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Automating Wordpress Autoptimize Cache Deletion

Automating Wordpress Autoptimize Cache Deletion

Over 30% of the sites across the web are believed to be on WordPress (source). To keep those sites running buttery smooth, a lot of…
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Nitish Goel
Configure Postgres statement_timeout from within Django

Configure Postgres statement_timeout from within Django

In a bid to prepare ourselves for projected growth, we are at the moment trying to figure out what part of our system will break at what…
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Ketan Bhatt
8 system design principles I learned after doing it wrong more than 50 times!

8 system design principles I learned after doing it wrong more than 50 times!

At Squad, we strive to build awesome products to solve external (customer) as well as internal (team) needs. As a product engineer, the…
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Priyank Verma
One Class Classification for Images with Deep features

One Class Classification for Images with Deep features

Originally published on HackerNoon
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Aniket Bhatnagar
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Two years with Celery in Production: Bug Fix Edition

Two years with Celery in Production: Bug Fix Edition

As mentioned in an earlier post, we rely on Celery for publishing and consuming tasks to/from our RabbitMQ (RMQ) broker. We are very happy…
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Ketan Bhatt
Setting up Highly Available RMQ cluster on AWS

Setting up Highly Available RMQ cluster on AWS

Task queue or message brokers accept and forward messages. They act like a post office. Task queues manage background work that can be…
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Aniket Bhatnagar
Blazingly fast querying on huge tables by avoiding joins

Blazingly fast querying on huge tables by avoiding joins

Tl;dr: Avoid joins on large tables and evaluate parts of queries beforehand to get 100–10,000x performance gains!
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Ketan Bhatt
Estimated counts for faster Django Admin change_list

Estimated counts for faster Django Admin change_list

Short story of how we reduced the response time of some of our admin pages by 1000x.
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Ketan Bhatt
Leveraging AWS Lambda for Image Compression at scale

Leveraging AWS Lambda for Image Compression at scale

A lot of problems we solve at Squad deal with images. Images to be tagged, labeled, moderated, transcribed etc. And there is this thing…
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Ketan Bhatt
Custom Sentry Client for more freedom: How to ignore any exception you want

Custom Sentry Client for more freedom: How to ignore any exception you want

We use Sentry for our error reporting, and we love it. It is simple, gives options for a lot of different use cases, and can easily be…
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Ketan Bhatt
Squad takes the Joel test

Squad takes the Joel test

Considering that the Joel test dates back to the turn of the century, a time when Pentium III was state of the art and Linux was still…
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Kevin Martin Jose
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