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Bethink

Using Continuous Integration pipeline to guard against database performance regressions

Is the code the only measure of the quality of changes we’re merging?

Feb 15, 2021

Using Continuous Integration pipeline to guard against database performance regressions

Feb 15, 2021

Maciej Brencz
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Bethink

How we reduced our application response times by 80% without touching a single line of code

As I mentioned in my previous blog post, our e-learning platform traffic varies heavily over time. It reaches its peak just before the…

Jan 12, 2021

How we reduced our application response times by 80% without touching a single line of code

Jan 12, 2021

Maciej Brencz
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Tales Written  On Island

Forget me not

Eugenia and Albert grew up together. As children of the sea they were keeping each other company, staying alone for long hours.

Nov 14, 2020

Forget me not

Nov 14, 2020

Maciej Brencz
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Bethink

Our journey towards better application performance (part 1)

Bethink’s e-learning platform traffic varies heavily over time. It reaches its peak just before the final exams. This is a really…

Jul 9, 2020

Our journey towards better application performance (part 1)

Jul 9, 2020

Maciej Brencz
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Fandom Engineering

MySQL diary #5: Querying the database master and why you should consider asking a slave

Database performance optimisation is an endless journey.

Mar 19, 2019

MySQL diary #5: Querying the database master and why you should consider asking a slave

Mar 19, 2019

Maciej Brencz
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Fandom Engineering

MySQL diary #4: Defer your work

One of the rules that should be applied when developing a feature or fixing a bug (however, try to avoid it in your real life ;)) is “if…

Mar 18, 2019

MySQL diary #4: Defer your work

Mar 18, 2019

Maciej Brencz
in
Fandom Engineering

MySQL diary #3: the tale of lagging databases, transactions and primary keys

Back in 2016 we were dealing with an issue with lagging slave on one of our database clusters. Interestingly, this problem was only…

Mar 11, 2019

Mar 11, 2019

Maciej Brencz
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Fandom Engineering

MySQL diary #2: indexes good practices

Why a good table schema and properly defined indexes are important?

Mar 4, 2019

MySQL diary #2: indexes good practices

Mar 4, 2019

Maciej Brencz
in
Fandom Engineering

Turning wiki content into a graph for football fans

Football Wiki is an extensive database of everything football fan can be interested in. It describes teams, players, managers, cup finals…

Feb 15, 2019

Turning wiki content into a graph for football fans

Feb 15, 2019

Maciej Brencz

Building graph of artists and their songs from internet radio playlist — part 1

As an avid fan of Faroe Islands I quite frequently listen to Kringvarp Føroya radio station via internet stream. As an engineer I am also…

Feb 11, 2019

Building graph of artists and their songs from internet radio playlist — part 1

Feb 11, 2019

Maciej Brencz

Maciej Brencz

Poznaniak z dziada-pradziada, pasjonat swojego rodzinnego miasta i Dalekiej Północy / Enjoys investigating how software works under the hood

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