster APIs, Better Insights

The principles of extreme fault tolerance

Cash App on PlanetScale Metal

The Shell Hater's Handbook (2010)

Evolving Intercom's Database Infrastructure

B-Trees and Database Indexes

If it's not a big number per second then it's not a big number

The problem with using a UUID primary key in MySQL

Database sharding in 200 seconds [video]

Cloudflare Workers vs. AWS Lambda Price-to-Performance Analysis

We tame High Cardinality by Sharding a stream

Developer experience is not a list of features

Performant database tree traversal with Rails

Learn CI/CD

How to Tech Lead and Survive

Sharing an SQLite database across containers is surprisingly brilliant

GitHub Stores 150TB in Vitess

Twitter scaled reads on their user database

AWS Aurora Global Clusters Explained: What you wish they told you

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