Top Stories published by Carwow Product, Design & Engineering in 2016

Unloading a file from Redshift to S3 (with headers)

Couple of months ago, we started using Redshift to solve a couple of scaling problems: we needed a super fast datastore for our BI team to run heavy reports on and also start decoupling our production and reporting databases.


ActiveRecord “ERROR: cached plan must not change result type”

As part of gradual refactoring we are undertaking here at carwow, we wanted to split a fairly large Rails app up into two smaller apps. Rather than do this as one big refactor, we chose to make things more manageable and…


Scheduled Postgres to Redshift copy with a simple Heroku App

Previously I told you why we use Redshift at carwow for faster business intelligence. I’m now going to show you how to achieve that with little effort.

These were the top 10 stories published by Carwow Product, Design & Engineering in 2016. You can also dive into monthly archives for 2016 by using the calendar at the top of this page.