Founder of Specific (YC F25). Previously Stripe and MongoDB.
There is no doubt that Europe has fallen behind in the AI race, with the US constantly releasing new frontier models and China nipping at…
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…