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Ultimate Guide to Citus Con: An Event for Postgres, 2023 edition

The Citus Data

(on-demand talk, Citus open source user) 6 Citus engineering talks Citus & Patroni: The Key to Scalable and Fault-Tolerant PostgreSQL , by Alexander Kukushkin who is a principal engineer at Microsoft and lead engineer for Patroni.

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What it’s like to be a backend engineer at Netlify

Netlify

When we talk with engineering candidates, it’s pretty easy to explain what our frontend and Node.js But did you know that a big chunk of Netlify’s engineering team is in the backend? Team: Account Management. Team: Serverless Apps. developers do, because it’s the things you interact with every day. Pronouns: He/him.

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Serverless; the next big thing

The Agile Monkey

The technology that will change how we build backend systems forever TL;DR: Serverless is a new approach to backend software development, where new systems can be created out of existing third-party services and tools using lambda functions to glue them together. Serverless is an evolution of the microservices concept. Contact us!

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The Good and the Bad of Snowflake Data Warehouse

Altexsoft

This demand gave birth to cloud data warehouses that offer flexibility, scalability, and high performance. With Snowflake, multiple data workloads can scale independently from one another, serving well for data warehousing, data lakes , data science, data sharing, and data engineering. Great performance and scalability.

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The Case for Minimalist Infrastructure

Stacks on Stacks

Every engineering manager should have a ratio in their head of work hours spent in their organization on software engineering vs other related tasks (ops, QA, product management, etc…). We had spent much more people-hours on security and ops than on development. This should never happen.

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UK COVID-19 dashboard built using Postgres and Citus for millions of users

The Citus Data

In June of 2020, Pouria’s team was in the midst of architecting and evolving a more scalable system to power the application. Namely, Citus is only available as a managed database service on Azure—and the team neither had the time nor the staffing to deploy and manage the database themselves. And things are faster.

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