The One-Woman Dev Team Diaries #201
A database infrastructure reversion, automating our giveaways platform, a conference talk, and incoming solo coffee and reading dates. ☕️ 📚
Solo Coffee Dates Incoming…
Thank you so much to everyone who bought me a coffee (or several) over the last couple of weeks! 🫶🏾
For now, I’ve decided to exclusively put the money towards solo coffee and reading dates (as opposed to grabbing coffee on-the-go), so the pot will incentivise me to take myself out more to do just that! ☺️
Back To Postgres…
Remember when we thought moving over to distributed database infrastructure would solve all of our problems? 👀
Well, it did help us stay up during our January influx, supporting over 12k concurrent users, with the app performing relatively well…
…but for day-to-day usage, performance has been, on average, slower for everyone. 😔
And in the process of attempting to speed the app up, we’ve learnt so much more about how it behaves at peak times, scaling database infrastructure, and optimising queries, that we think our best bet…
..is to go back to the setup we had before. 😅
And so, that’s what we’re going to be doing real soon.
Wish us luck! 🍀
Automating Giveaways
I made a lot of progress in automating the checks and publishing of giveaways.
This saves a lot of Abbie’s time and gets us closer to the platform’s official launch, which I really want to happen this year. 🤞🏾
Brighton Ruby
A couple weeks ago, I spoke at Brighton Ruby, organised by my friend, Andy Croll.
I delivered the final instalment of my Ruby Private Investigator series of talks. 🕵🏾♀️
A video will come out at some point…but if you want to see what will always likely be the best delivery of the talk, check out my RubyConf 2024 Closing Keynote.
What I'm reading
I read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer last year and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn earlier this year in preparation for my read of Percival Everett’s James, which I have finally started!
Have a great week,
Nadia