In November 2020 we began a large migration to upgrade our PostgreSQL cluster from version 9.6 to 12.4. In…
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One fateful evening at 7p.m. our error rates began to spike. Inserts on our Postgres database were erring out and we were shocked to find our error logs overloaded with…
Databases and their limitations can be the source of interesting engineering challenges. One such challenge we recently faced as a team was dealing with the limitation of the int datatype on an auto incrementing primary key for a fast growing table in…
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In my previous post, I discussed the importance of monitoring tables to ensure we don’t unknowingly hit database limits and different approaches for performing a Primary Key migration, including time estimates based…
Technical blog posts are often about issues or problems that are intricate, challenging, and/or visionary.
This post is about a problem that’s simple, easy to fix, and worthy of slapping your forehead. It’s a story about a bug happening at…
One of the most common questions that interview candidates ask when they interview here at Coffee Meets Bagel is, “What is your tech stack?” It’s also one of the most common questions I get around San Francisco while attending tech meetups and conferences and such…
