Founder of Specific (YC F25). Previously Stripe and MongoDB.
Turning the revered Postgres into a distributed database is a tall order but not a new idea. It has been done in many different ways with…
I recently released a new version of Reshape, a tool for automating zero-downtime schema migrations in Postgres. I’m quite excited about…
Renaming a field in your database is perhaps the most fundamental schema change, yet doing so safely is really hard with most databases…
I’ve been working on a tool called Reshape which aims to automate zero-downtime schema migrations for Postgres. The main thing I aspire for…
About six months back, I wrote a post on how to use views in Postgres to encapsulate tables and create a versioned interface to a database…
Schema migrations are tricky, especially when planned downtime is not an option. Changes need to be carefully designed to stay backwards…
The decorator pattern is a convenient way of extending functionality with minimal changes to existing code. The basic premise is to create…
Apple recently open-sourced FoundationDB, two years after acquiring the company and depriving the world of some promising technology…
Like many developers I constantly find myself taking up new programming languages. The learning process is often refreshing and challenging…