drob

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• Hiring for expertise you don't have

  by drob on 10/28/2021, 8:38 PM with 0 comments

• Don't do a hack week; do a ship week

  by drob on 9/24/2021, 8:07 PM with 0 comments

• Pseudo-R²: A Metric for Quantifying Interestingness

  by drob on 8/26/2021, 4:59 PM with 2 comments

• Accidentally exponential behavior in Spark

  by drob on 6/21/2021, 6:54 PM with 33 comments

• Query Optimization in Postgres with Pg_stat_statements

  by drob on 2/19/2021, 9:39 PM with 0 comments

• Applying Textbook Data Structures for Real Life Wins

  by drob on 10/13/2020, 12:28 AM with 32 comments

• Using Babel transforms to inject analytics code at build time

  by drob on 7/6/2020, 5:46 PM with 14 comments

• Using Babel transforms to inject analytics code in React Native apps

  by drob on 6/25/2020, 8:13 PM with 0 comments

• How we failed, then succeeded, at migrating to TypeScript

  by drob on 10/11/2019, 9:15 PM with 57 comments

• Redesigning Heap Without a Feature Branch

  by drob on 4/12/2019, 8:13 PM with 3 comments

• Shipping a Visual Refresh Continuously

  by drob on 4/10/2019, 11:13 PM with 1 comments

• Building a Live Data Visualization in 4 Days Using Redis Pub/Sub

  by drob on 3/4/2019, 11:27 PM with 0 comments

• Finding a Better Way to Interview Engineers

  by drob on 9/28/2018, 11:07 PM with 0 comments

• Running a database on EC2? Your clock could be slowing you down

  by drob on 9/21/2018, 8:20 PM with 92 comments

• Running a database on EC2? Your clock could be slowing you down

  by drob on 9/19/2018, 11:36 PM with 1 comments

• How We Found a Missing Scala Class

  by drob on 9/12/2018, 11:03 PM with 43 comments

• Making Our APIs Solid, by Breaking Them in Production

  by drob on 3/23/2018, 6:11 PM with 1 comments

• How to Structure Permissions in a SaaS App

  by drob on 1/5/2018, 10:29 PM with 0 comments

• Decrypting PgBouncer’s Diagnostic Information

  by drob on 12/30/2017, 1:04 AM with 0 comments

• Redshift Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

  by drob on 3/16/2017, 9:09 PM with 3 comments

• When to Avoid JSONB in a PostgreSQL Schema

  by drob on 9/1/2016, 5:23 PM with 0 comments

• Writing Postgres Extensions

  by drob on 10/22/2015, 4:56 AM with 0 comments

• Speeding Up PostgreSQL with Partial Indexes

  by drob on 12/10/2014, 5:46 PM with 27 comments

• PostgreSQL’s New LATERAL Join Type

  by drob on 12/2/2014, 7:18 PM with 39 comments

• How to Eradicate a Disease

  by drob on 11/12/2014, 3:29 PM with 0 comments

• Hackers Access at Least 100,000 Snapchat Photos and Prepare to Leak Them

  by drob on 10/10/2014, 3:54 PM with 2 comments

• A Chilling Medical Trial

  by drob on 6/9/2014, 8:36 PM with 0 comments

• Matrix Sketching

  by drob on 4/2/2014, 5:43 AM with 0 comments

• Creating PostgreSQL Arrays Without A Quadratic Blowup

  by drob on 3/27/2014, 4:49 PM with 15 comments

• Great American Interchange

  by drob on 3/17/2014, 6:35 AM with 0 comments

• Using PostgreSQL Arrays The Right Way

  by drob on 2/25/2014, 11:11 PM with 38 comments

• Our pricing model was broken. Here's how we fixed it

  by drob on 12/10/2013, 7:56 PM with 23 comments

• Finally, A Bill To End Patent Trolling

  by drob on 10/24/2013, 1:30 AM with 62 comments

• Richard Hamming: You And Your Research (1986)

  by drob on 10/13/2013, 8:34 PM with 0 comments

• Soup Tasting

  by drob on 10/6/2013, 7:18 AM with 0 comments