1. Advanced Website Search Options This enhancement helps advanced users of Chrome and Google to search your website with an entry point being Google or Chrome. It eventually opens your Website Search Page From Google Search If you search Github on Google you will get to see a search bar right in the results. This is powered by…

Numbers — 57+ DBs, 60+ S3 buckets, 12+ CloudFront instances, 3 DB Instances, 5 different projects, 4 different programming languages and more than 10 frameworks. — Background YourStory Media is a digital media publication which champions startups and businesses in India since 2008. Technologies needed and used by Media houses have evolved dramatically in the last 10 yrs. When I joined YourStory in 2017 with the acqui-hire of Odiocast, I inherited a mixed stack. It looked something…

This is based on my learnings with running docker-compose in production serving millions of users — Managing infrastructure can be painful and especially when you want to optimize for cost and performance with a lean team. It would not have been possible without adopting new technologies like Docker. With docker compose you can run multiple services on a single instance and effectively use CPU and memory…

CloudSearch is a managed service provided by AWS. We used AWS Lambdas, Step Functions to get the data from Firebase and move it to CloudSearch — Firebase does not provide an inherent way to search the data that you store. You either use ElasticSearch with their open source project Flashlight or depend on Full Text comparison. In this post we talk about how to simplify that using AWS Cloud Search For those who are not familiar…

In this post I will describe how we at Odiocast efficiently used server side fanouts leveraging Firebase Functions and Realtime Database — In October of 2015, Firebase team published an article which described how to use client side fanout, where you write or send one object to the server and the server rather than writing several times to different database locations. One such use case is a feed for a social network.

Listen to this on Odiocast.com Why we used Firebase by abhisheknandi We took Firebase for a spin to build our prototype of Odiocast.com. There are some pros and cons to using firebase and…www.odiocast.com Today I am going to tell you why we used firebase when building Odiocast.com Prior to building Odiocast.com, Ravi and me were crunching numbers and running fancy queries to derive insights at PureMetrics.io our earlier venture. We were running on top of Google Cloud Platform…

This article is aimed at users using the Amplitude Starter Plan, CleverTap or Mixpanel. In the Amplitude starter plan users do not have direct SQL access to their data, monthly accounting and behavioral cohorts which are only available for a premium price of $2000/month (phew thats expensive). …

Facebook is a platform which has more information of you than even you can remember or recall. They can simply try anything, be it a marketplace or marketing tools. With emoji they can do sentiment analysis to say whether you Love a Dog or Like a Dog. …

This article is part of a series of articles mentioning some important metrics and you should capture for your android app. Everyone looks at the total number of downloads, Monthly and Daily Accounting numbers, but have you every tried to see if your app is getting downloaded from places other…