Tag: scaling

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  Our CTO Sleeps Well At Night

  
  July 30, 2018
  

  I am PacerPro’s chief technical officer, which means that I get the first phone call at 3 am when things go pear-shaped. Fortunately, I don’t get many of those calls: I’ve built a development team and process that delivers reliability as a core feature.

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  Performant Large-Scale Postgres Migrations

  
  November 30, 2016
  

  Recently I tried to add a column to one of our very big tables, and as you might expect from the title of this blog, it took so long that I aborted it after an hour. Can you spot the problem?