BugSnag Inbox Zero

In Issue #222 I spoke about how I’d love to reach Inbox Zero in our bug tracker. And well…I persevered, and…

I MADE IT! 🥳

This has been years in the making and so I’m delighted to have handled StoryGraph’s most common, persistent bugs once and for all.

Now I’m in a good flow with it, tackling errors each day as they crop up. 💪🏾

Well, most days… 😅

Operation: Stay On Postgres

After our Postgres confidence boost mentioned in the last issue, we’re feeling even more confident now.

Historically, syncing data to too many replica Postgres servers at once would typically cause network issues. And our DevOps platform, Cloud 66, would take all servers offline if we promoted a replica database to be the new primary one. This was a huge cause for concern in the event that we’d need to take such action during our highest-traffic moments, the exact time periods when one database wouldn’t be sufficient.

Over the last couple of weeks, Rob has worked with Cloud 66 so that they can offer built-in cascading replication, a feature that means syncing data across our databases happens in stages in a way that eliminates the two prior issues that we had. 🙌🏾

Top Three Book Club Nominations

I was surprised that not a single person replied to my proposal for a new book club concept! 😢

Well, I was feeling inspired and couldn’t let the idea go so I decided to see if the TSG Instagram crew was interested…

And they were!

So I went ahead and decided to run an experiment:

You’ve got one week to join and leave some category nominations for our first cycle!

Your Fave Language Learning App?

I think I’m done with Pimsleur. I got bored of the French course and I thought perhaps learning a new language would foster some excitement and enthusiasm. But European Portuguese is hard and I’m not sure the Pimsleur lessons are the best format.

On top of that, based on feedback from French speakers and my Portuguese bestie, the language skills I’m learning are rather formal and dated.

Do you have a recommendation for a great app where I can do a little bit every day to improve my intermediate French and pick up conversational basics of European Portuguese and/or Italian?

Still going strong on my French Duolingo streak though!

Founder Q&A

Rob and I did another Instagram Live Founder Q&A!

I’m In A Video Game!

As marketing for his conference, Blastoff Rails, Travis Dockter built a Ruby/Rails Dev-themed game based on the old Pokémon games from the 90s (taking me back to my childhood..).

All of the people in the game are based on real members of our community and he’s included me! 🥹

This is so cool! Thank you, Travis. ☺️

Colorado Love

While on an indie bookstore tour in Denver, Colorado, my friend, Jeremy, came across this in West Side Books & Curios:

What I’m Reading

Jon Krakauer wrote my favourite book of last year — Into Thin Air — so I’ve got high hopes for Where Men Win Glory.

Have a great week,

Nadia