Miguel MendezinYik Yak EngineeringMigration to Google Cloud Platform — New GeostoreYik Yak’s primary use case is to quickly return the most recent N messages posted, relative to a user’s current location, as bounded by…Mar 13, 20171Mar 13, 20171
Miguel MendezinA Cloud GuruAn Overview of Yik Yak’s Migration to Google Cloud PlatformLearn why Yik Yak created new systems on GCP and how isolation, performance, and cost drove their decision to migrate platformsMar 10, 20171Mar 10, 20171
Miguel MendezinYik Yak EngineeringMigration to Google Cloud Platform — gRPC & grpc-gatewayIn our previous blog post we gave an overview of our migration to Google Cloud Platform from Amazon Web Services. In this post we will…Mar 2, 20174Mar 2, 20174
Miguel MendezinYik Yak EngineeringMigration to Google Cloud Platform — OverviewIn this post we will give an overview of the migration of our platform from AWS to GCP as well as the new systems which were built to…Feb 24, 20173Feb 24, 20173
Miguel MendezinYik Yak EngineeringTest it Now or Regret It Later…In this blog post we will talk about testing. I know, Real Engineers can prove that their code is correct from First Principles so why even…Feb 3, 2017Feb 3, 2017
Miguel MendezinYik Yak EngineeringAWS Code Deploy & Auto Scaling — Is there something better?In this post we will share our experiences using AWS Code Deploy and AWS Auto Scaling and suggest something that might be better.Jan 24, 20171Jan 24, 20171
Miguel MendezinYik Yak EngineeringWhy we moved to Go (Golang)…In this post we will discuss why we made the decision to adopt Go (aka golang) as the standard programming language for backend development…Jan 24, 20172Jan 24, 20172
Miguel MendezinYik Yak EngineeringElasticache for Redis — Not a DatastoreRedis is a popular in-memory data structure store that can be used as a datastore, cache and message broker. There are lots of posts about…Jan 10, 20171Jan 10, 20171
Miguel MendezinYik Yak EngineeringDynamoDB — What you should know…DynamoDB has a lot of desirable traits. It is a NoSQL store with the usual horizontally scalable attributes. You provision and pay for the…Jan 10, 20171Jan 10, 20171
Miguel MendezinYik Yak EngineeringIntro to Re-engineering the YakThe goal of this blog series is to share some of the lessons learned as we evolved Yik Yak from early-stage startup code running in Amazon…Jan 10, 2017Jan 10, 2017