Stories by simonw

Parallel indexing in Citus – CREATE INDEX on PostgreSQL across many machines

A literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database (2009)

Eventbrite branches out into reserved seating with drag-and-drop seating charts

Lanyrd: From idea to exit – the story of our startup

Lanyrd's new speaker directory – 70,000+ speakers categorised by topics

Drew Houston’s morph from hacker to hyper-growth CEO

Unicorn: A System for Searching the Social Graph [pdf]

MVC is not a helpful analogy for Django

Introducing Lanyrd Pro, for companies that speak at and sponsor events

Messaging at Scale at Instagram (video + slides from PyCon)

So you want to write an interpreter? Slides+video from Alex Gaynor's PyCon talk

We've just shipped LinkedIn integration for Lanyrd

How Lanyrd moved from AWS to SoftLayer and MySQL to PostgreSQL with no downtime

Lanyrd: the early days - honest story of our startup's launch

Track topics (and places) on Lanyrd for smarter conference & event suggestions

Microsoft's Lost Decade

Using iOS push notifications to provide "push this page to your iPhone"

Google+ ripple diagram shows the spread of an article over time

How to start and run an evening event, with tips from UK tech event organisers

Lanyrd no longer requires write access to your Twitter account

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