I’m not writing in Rust on a daily basis, but I have been very excited about it for a while. Rust is an extremely…
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01 February 2016
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When the company you work for grows the same way carwow is, your tech team will…
I was 22. Imagine you’re on a sailing boat with your father, you woke up at 5 in the morning, in the…
Recently at carwow we worked on importing and processing a big quantity of data, and for some steps of the importer we needed to use the UPSERT feature, which was introduced in PostgreSQL only in version 9.5, while other databases like MySQL already had it for a while.
Most Rails apps start life with a single relational database (generally PostgreSQL or MySQL), which are great for many purposes, but can get pretty slow when doing unstructured searches over huge datasets. When you hit this kind of problem, it’s time…
