Stories by simonw

Britecharts v2.0 released – open source D3 charting library

Introducing Britecharts: Eventbrite’s reusable charting library based on D3

How We Implement Disaster Recovery and High Availability with Postgres at Citus

Ask HN: Is there a good Node.js equivalent of ipython?

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

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