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How growth-minded engineers directly impact Dovetail’s business

Product teams can play an important role in capturing a larger proportion of the addressable market for a product.

Jan 2

How growth-minded engineers directly impact Dovetail’s business

Jan 2

Dovetail Engineering

Writing safe database migrations

Preventing deadlocks in database migrations, and we’ll have a follow up covering how to write fast(er) database migrations.

Nov 23, 2023

Nov 23, 2023

Dovetail Engineering

AI: A mostly non-technical explanation of what it is and how it works.

A hype-free explanation of how AI works and what it can do.

Jun 30, 2023

AI: A mostly non-technical explanation of what it is and how it works.

Jun 30, 2023

Dovetail Engineering

How to safely create unique indexes in PostgreSQL

Adding unique indexes to existing tables to improve query performance, enforce uniqueness, and/or support upserts.

May 23, 2023

How to safely create unique indexes in PostgreSQL

May 23, 2023

Dovetail Engineering

Yjs Fundamentals — Part 2: Sync & Awareness

In Part 2 of this series, I’ll explain how edits are synced between clients and the server, and how “awareness” works.

Dec 14, 2022

Yjs Fundamentals — Part 2: Sync & Awareness

Dec 14, 2022

Dovetail Engineering

Why Dovetail depends on code generators to make our engineers more efficient

At Dovetail, we rely heavily on the auto-generation of code and types within our development environments and architecture.

Dec 5, 2022

Why Dovetail depends on code generators to make our engineers more efficient

Dec 5, 2022

Dovetail Engineering

Yjs Fundamentals - Part 1: Theory

In this series, I‘ll help you make performance improvements and debug issues with your Yjs implementation. This post focuses on Yjs…

Oct 27, 2022

Oct 27, 2022

Dovetail Engineering

What it’s like juggling parenthood at a fast-moving start-up

As a parent, starting a new job is a daunting prospect. There’s inherently a greater level of risk when you have kids dependent on you.

Sep 16, 2022

What it’s like juggling parenthood at a fast-moving start-up

Sep 16, 2022

Dovetail Engineering

Using PostgreSQL Row-Level Security in a high-growth startup for tenant isolation

We take a somewhat unusual approach to where permissions live within our technical architecture.

Sep 9, 2022

Using PostgreSQL Row-Level Security in a high-growth startup for tenant isolation

Sep 9, 2022

Dovetail Engineering

React hooks, stable references, and performance

In this article, I’m going to explain why I memoize almost all React components, and how you can do it too.

Aug 2, 2022

React hooks, stable references, and performance

Aug 2, 2022

How growth-minded engineers directly impact Dovetail’s business

Product teams can play an important role in capturing a larger proportion of the addressable market for a product.

Writing safe database migrations

Preventing deadlocks in database migrations, and we’ll have a follow up covering how to write fast(er) database migrations.

AI: A mostly non-technical explanation of what it is and how it works.

A hype-free explanation of how AI works and what it can do.

How to safely create unique indexes in PostgreSQL

Adding unique indexes to existing tables to improve query performance, enforce uniqueness, and/or support upserts.

Yjs Fundamentals — Part 2: Sync & Awareness

In Part 2 of this series, I’ll explain how edits are synced between clients and the server, and how “awareness” works.

Why Dovetail depends on code generators to make our engineers more efficient

At Dovetail, we rely heavily on the auto-generation of code and types within our development environments and architecture.

Yjs Fundamentals - Part 1: Theory

In this series, I‘ll help you make performance improvements and debug issues with your Yjs implementation. This post focuses on Yjs…

What it’s like juggling parenthood at a fast-moving start-up

As a parent, starting a new job is a daunting prospect. There’s inherently a greater level of risk when you have kids dependent on you.

Using PostgreSQL Row-Level Security in a high-growth startup for tenant isolation

We take a somewhat unusual approach to where permissions live within our technical architecture.

React hooks, stable references, and performance

In this article, I’m going to explain why I memoize almost all React components, and how you can do it too.

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