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…
In November 2020 we began a large migration to upgrade our PostgreSQL cluster from version 9.6 to 12.4. In…
Hello and welcome to our tech blog at Coffee Meets Bagel! At CMB, we are passionate about technology, we are passionate about learning, and of course we’re passionate about helping people fall in love. The purpose of this blog will be to share interesting things that we’ve…
The heart of Coffee Meets Bagel is the data we collect and analyze. We use the data you provide in your…
We run a lot of asynchronous tasks at Coffee Meets Bagel, and as such, we need some sort of queuing system(s) to manage them. Two years ago, when I started working for the company, our primary task management system was Celery. Present day, we have largely…
Hi! My name is Brian and I work as a part of the CMB Android team. Recently at CMB, we’ve been refactoring our code to conform to our form of the Model View Presenter (MVP) paradigm. This ongoing project, which requires a major overhaul of our current architecture has…
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…
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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