by Cody Lundquist 
Senior Software Engineer @ Bigcommerce

by Gwilym Evans

In the lead-up to the busy holiday season, we were actively reducing the amount of write operations that go to our MySQL databases, particularly writes which occur frequently where…

by Gwilym Evans
Engineer and beer snob at Bigcommerce. Currently focused on Data projects.

In this post, I’ll introduce you to some Amazon EC2 automation concepts and how they can be…

by Qifeng Zhao

Lately, I’ve been working on optimizing the memory of some of our backend PHP applications and wanted to share some of the tricks that I have come across, especially dealing with large set of data using PHP.

by Patrick Killelea
Principal Performance Engineer

Most system monitoring tools and load test tools output line graphs, where data values are averaged per second or per minute, and the resulting set of averages is then plotted joined with lines.

TechWomen @ Bigcommerce

by Meg Desko
Backend Dev @Bigcommerce

Rewriting our Ruby API Client

by Patrick Edelman
Backend Software Engineer @ Bigcommerce

How we use Elasticsearch

by Pav Zwierzynski

by Meg Desko
Backend Dev @Bigcommerce

Sometimes a team moves so quickly on a project that they end up with a rather large feature branch in a short amount of…

by Tim Ellis
Doing data that’s bigger than most anyone else’s data since 1999. Analytics. Front-end databases. Acronym soup.

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