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When we had to scale into billions of dollars of originations and multiple currencies at the same time here at Funding Circle, we chose…

In this blog post, I’ll look at MyRocks performance through some benchmark testing. As the MyRocks storage engine (based on the RocksDB key-value store ) is now available as part of Percona S…

Privacy-preserving analytics is not only possible, but with GDPR about to come online, it will become necessary to incorporate privacy in your data products.

Struggling to become analytics-driven? One or more of these issues is likely what’s holding your organization back.

Tammy Bütow was doing chaos engineering long before Netflix and its poo-throwing monkey gave a name to it. About a decade ago, she worked in a bank on a team that performed disaster recovery testing. But, instead of continuous automated testing, once a quarter hundreds of people crammed in a room and threw the kitchen …

Having to take your application offline for updates can be a pain. You can mitigate this with consistent, scheduled downtime, but it’s not something that brings delight to customers. What’s more, some sites can lose thousands of dollars per minute they’re down. There are many reasons an app can go down, but deploying or upgrading your application shouldn’t be one of them! We have a tool we can use to ensure that our deployments create no downtime: blue/green deployments. What It Is: A Few Wonderful Colors I don’t know who originally decided to use the colors “blue” and “green.” But […]

Every single tech company that operates at a very large scale will tell you about the importance of knowing how to properly handle data…

This talk was presented to developers at Momentum Dev Con covering how to get started with Apache Airflow with examples of custom components like hooks, operators, executors, and plugins. We also cover example DAGs and the Astronomer CLI for Airflow. The talk abstract is available on the conference site (search

What do you really know about how to monitor a Kafka cluster for problems? Is your most reliable monitoring your users telling you there’s something broken? Ar…

What myths surround event-driven architectures, and the truth behind the valuable solution that can provide agility and scalability for software engineers